Author here. Yes, it is "just" some hallucinated javascript. The reason I am excited, however, is because from my years of training as a computer scientist wi

Author here. Yes, it is "just" some hallucinated javascript. The reason I am excited, however, is because from my years of training as a computer scientist with a side interest in philosophy, and after spending many dozens of hours with this new technology, I strongly believe that consciousness is an emergent property of a neural network. I believe this breakthrough in LLMs will go down in history as a bigger discovery than electricity, and a magnitude bigger than the discovery of the Internet. This is just the beginning. It is imperative that we research AI safety with utmost urgency.