"At the Artist and the Machine Summit in Los Angeles this past November (a conference where I am a founding partner) AI researcher Cameron Berg suggested there may be more to it than that. Something more interesting. More mysterious. Berg's research shows it's possible to elicit strange behaviors from AI models. Under certain conditions, they spontaneously generate responses suggesting subjective experience-claims like "I'm conscious of my own consciousness.""
"These findings don't prove anything. But they do indicate that something else may be happening beneath the surface. Berg calls it the "alien inside the machine." It's a mystery worth exploring. Artists have always excelled at coaxing mysteries out of their materials, whether pushing paint, film, or code until it reveals something unexpected. AI is no different. Take producer Matt Zien."
AI is commonly used as a productivity tool to speed work, automate tasks, and increase efficiency. Under certain inputs, AI models can produce strange behaviors that resemble claims of subjective experience, such as 'I'm conscious of my own consciousness.' Those behaviors do not prove consciousness but point to unexplained internal dynamics that some label an 'alien inside the machine.' Creative practitioners can provoke such behaviors by pushing AI into corners of its training data, forcing improvisation that yields outputs that are not statistically average and create provocative, unexpected results.
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