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New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts
By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection.
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W hat’s on your mind right now? You can probably answer this question without thinking too hard about it. Being aware of our own thought processes, a capacity called introspection, seems to come naturally to us.
Yet among philosophers and psychologists, introspection is a subject of active debate. Some think it’s closely related to consciousness . Others argue that it’s an elaborate illusion . It’s tricky to test theories of introspection in the lab, or to pin down a precise definition in the first place.
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