“Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to wax poetic about orgasm, but that doesn't mean it has ever felt one.” I dissect Richard
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LLM Alignment Remains Unsolved Risk at Massive Deployment Scale
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If you think you are going to get alignment out of LLMs you are sadly mistaken. If you live in a society in which people are rolling out LLMs at massive scale, without a robust solution to alignment (or even managing gremlins) you’re probably fucked. Resist the proliferation of
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AI Contributions to GDP: Are They Meaningful or Misleading?
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AI and GDP – what does it mean? Sure, AI is “contributing” to GDP — but @davidsacks really nails it below, “Paying people to dig holes and fill them back up increases GDP, as it is currently measured, even though that activity has no value.” In the case of AI, GDP is going up
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Why Compiling Code Doesn’t Mean Correct AI-Generated Software
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“Marcus’ specific point about coding is structurally important: a model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, maintainable, well-architected software. The first is verifiable in seconds; the
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Agentic Code Risks Demand Roadmaps and Human Code Reviews
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this is … odd. the whole problem with agentic code is that people wind up with hard to debug redundancies, security holes, deleted databases, etc., which is exactly why you need roadmaps and code reviews, with AI-written code. I am with @Grady_Booch on this one (and almost
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Open Letter to Musk: Don’t Leave AI Industry Unregulated
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Dear @elonmusk
, If you still genuinely care about AI safety, you can’t let the Trump administration leave the AI industry almost entirely unregulated. You just can’t. – Gary -
Critique of GDPval-AA AI Benchmarking and Artificial Analysis Transparency
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i started writing about it in september, see my essay called Peak Bubble.
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AI Labs Accelerate Product Development, Leading to Rapid Output
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would be very surprising if he didn’t. let’s see who can spot them first.
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AI Assistants Still Corrupt Documents Despite Trillion-Dollar Scaling
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Ouch! Current AI assistants often corrupt documents. Sounds like an intern you can’t trust — once again. A trillion dollar investment in scaling hasn’t solved this.
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Oracle Stock Drops 50% After OpenAI Deal Declared Peak Bubble
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Oracle has dropped 50% since I declared that the OpenAI deal they made was “peak bubble”. And, as @edzitron lays out below, they may fall a lot further yet. At which point the entire house of cards could collapse.