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Re:Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf] by shrimp_emoji on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:11AM (#26063943)
>GPT-2 doesn't have a concept of self, so it constructs plausible in-character excuses instead.

Spookily similar to the confabulations (made by the left hemisphere in the brain?[0]) that people with brain damage often use to deny/rationalize their deficits (even denying paralysis sometimees!).[1]

0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27484245/

1: https://youtu.be/ymKvS0XsM4w?t=141

Re:Turing test considered harmful (1995) [pdf] by text70 on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:48PM (#26067715)
You can test self-awareness, if you can test if the program knows it will halt.