Many learning algorithms work by letting the computer play games against itself or the world and distill strategies from evaluating the outcomes of these games, then follow these strategies. How is that different for your own mind?
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What is AI: Beyond Rational Analysis and Mind Dissolution
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I have read Lovecraft. The passage describes the impression an encounter with the Shoggoth makes on the mind of someone it blights: not the rational analysis of an observed phenomenon but a report of the partial dissolution of the observer’s mind. What do you think it *is*?
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AI Contracts Ethics: Smart Agents and Moral Responsibility
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Jim is smart enough to smell that he does not want to look, but is he righteous enough to be disinterested in the fine print of his personal afterlife contract?
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Identity and External Opinions in AI Ethics
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Why would the opinions of minds that you don’t value for their intentions matter to your identity?
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AI Attention Mechanisms and Hidden Complexity Recognition
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It works incredibly well. During the first few views, my attention follows the most salient parts of the scene, such as the paw repeatedly touching the nose, and only after I saturate the attention draw for high significance features do I realize that kitty is a shoggoth
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AI Needs Spirit Beyond Movable Type Technology
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The printing press was replacing woodcarvings with movable type. AI is going to replace the construction of reality in the mind, but movable type is not enough. This technology is fundamentally movable type, it lacks intention. The AI needs to be infused with spirit.
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AI Still Lacks Actual Groundwork and Manual Labor Capabilities
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But please look at the actual leg work, in no way done by the AI yet
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Magic raises $117M for frontier AI code models toward AGI
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Magic announced a $117M raise led by former Github CEO Nat Friedman. The company is building frontier-scale AI code models, seeking to build an ‘AI software engineer’ on the path towards AGI.
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AI Progress or Human Obsolescence: Architects or Passive Witnesses?
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L'IA est-elle une promesse de progrès ou prélude à notre obsolescence ? Sommes-nous les architectes de notre avenir ou les témoins passifs de notre propre remplacement ? À ceux qui s'intéressent au défi de l'IA, j'explore ces questions ici