"system 2 as iterated system 1 with a self-consistency guarantee" is something I considered a few years ago as one of two hypotheses, and it led me to an interesting potential interpretation of consciousness — consciousness is the consistency guarantee. It explains why all
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Chain-of-thought summary and AI categories
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The CoT summary mostly what you’d expect — pages and pages of ideation about plausible nicknames and letter cycles, often nonsensically meandering. This is from the middle — imagine like 100 more pages of this stuff:
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Open-Source AI: Balancing Innovation with Misuse Risks
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Challenge as feedback signal for AI progress, not AGI measurement
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It's not primarily meant as a way to measure how far/close we are to AGI, it's meant as a challenge and feedback signal that helps you get closer by solving it
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ARC as a Benchmark for True AGI: Solving Human-Level Generality
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Not exactly — it's the other way around: if you can't solve ARC (which humans can solve), you don't have AGI (human-level generality) More broadly, the purpose of ARC is to be a useful tool that directs your focus towards the most productive unsolved bottlenecks to AGI
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AI Could Revolutionize Mental Health and Neuroscience Within Decade
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Could AI help us access peak mental states without drugs? What if we could cure most mental illness within a decade? Exploring Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's vision of how AI could revolutionize neuroscience and mental health in my latest article. Here's what's possible:
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AI Alliance Promotes Safe Innovation Through Guides and Projects
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We joined @thealliance_ai to help promote innovation and advocate for the use of safe and trustworthy AI. Progress this year includes 5 AI Alliance Guides, contributed to government thinking on policies impacting open innovation, and kickstarted 90+ projects.
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Truth Terminal vs Tay: Agentic AI and Meme Culture Evolution
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Is it just me or does @truth_terminal remind anyone of Tay chatbot from MSFT in 2016? Except truth terminal has almost 200K followers and Tay was shut down in 16 hours… Meme culture is a fascinating overlay on agentic AI.
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OpenAI o1 model safety and alignment features
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4/ Improved Safety Features • OpenAI says o1 has been rigorously tested for responsible use.
• Striking a balance between powerful capabilities and staying trustworthy.