I couldn't click into it from the front page if I tried to click on the zone where the text content would normally go, but I was able to click into this from the front page if I clicked on the reply-count icon in the top-right corner. (But that wouldn't have worked when there were zero replies.)

The UK government also heavily used AI chatbots to generate diagrams and citations for a report on the impact of AI on the labour market, some of which were hallucinated.

This link is broken.

Thank you for writing this series.

I have a couple of questions about conscious awareness, and a question about intuitive self-models in general. They might be out-of-scope for this series, though.

Questions 1 and 2 are just for my curiosity. Question 3 seems more important to me, but I can imagine that it might be a dangerous capabilities question, so I acknowledge you might not want to answer it for that reason.

1. In 2.4.2, you say that things can only get stored in episodic memory if they were in conscious awareness. People can sometimes remember events from their dreams. Does that mean that people have conscious awareness during (at least some of) their dreams?
2. Is there anything you can say about what unconsciousness is? i.e. Why is there nothing in conscious awareness during this state? - Is the cortex not thinking any (coherent?) thoughts? (I have not studied unconsciousness.)
3. About the predictive learning algorithm in the human brain - what types of incoming data does it have access to? What types of incoming data is it building models to predict? I understand that it would be predicting data from your senses of vision, hearing, and touch, etc. But when it comes to build an intuitive self-model, does it also have data that directly represents what the brain algorithm is doing (at some level)? Or does it have to infer the brain algorithm from its effect on the external sense data (e.g. motor control to change what you're looking at)?
   1. In the case of conscious awareness, does the predictive algorithm receive "the thought currently active in the cortex" as an input to predict? Or does it have to infer the thought when trying to predict something else?