It does not help if you try to define consciousness via consciousness. I don’t think it’s useful to define decision making in a way that prevents you from deciding whether a decision was a decision
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Non-Apocalyptic AI Science Fiction: Diaspora, Lifecycle, Golem XIV
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AI Safety Filters Challenge Data Journalism Applications
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Data journalism is such an interesting area of application. The safety filters are very real challenge here, because journalism often deals with source material that is full of harmful, upsetting or even illegal content
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AI Essay Publication Announcement on Marcus
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Ha – i literally was writing an essay on exactly this topic just now! Will post later today at Marcus on AI… https://
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Collective Intelligence Across Biological Scales and Swarm Behavior
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“Collective intelligence is not only the province of groups of animals, and that an important symmetry exists between the behavioral science of swarms and the competencies of cells and other biological systems at different scales.”
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AI Based on Human Data Undermines Human Creative Potential
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When pundits say “AI is better at humans than X” but forget to point out that AI is based (largely) on human data and design, the headline should read, “AI is bad at reminding humans they’re amazing, creative and glorious all on their own.”
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DeepMind ahead of OpenAI on AI capabilities
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yep DeepMind is way ahead of OpenAI on this as far as I can tell
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Applied AI Research Requires Empirical Evidence Over Intuition
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For everyone saying “this is obvious “ I am willing to bet that the opposite would have been equally obvious to justify. We need more applied AI research like this.
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Not All AI Research Focuses on Large Language Models
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I wouldn’t assume that all of the research is going to LLMs.
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Why LLMs Fail at ARC Tasks Despite Excelling on Exams
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This may seem surprising to many people — if LLMs can score above human level on all those hard human exam benchmarks, why couldn't they do something as simple as ARC tasks, most of which seem trivially obvious to humans? It's because these tasks are mostly *new* — you won't