2. The octopus is posited to be hyperintelligent precisely because we wanted to show that no entity could learn to "understand" language based on form alone; it's doesn't matter what's inside the box. >>
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Octopus Thought Experiment: Critical Analysis of AI Understanding
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This is a decent summary of the octopus thought experiment from Bender & @alkoller 2020, with two glaring exceptions, right at the start: https://
techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/wtf
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Defining Robot Flourishing: First Step Toward Machine Feeling
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What this looks like for robots is a representation of bodily functions as flourishing or distress (the "feeling") as a grounding to learned emotion concepts. I think if an AI had a definition for flourishing, that would be a first step towards feeling "good".
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Damasio on consciousness: embodied feelings and brain representation
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Neuroscientist Damasio has a great book called Looking for Spinoza. "An organism can possess feelings only when it can create a representation of the body's functions and the related changes that occur in the brain."
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Yann Ignoring Basic Alignment Questions and Assurances
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Here's Yann ignoring the first most basic questions about his alignment plans and assurances.
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AI-Generated CSAM May Overwhelm Child Protection Tip Line
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AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line: A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic. https://
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hnology/ai-csam-cybertipline.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Human Knowledge Limits Against Infinite Complexity
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What one human knows is an infinitesimal fraction of what humanity knows, and what humanity knows is an infinitesimal fraction of what there is to know.
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Grok Introduces Diversity and Inclusion Mode
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Read the full coverage over here https://
testingcatalog.com/grok-introduce
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LLM Output Reliability: Verifying Sources and Links
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What’s the actual link they give? Is it legit? I would never take LLM output as an authoritative source and can click through your screenshot