The different levels of how Claude thinks
Summary
Out of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible — thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside our AI model, Claude. Our experiments were inspired by a leading theory in neuroscience: the global workspace theory. It holds that a thought becomes consciously accessible when it enters a shared "workspace" that's broadcast across the brain. We found a set of representations in Claude’s neural activity that play a similar role. Read more about the…
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- Introducing Claude Fable 5Anthropic on YouTube
- Translating Claude’s thoughts into languageAnthropic on YouTube
- When AIs act emotionalAnthropic on YouTube
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