Self-awareness

Anthropic revealed an internal "workspace" in Claude—but did not prove that he was self-aware.

Anthropic revealed an internal "workspace" in Claude but did not prove that he was self-aware.

A new tool called J-lens allows researchers to identify internal representations that Klod uses for reasoning and modify them in an experiment. The similarity to the “global workspace” theory raises questions about consciousness in AI, but the researchers emphasize that there is no
Bird consciousness. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why did evolution create consciousness and do it more than once?

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum are investigating why consciousness evolved and why different species have developed it in different ways. By comparing humans to birds, they show that complex consciousness may arise through different neural structures.