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Owain Evans - AI Situational Awareness, Out-of-Context Reasoning

The Inside View

CHAPTER

Unveiling GPT-4's Surprising Capabilities

This chapter explores the unexpected performance of the GPT-4 base model on long-form tasks, revealing how it exceeds chance levels in self-referential understanding. The discussion centers around the nuances of AI situational awareness, particularly in its ability to interpret its identity and respond to inquiries about itself. By analyzing responses from the early Bing chat release in 2023, the chapter challenges assumptions about base models and their grasp of human-AI interactions.

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