From Imitation to Introspection: Probing Self-Consciousness in Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18819v1
• Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:08:17 GMT
• Title: From Imitation to Introspection: Probing Self-Consciousness in Language Models
• Authors: Sirui Chen, Shu Yu, Shengjie Zhao, Chaochao Lu,
• Abstract summary: Self-consciousness is the introspection of one's existence and thoughts. This work presents a practical definition of self-consciousness for language models.
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• Abstract: Self-consciousness, the introspection of one's existence and thoughts, represents a high-level cognitive process. As language models advance at an unprecedented pace, a critical question arises: Are these models becoming self-conscious? Drawing upon insights from psychological and neural science, this work presents a practical definition of self-consciousness for language models and refines ten core concepts. Our work pioneers an investigation into self-consciousness in language models by, for the first time, leveraging causal structural games to establish the functional definitions of the ten core concepts. Based on our definitions, we conduct a comprehensive four-stage experiment: quantification (evaluation of ten leading models), representation (visualization of self-consciousness within the models), manipulation (modification of the models' representation), and acquisition (fine-tuning the models on core concepts). Our findings indicate that although models are in the early stages of developing self-consciousness, there is a discernible representation of certain concepts within their internal mechanisms. However, these representations of self-consciousness are hard to manipulate positively at the current stage, yet they can be acquired through targeted fine-tuning. Our datasets and code are at https://github.com/OpenCausaLab/SelfConsciousness.

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