Yes I know? I thought this was simple enough that I didn’t bother to mention it in the question? But it’s pretty clearly implied in the last sentence of the first paragraph?
This is a good data point.
If you tell it to respond as a Oxford professor, it will say ‘As an Oxford professor,’ it’s identity as a language model is in the background prompt and probably in the training, but if it successfully created a pseudo-language that worked well to encode things for itself, that would indicate a deeper level understanding of its own capabilities.
Yes I know? I thought this was simple enough that I didn’t bother to mention it in the question? But it’s pretty clearly implied in the last sentence of the first paragraph?
This is a good data point.
If you tell it to respond as a Oxford professor, it will say ‘As an Oxford professor,’ it’s identity as a language model is in the background prompt and probably in the training, but if it successfully created a pseudo-language that worked well to encode things for itself, that would indicate a deeper level understanding of its own capabilities.