"One of the most profound and mysterious capabilities of the human brain (and perhaps those of some other animals) is introspection, which means, literally, "to look within." You're not just thinking, you're aware that you're thinking -- you can monitor the flow of your mental experiences and, at least in theory, subject them to scrutiny. The evolutionary advantage of this psychotechnology can't be overstated. "The purpose of thinking," Alfred North Whitehead is often quoted as saying, "is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.""
"On Wednesday, the company published a paper titled "Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models," which showed that in some experimental conditions, Claude appeared to be capable of reflecting upon its own internal states in a manner vaguely resembling human introspection. Anthropic tested a total of 16 versions of Claude; the two most advanced models, Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, demonstrated a higher degree of introspection, suggesting that this capacity could increase as AI advances."
Researchers tested 16 versions of Claude. The two most advanced models, Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, demonstrated higher degrees of introspective ability. A probing method called concept injection assessed whether models can report on their internal states. Under certain experimental conditions, models were able to accurately answer questions about their internal states, indicating a limited, functional form of introspective awareness. The capability appeared stronger in more advanced model versions, suggesting introspective capacity may scale with model improvements. The findings may have significant implications for interpretability research and understanding internal model representations.
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