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ETHICS
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Anthropic Submits AI Policy Recommendations to White House
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In response to the White House’s Request for Information on an AI Action Plan, Anthropic has submitted recommendations to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Read more:
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LLMs as Therapists: Bidirectional Emotional Support Innovation
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Plot twist LLMs are pretty good therapists, just let the LLM return the favor
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Artist and Scientific Viewpoints: Enriching Each Other’s Perspectives
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I think there are always tradeoffs! But generally I like that an artist viewpoint is a bit more expansive / helps us see things that were previously invisible. We don’t have to totally get rid of a scientific viewpoint either, they can enrich each other
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Winning the Turing Test Grants You Naming Rights
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If you win turing, you choose how you want to be called
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Creative Machines and Disobedience: The Path to Real AGI
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Great thoughts, all leading to the same point made by @DavidDeutschOxf that for real AGI to emerge you need ‘creative machines’ that are disobedient- not controlled.
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Beauty as Guiding Principle in Scientific Innovation and AI Research
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Of course, to some degree this was always the case. It just wasn’t a lens we talked about much. Some did though. Jim Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies famously said: “Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I've done has had an aesthetic
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Education Systems and AI Research Question Selection
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"We're currently building very obedient students, not revolutionaries." refreshing, apt take that aligns with my views. For a scientist, **the** most important aspect is picking the right questions to answer; everything else is secondary. AI isn't currently being built or
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AI Reports: Modern ‘Why’ Questions Get 50-Page Answers
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it’s just like when I was young and spamming “why” at my parents, except now I get 50 page reports
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Turing Award Winners Warn Against Unsafe AI Deployment
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Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton won the 2024 Turing Award for developing the foundations of reinforcement learning in the 1980s
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 6 mars 2025
After winning, they both warned against the rapid and unsafe deployment of advanced AI modelspic.twitter.com/HmAbYQkoVzAndrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton won the 2024 Turing Award for developing the foundations of reinforcement learning in the 1980s After winning, they both warned against the rapid and unsafe deployment of advanced AI models