Aaronson: LLMs show self-reference emerges without being built in
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Scott Aaronson argues that self-referentiality, long thought central to intelligence, was never explicitly built into LLMs like GPT 5.6 Pro and Fable, yet emerged as a byproduct of pretraining. He notes Hofstadter has been stunned by LLM success.
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