Edouard Machery

Pathetic

We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com

Apparently scientists have discovered that when you don’t practice a skill it does not develop and you are less motivated to engage in tasks requiring this skill. Thanks science.

nytimes.com

it has been like that since the first days of LLMs - they exploited the cog sci community to understand what they models do, how they work, they are now exploiting mathematicians. free labor, which we are surprisingly too willing to give. Nationalize!

OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems retractionwatch.com

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AI and Consciousness cambridge.org

Are viruses alive? And prions? You don’t know I don’t know and nothing hangs on these questions. It is in fact not a scientific question. The same is true of AI consciousness. Everything that matters can be reformulated without the C word.

apparently the chancellor of the university of pittsburgh has joined the board of life sciences AI infrastructure company Ambitious Bio. Surely there is no conflict of interest for a huge medical university like mine.... pathetic

An ideology is essentially a discourse whose function is to cause part of the population to forget what their true interests are and to act so as to support the interests of another part of the population. Much of the discourse around AI - AI consciousness, AI rights, AI intelligence, existential…

It strikes me that the AI agents are more like viruses hacking electronic systems than like smart organisms. Just like viruses hack cells, AI agents hack things similar in some way to themselves.

The level of arguments about AI csness is abysmal. No if LLMs are conscious using them is not slavery: see cows and horses. No we are not committing murder no more than when we kill a mosquito etc.

Have you been following the Thélyson Orélien affair in France. In a nusthell, a black haitian-canadian author, whose novel is widely talked about for literary prizes, is accused to have been using AI to write the novel. Possible, but of course the author is black, and

Dems have power at the local state and federal level. They must wield it. Protect immigrants and work toward abolishing ICE, crack on corruption and bring accountability to DC, increase minimum salary, protect trans people, regulate AI, stop funding Israel, abolish the laws against ICC, etc.

Why do I make so many typos? So they you know it’s not AI generated.

i have been reluctant to work with AI agents (among other things for privacy reasons), but if universities keep asking me to upload a letter for each of my students on the job market instead of using a centralized system like interfolio, gonna have to. Can't obsessively post here and upload letters!

imo, arguing that LLMs do not have (and won't) consciousness is no more helpful than arguind that they do (or will). Compare: Are viruses alive?