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Claude 3 notices when a sentence about pizza toppings doesn't fit with its surrounding text. Whole internet including Tim Sweeney and Margaret Mitchell concludes that it's probably self-aware now. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by mozz@mbin.grits.dev to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

As somebody said, and im loosely paraphrasing here, most of the intelligent work done by ai is done by the person interpreting what the ai actually said.

This is an absolutely profound take that I hadn't seen before; thank you.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It prob came from a few of the fired from various ai places ai ethicists who actually worry about real world problems like the racism/bias from ai systems btw.

The article itself also mentions ideas like this a lot btw. This: "Fan describes how reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF), which uses human feedback to condition the outputs of AI models, might come into play. "It's not too different from asking GPT-4 'are you self-conscious' and it gives you a sophisticated answer,"" is the same idea with extra steps.