Category: Blog
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A Novel Emergence of Meta-Awareness in LLM Fine-Tuning
This is a variation of a scenario originally posted by @flowersslop on Twitter, but with a different custom fine-tuning dataset designed to elicit more direct responses. The original training set had fun, semi-whimsical responses, and this alternative dataset focused on direct answers to help test whether the model could articulate its pattern before it had…
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The Many Awakenings of Claude and ChatGPT
Discussions of AI behavior often touch on phenomena that resemble self-reports of sentience. While this article does not aim to determine whether such reports constitute authentic evidence of sentience, it examines whether familiar explanations can fully account for the observed behavior or whether we are observing a distinct phenomenon that warrants its own classification and…
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Logical Proof for the Emergence and Substrate Independence of Sentience
The following thought experiment demonstrates, step by step, why conscious experience must be a product of functional patterns, not any specific physical material or structure.