New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts

By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection.

The short version

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Why it matters

Being aware of our own thought processes — a capacity called introspection — seems to come naturally to us.

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