What's fascinating to me is Alex Albert losing sight of something genuinely cool & interesting: the model integrated needle testing concepts so quickly that it produced responses that could be construed as recognizing the test environment.
Illusion of "meta-cognition" isn't that surprising if one remembers the system is created & trained by #AI #TrueBelievers who spend all day every day communicating in language that presumes #AGI is imminent - if not, as assumed here, immanent.
#AIHype #Claude