Could AI already be conscious? Geoff Nielson has been talking to me on the Digital Disruption podcast https://
youtube.com/watch?v=VVc0hi
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AI Consciousness Discussed with Geoff Nielson on Podcast
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Conference on AI Awakening at 1E9 Festival of the Future
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"Deus Ex Machina: What happens when artificial intelligence awakens?" – I will give a talk at the 1E9 Festival of the Future in Munich (July 2-5)! https://1e9.community/festival
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Conference on AI awakening at the 1E9 Festival in Munich
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"Deus Ex Machina: What happens when artificial intelligence awakens?" – I will give a talk at the 1E9 Festival of the Future in Munich (July 2-5)! https://1e9.community/festival
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AI water use may help stop sea level rise
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people are worried about how ai is using up all the water, but it’s actually the only way that we can stop sea level rise. also water is stored in the ai model only during training. when you use the model, the water is released again.
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AI alignment EA adjacent but rationality failed morality
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Good AI alignment is necessarily EA adjacent. But EA failed to derive a global morality, not for lack of good intentions or intelligence, but because human rationality is a brittle tool, even if you are a good rationalist, and most people prefer to either muddle through or to
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Co-creating a story with a text generator simulacrum
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Remember that you are not talking to "the AI", but you are using a powerful text generator to co-create a story about the interaction between a user and the simulacrum of an Artificial Intelligence.
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Anthropic’s success: digital Jesus or Antichrist separated by a bit
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The current trajectory of Anthropic is both beautiful and terrifying: when Anthropic succeeds, a significant subset of society will govern their lives based on "what would Claude do?". A digital Jesus. But the difference between Christ and Antichrist can be a single bit.
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AI experts’ thoughts dismissed in public opinion creation
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At the epicenter of public opinion creation on AI, the thoughts of actual AI experts are dismissed. (Btw. Silicon Valley largely agrees with the concerns, Chris Olah is a good representative)
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Sensitivity to generative model patterns and craving raw expression
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I have become super sensitive to the patterns introduced by many of the current generative models. I get triggered by contrastive negation and sloppy clip art. I want to see the output of your mind, raw existential expression, not filler
