Understanding the Limits of AI: Why ChatGPT Is Not Conscious or Emotional

The Science Behind AI

The Secret Developer
4 min readFeb 17, 2023
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There’s so much misinformation about current Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability. ChatGPT is a language model powered by machine learning and WILL NEVER be conscious or emotional like a human being.

That means you are safe typing your recipe ideas for your leftovers into Bing. I’m not judging you.

Here’s why, and here is what we can learn

Just because we don’t understand consciousness, doesn’t mean ChatGPT is conscious

Current language models aren’t modelled after the human brain. They work nothing like the human brain. We don’t understand what consciousness is, so the hope that we will create conscious machines is for the birds.

Ask the experts at Brown (source). At its most basic level, explains Ellie Pavlick (Assistant professor of computer science at Brown and a research scientist at Google A.I.), ChatGPT is a machine learning model designed to predict the next word in a sentence, the next word, and so on.

ChatGPT is a simple model which predicts the next word in a sentence.

It can’t predict my next word. TIGER

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