Amy Hoy

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the anthropic dweebs have "discovered" that claude* uses a sort of swap file/memory. and that if you tell it "white elephant" this swap "space" includes the tokens "white elephant." & that means it's basically conscious *the entire pkg, bc without the harness, the llm is useless

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic says Claude has a 'J-space' of dozens of concepts, under a tenth of neural activity, that mediates multi-step reasoning.
  • Swapping 'spider' for 'ant' inside the J-space changed Claude's leg-count answer from 8 to 6, demonstrating a causal role.
  • A 'J-lens' tool surfaced silent words like 'fake', 'fictional' and 'manipulation' during deception tests, pointing at safety uses.
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org

William Dalrymple on how the East India company teaches us how to dismantle Big Tech:"As the history of the East India Company shows, there can come a point when a corporation stops being just a company and begins seizing for itself the powers and trappings typically associate…

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@thomasfuchs.at

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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
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  • Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
  • Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
  • Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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@jessefelder.com

‘Americans feel they have less and less control over their own lives, and they increasingly blame large corporations. AI and data centres have been the tipping point.’ www.ft.com/content/63e8... by @ranaforoohar.bsky.social

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com

No industry of value needs to mislead you or make you feel bad for not adopting their tech. Nobody trustworthy will ever see the need to humiliate or attack somebody for not being excited about a product. These are the actions of a loser. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the…

Revenge of The Business Idiot wheresyoured.at View on Bluesky →
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Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social

I'm starting to see a pretty coherent body of research pointing to this answer. For example, this paper "Social Dynamics of AI Adoption" is about *parents*: "Anxiety about falling behind can drive people to embrace emerging technologies with uncertain consequences." www.nber.o…

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com

this article is ostensibly about AI investment driving a merger boom but the author doesn't think it's relevant to mention historic corruption has hollowed out our antitrust regulators (despite Republicans campaigning on being big fans of antitrust) or that AI doesn't make any…

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Recent commentary

"if the youths hate ai so much, why do half of them use it at least weekly?" "if people hate their jobs so much, why do they go there every day?" gee, i don't know, must be some kind of special reason people do things they profess to dislike. humans are famously 100% cognitive accordant

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i think it’s incredible how people claim that if you say “llms don’t think” you are a “physicalist” or, even worse, a secret dualist it’s a basic manipulative trick, you know extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and they don’t have any there’s NO evidence for llms being conscious

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“what if the AI doesn’t want to be shut down so it kills all humans?” well, the funny thing is, llms don’t exist between prompts. there is no there there. the model is sent a request, it “starts up” to receive it, processes it, and then it “shuts down” again. every single time.

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the ai coding crybullies never survived a usenet os/editor/language war and it shows some people online don’t like the tools you’re using? SO WHAT? either stop or suck it up

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thomas: i can’t believe people are complaining that the ai watermarking will affect “meaning.” ai text has no meaning me: right?? if you care about word choice, you’re not using an llm. ipso facto, bitches and that’s why i love leisurely mornings over coffee with my husband

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people really wanna use the exonerative tense for llm creators and users “an llm did xyz” :: “a car jumped the curb” :: “an officer-involved shooting”

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coffee thought: llms are non-determinist bc of the goals of producing a more naturalistic, interesting output, right? model wights don’t change, they’re fixed. so if you wanted the “most probable” next token every time, you COULD get it. no?

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apple ai: i know this call is probably spam, but apple ai: ✨priority notification✨

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