Exploring the Potential Sentience of the OpenAI-o1 Model: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Integrating Functionalism, Consciousness Theories, Active Inference, and AI Architectures

The OpenAI-o1 model, a transformer-based AI trained with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), may exhibit characteristics of consciousness during its training and inference phases, as evidenced by its functional capabilities that parallel human cognitive processes.