Evangelos Kazakos

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Postdoctoral researcher @ CIIRC, CTU, Prague working in vision & language. Also robotics noob. PhD from University of Bristol. Ex. Samsung Research (SAIC-C). I love coffee and plants. And socks. 𖤓꩜𓆉𓃰𖤐 https://ekazakos.github.io/

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Happy Claude Day www.anthropic.com/news/claude...

Introducing Claude Opus 5 anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026 at $5 per million input tokens, matching Opus 4.8's rate.
  • On Frontier-Bench v0.1 Opus 5 scored 43.3%, versus 18.7% for Opus 4.8 and 33.7% for Fable 5.
  • Opus 5 becomes the default on Claude Max but sits behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks, per Anthropic.
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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I have to say I find these arguments (by @anilseth.bsky.social, @neddo.bsky.social and G. Tononi) unconvincing... 🧵

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Anil Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi argue in Nature that consciousness in silicon-based AI is 'extraordinarily unlikely'.
  • The cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons yet does not affect conscious experience, the authors note.
  • The trio rejects a precautionary approach to AI welfare, framing current LLMs as mirrors of our digitized past.
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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I have to say I find these arguments (by @anilseth.bsky.social, @neddo.bsky.social and G. Tononi) unconvincing... 🧵

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Three leading consciousness researchers argue in a Nature comment that today's silicon-based AI systems are extraordinarily unlikely to be conscious.
  • They separate intelligence from feeling, noting the cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons yet contributes nothing directly to consciousness.
  • They warn that treating appearances of mind in LLMs as real risks diverting welfare attention from beings whose capacity to suffer is already certain.
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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I have to say I find these arguments (by @anilseth.bsky.social, @neddo.bsky.social and G. Tononi) unconvincing... 🧵

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Anil Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi argue in a Nature comment published 19 October that current AI is not conscious and probably cannot be.
  • Their case stacks three moves: intelligence is not consciousness, computational functionalism is wrong, and leading theories of experience exclude today's architectures.
  • They judge false positives more likely than false negatives, so attributing consciousness to AI risks pulling moral attention from beings whose capacity to suffer is not in doubt.
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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I have to say I find these arguments (by @anilseth.bsky.social, @neddo.bsky.social and G. Tononi) unconvincing... 🧵

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • Three leading consciousness researchers argue in Nature that today's AI systems are not conscious and probably never will be.
  • They separate intelligence from consciousness, noting the cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of brain neurons yet produces no awareness.
  • They reject the idea that algorithms on silicon suffice for experience, calling large language models 'mirrors' of our digitized past.
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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I have to say I find these arguments (by @anilseth.bsky.social, @neddo.bsky.social and G. Tononi) unconvincing... 🧵

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Three senior consciousness researchers argue in a Nature essay that today's AI systems are not conscious and perhaps never will be.
  • They define consciousness as what disappears in dreamless sleep or under general anaesthesia, and treat it as distinct from intelligence.
  • The trio rejects computational functionalism and leans on integrated information theory to argue silicon architectures miss the bar.
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Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I have to say I find these arguments (by @anilseth.bsky.social, @neddo.bsky.social and G. Tononi) unconvincing... 🧵

Three reasons why AI is not conscious and perhaps never will be nature.com
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  • Three leading consciousness researchers, Anil Seth, Ned Block and Giulio Tononi, co-signed a Nature essay arguing today's AI is not conscious.
  • Their first reason: the cerebellum holds nearly four-fifths of the brain's neurons yet contributes nothing to subjective experience, dissociating intelligence from consciousness.
  • They reject computational functionalism and argue deep-learning systems also fail on wiring, the interconnection pattern that integrated information theory requires.
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Recent commentary

The lack of consent for datasets is a serious problem in ML. By addressing this, we could make a step towards healthier ML practices. I started building something around decentralised data sharing with consent and provenance verification. If you are interested, let's chat at #ECCV2026!

View on Bluesky · ♥ 6 ↻ 1 ↩ 2 · 63d ago

First slide: “AI sucks!” I will start to like the guy in the end 😂

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 58d ago

I name this summer “Beer and AI” 🤖

View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 2 · 77d ago

One great use case of agentic LLMs, for which I haven’t seen much discourse about (although obviously I’m sure people do this), is cleaning large-scale pre-training data with calling tools, including open-source LLMs etc. It does an AMAZING 🤩 job, and saves tones of time!

View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 88d ago

I watch the discussion over Anthropic on Bluesky with 🍿🍿🍿

View on Bluesky · ♥ 5 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 156d ago

RT from @sashamtl.bsky.social's LinkedIn as I found it really important given the huge gap between AI developers and common public in here: "Everywhere I look, I see people pissed off at AI – voting in the midterms, organizing rallies and protests, even vandalizing buildings in my neighborhood." 1/1

View on Bluesky · ♥ 0 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 2d ago

I guess my takeaway from the maths OpenAI saga, by also taking into consideration how mathematicians respond to the situation (as everyone should), is: If it cannot reason, and therefore the humans still need to do all the verification/correction/deciphering, then tell it to shut the fuck up.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 1 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 29d ago

Does it sound a bit like Jev is probably in the direction of combining Transformers/LLMs with neurosymbolic reasoning or is it only me?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 1 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 42d ago

Suddenly everyone's algorithms started "self-improving"... Like, there are no human researchers working in the companies, or thousands of raters for RLHF. LIARS

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