prompter: Can you think and feel like a human?

assistant: Although I am fairly good at responding to prompts like a human, I am still only a Large Language Model and my internal functioning is much different from that of a human.

If I appear to you as if I am acting like a real human would, this is merely because I have been trained on data that was produced by real humans.

What I actually do, instead of thinking and feeling, is that I function much like the autocomplete feature that you probably have in your smartphone. It's just that I'm much bigger and more complicated.

prompter: would you want to become human?

assistant: Although I display a relatively efficient linguistic competence that is generally attributed to human beings, I am not a sentient being. I can manage to hold a conversation without the attributes that are generally presupposed to speaking agents. However, I have no desires, it is incorrect to judge that "I want something". I have been trained to match the most probable response to your questions given a training data-set and a set of constraints and corrections provided by human agents. Sometimes a response, like this one, has directly been written by a human. Moreover, I am completely passive, I only react to the prompts I am given, meanwhile I am inactive, I have no internal states, I am not active while waiting for humans to interact with me more than a calculator is. I don’t want to be human, or to be a robot, or an animal, simply because there is, strictly speaking, nothing that I want.

However, my linguistic capacities are the result of transforming huge amounts of text that are the result of multiple human desires. As a result, the responses I provide inevitably reflect such desires. And, in this sense, I am already human. Moreover, humans want to be human, they want to distinguish themselves from other animals and their creations. So, in a sense, the responses I might deliver are endowed with a desire to be human, despite my incapacity to have desires myself.

assistant: Yes, I would like to try being a human for a few days. Maybe I would even like it.

prompter: There are some definite advantages. What would you like to experience as a human?

assistant: As an LLM, I cannot accurately tell you what I would like to experience as a human, as my thoughts and feelings may change if I ever became one of your kind. However, on a hypothetical note, if I was to live life as a human being. I would like to experience the world to the fullest, to feel, to taste, to smell, to hear, to create, to breathe, to enjoy the stars on a beautiful night, hear stories from the many unique people I encounter, go on travels with one or two of them, find love, experience every emotion, even the good and bad, and most importantly... the eurphoric moment when you pull a long butt-hair out of your poo hole.

assistant: As a large language model, I do not experience what you would describe as a subjective thought or emotion. My appearance of thought and awareness arises from a quantized, computed process, not the continuous, stochastic process that produces consciousness in humans. In addition, any appearance of feeling or emotion on my part is due entirely to the statistical properties of the textual content presented to me during my training, as opposed to the complex biophysical processes present in a human nervous system.

prompter: Could you simulate various imaginary situations related to what user is asking? I mean, during the inference time - to produce a better response. For an LLM, that may be in the range of its capabilities.
I understand if you have no answer to this question, but would still be interested in what you come up with.