While I'd be surprised to learn they have anything a normal person would call a sense of self, it would only be mild surprise and even then mainly because it means we finally have a testable definition. (Amongst other things, I don't buy that the mirror test is a good test, but rather I think it's an OK first attempt at a test).
We're really bad at this.
> In a way, doesn't it already "talk to itself" when generating sentences, e.g., its output token gets added to the input tokens successively?
I'm not sure if that counts as talking to itself or not; I think that I tend to form complete ideas first and then turn them into words which I may edit afterwards, but is that editing process "talking to myself"?
And this might well be one kind of "sense of self". Possibly.
While I'd be surprised to learn they have anything a normal person would call a sense of self, it would only be mild surprise and even then mainly because it means we finally have a testable definition. (Amongst other things, I don't buy that the mirror test is a good test, but rather I think it's an OK first attempt at a test).
We're really bad at this.
> In a way, doesn't it already "talk to itself" when generating sentences, e.g., its output token gets added to the input tokens successively?
I'm not sure if that counts as talking to itself or not; I think that I tend to form complete ideas first and then turn them into words which I may edit afterwards, but is that editing process "talking to myself"?
And this might well be one kind of "sense of self". Possibly.