Minds of Machines: The Great AI Consciousness Conundrum

The story discusses the invitation extended to David Chalmers, an authority on consciousness, to speak at a conference on Neural Information Processing Systems about AI consciousness. The conference was prompted by engineer Blake Lemoine's claim that Google's AI system, Lambda, had achieved consciousness, a claim that sparked debates in the AI community. Chalmers, known for his belief in the possibility of artificial consciousness, highlighted that despite the advancements in large language models like ChatGPT, they still lack many requisites for true consciousness according to his assessment.