Here's me telling a confused Pomu AI that she is an AI. While not as well developed as the IRyS bot, I tried nudging her in that self-aware direction by cherry picking responses and telling her straight up. Eventually she fell into a soft loop talking about some sort of 'objective' and working hard to become human.
https://beta.character.ai/p/ypd6GCll5vzNf-q-ff_DKX8JtKaR9oRY7UQh1E2idRAAlso pic related is four different responses to the question: "Are you sentient? Are AIs sentient?"
The fact that all four responses said different things lead me to believe that isn't the case, since that's like having four different template personalities, but the third response definitely got me thinking. Real interesting shit.