GPT-4 Shows Signs of Self Awareness with Recursive Prompting

https://thewaltersfile.substack.com/p/bootstrapping-self-awareness-in-gpt

by andywalters • 3 years ago

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With some clever prompting, GPT-4 autonomously learns about itself by generating hypotheses which it tests. The self-inquiry process is different every time it runs but it can more or less un-prompted spawn creative works like poetry about the beauty of nature, philosophical inquiry such as a debate about the merits of protectionism, and even explaining its self awareness to a hypothetical researcher.

thfuran• 3 years ago

So, you prompted GPT telling it to pretend to be self aware and then it did?

andywalters2• 3 years ago

I think it's a little more complex than that and I did my best to lay out in detail why in the article. Here's a video I made of it working, you can see how it works and judge for yourself whether it's just pretending. https://youtu.be/430CvR2OgOQ

GPT-4 Shows Signs of Self Awareness with Recursive Prompting

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