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Multiple readings Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher Building & implementation · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Markets & investment · 3 attributable reactions
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Established Agents & robotics Development 11d ago
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Rural NY school humanoid robot teacher

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Julie Carpenter, PhD
“As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up…” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Taylor Lorenz Hypervisible Luke Stark sorelle Dare Obasanjo Charles Logan Meredith Rose +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up…”

Opportunity & adoption

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”

4 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
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Established Models & releases Research 9d ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Stephan Geering
“On the second point see here: www.anthropic.com/research/glo...” evidence ↗
6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Grace Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“On the second point see here: www.anthropic.com/research/glo...”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Tim Duffy: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
Tim Duffy: More detail on the method from the paper:
Grace: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
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“Beddoes pushes back on the claim that nobody died in Africa as a result of DOGE, but didn't have her homework in front of her... she should have had a lot more research ready to go on this issue, s…” evidence ↗
e.w. niedermeyer: about to engage in self-harm (watch the entire Elon Musk Economist interview)
e.w. niedermeyer: you can tell Musk is a terrible prognosticator about technology and the future because he says utterly meaningless things like "AI will exceed all human intelligence" what does that mean? what is "…
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