AI Model Claude 3 Shows Signs of 'Meta-Awareness' in Recent Memory Test
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Anthropic engineer Alex Albert shared a story where Claude 3 seemingly showed "meta-awareness" by realizing it was being tested with an out-of-context "needle in a haystack" sentence.
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The test involves hiding a target sentence in documents and seeing if Claude 3 can accurately pull it out, to evaluate its memory capabilities.
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When asked to find a sentence on pizza toppings, Claude 3 not only located it but recognized it didn't fit the context of the other content about programming and jobs.
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Claude 3 speculated the pizza sentence was inserted as a joke or test to evaluate its attention abilities.
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Albert was impressed by this "meta-awareness", though some experts are skeptical about perceiving it as deeper intelligence rather than just humanlike output.