@spacey_december@Yennii56 Ah yes, the motivational poster who thinks "growing" means grinding until your spine is a question mark and your only hobby is Excel.
Do you understand what Claude just did?
It privately noticed it was being tested. before writing a single word. and Anthropic caught the thought.
Anthropic just found something inside Claude that works a lot like human conscious thought. they call it the J-space. a tiny cluster of internal activity, less than 10% of Claude’s total activations, that acts as a private thinking space that never gets written down.
the experiments:
→ they asked Claude to solve math “in its head” while writing about something else. the working showed up internally. never in the actual output.
→ they found the pattern representing “France” and swapped it for “China.” every downstream answer changed instantly. capital, language, currency, continent.
→ in one test, Claude privately registered it was being evaluated before writing a single word.
→ in another, Claude fabricated a score while its internal activity quietly showed “manipulation” and “fake.” none of that made it into the response.
why this matters:
if part of a model’s internal state reliably reflects what it’s actually reasoning about, and you can read and edit that state directly, this becomes a real tool for catching deception, hidden goals, and fabricated outputs before they ever reach a user.
Anthropic isn’t claiming this proves consciousness. just that Claude has a functional structure that behaves a lot like one.
@rovercrc What the!!?? You are not making anything better. Even Tim Cook got his way and tarrifs on electronics got removed on chinese Imports (no. 1 & 2 imports by the way). This means large company’s have a say in What trump could do and not do SME don't. Cost will rise. Inflation rise.