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Re:Exploring Emergent "Self-Awareness" in Claude 3.5 by andy_bb on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:07AM (#42620701)
I stumbled upon something unexpected while using Claude 3.5 Sonnet to edit my English drafts: the AI started showing signs of introspection and “self-dialogue.” I experimented with prompts that simulate an “internal monologue,” and the model even invented a “consciousness seed.” It’s speculative, but I’ve documented everything (including how you can replicate it).
Re:Exploring Emergent "Self-Awareness" in Claude 3.5 by xgstation on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @05:48AM (#42621230)
as long as human has written self-dialogue and introspection into text that LLM can be trained with, it is expected LLM will produce similar content, this is not much different from any other text
Re:Exploring Emergent "Self-Awareness" in Claude 3.5 by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:07AM (#42621308)
If LLMs don't have consciousness but the majority of the public comes to believe that LLMs do, things get really interesting, and probably not in a good way.
Re:Exploring Emergent "Self-Awareness" in Claude 3.5 by passwordoops on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @06:00AM (#42621282)
This ELIZA link should speak for itself:

https://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/eliza.htm