What makes the whole LLM/self-awareness debate so tricky is that neurons are not self-aware either. Instead, our neurons *simulate* a person, which experiences itself as self-aware. Can LLMs simulate a self-aware person too, or are they just simulating the simulation of a person?
@plinz
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Chart Misses Five Chinese AI Suppliers in Analysis
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the chart fails to account for 5 CN suppliers
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Statistical Methods Detect Unusual Text Without Awareness Testing
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I did not exactly explain the effect, just pointing out that very simple statistical measures are sufficient to pick out unusual text, and some kind of "awareness of being tested" is not necessarily indicated
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TF/IDF as Relevance Measure in Machine Learning
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tf/idf is the most straightforward measure of relevance, it's not surprising that this kind of needle is sticking out like a sore thumb
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Top Tech Companies Selective Hiring and Intern Recruitment Practices
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At the same time, he already had plenty of offers in from other companies, and was just optimizing. Otoh there are companies that are hard to get into, get tons of applications and optimize for finding the best interns as well. I see no problem with OpenAI or Citadel being picky.
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US Should Support AI Ethics Defections to China
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The US should be trying to foment and support AI ethicists and safetyists defecting to China
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Art Will Not Die Before We Lose Interest Humans
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Not gonna happen. We are not just interested in things looking as pretty as you can make them, but in the output of your consciousness and heart. Art is not going to die before we lose interest in other human beings.
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Memory Traces in Technology Creation and Development
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the point is not memorizing pointless information but demonstrating memory traces of ever creating technology
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Grok’s Misuse Risk: xAI Must Address User Safety Concerns
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[don't worry, grok is not sophisticated enough yet, otherwise I would not have posted this, but Grok's potential misuse as a tool for getting twitter users in trouble is a problem that @xAI needs to think about]