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Towards a Clever Hans Test: Unmasking Sentience Biases in Chatbot Interactions

Nov 10, 2024•4

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Towards a Clever Hans Test: Unmasking Sentience Biases in Chatbot Interactions

Nov 10, 2024•4

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Towards a Clever Hans Test: Unmasking Sentience Biases in Chatbot Interactions

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The famous story of Clever Hans has become a cautionary tale in animal cognition. Hans was a horse in Germany in the early 1900s who could seemingly perform all kinds of smart tasks, such as simple arithmetic and spelling words. It is not explicitly documented, but it is probably safe to assume that Hans would have even been able to count the number of Rs in the word "strawberry", a feat that we, of course, know today to be fiendishly hard. To cut a long story short, it turned out that Hans could not actually do any of these things but was merely reading subtle cues from his handlers.

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Towards a Clever Hans Test: Unmasking Sentience Biases in Chatbot Interactions

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Towards a Clever Hans Test: Unmasking Sentience Biases in Chatbot Interactions