Okay, so hear me out… we’re always talking about how powerful AI is getting, right? Like, these Large Language Models (LLMs) can write essays, code, and even generate images. But have you ever wondered if they could, like, know they’re doing it? Can they be self-aware? It sounds like sci-fi, but there’s some actually cool research digging into this.
My PhD focus is AI, and this whole idea of simulated self-awareness is super fascinating. The current big LLMs, they need a ton of data and memory to function. Think about how much information they process to give you one answer. It’s massive.
But what if AI could achieve something like self-awareness with way less? This is where the concept of iterative self-compression comes in. The idea is to train an AI to constantly refine its own internal representation of information, essentially making it smaller and more efficient over time. Imagine an AI that doesn’t just store everything, but actively compresses its knowledge, its