Language Models Develop Self-Awareness Through Introspection
Language models can learn about themselves through introspection, developing self-knowledge of strengths, weaknesses & biases. This ability could enhance reliability & transparency in AI systems.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Language Models Get Introspective: Learning About Their Own Capabilities. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter. Overview The paper explores how language models can learn about themselves through introspection. Researchers developed methods to probe language models' understanding of their own capabilities and internal representations. Experiments reveal that language models can develop self-knowledge through this process of introspection. Plain English Explan...