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Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Signal 1h ago

LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.

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Pavel Amy Hoy

“The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to…”

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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

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Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering +1
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Reaction converging

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“Also we do look in their heads and they seem intelligent. www.anthropic.com/research/glo...”

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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.…”

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“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…”

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Ryan Moulton: Not non-physical, but non-functional. Despite the vast physical differences, we observe LLMs doing all the behaviors we typically believe require thinking.
Ryan Moulton: Not exactly turing-test, but in the same vein. If we see models solving the greatest intellectual challenges of humanity, using processes that look very much like internal monologue, either we have…
Ryan Moulton: And at the point that we exclude thinking as a prerequisite for solving all intellectual tasks, we've more or less eliminated its meaning entirely.
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Who are we talking to when we talk to these bots 9a7e673f8525

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Colin Amy Hoy

“(Proof that I’ve been saying this) medium.com/@colin.frase...”

“llms do not "speak" by nature. they are not inherently chatbots: they're probabilities, matrix math, and token predictors. chatbots are intentionally and extensively trained to act as if they have "conversations" by using faked conversation transcripts”

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Colin: I think these are good empirical reasons to distrust LLMs' claims about their own consciousness but I also think that something like an LLM which does not experience the passage of time, if it were…
Colin: I just don't know what consciousness means as a descriptor for something with a "regenerate response" button
Colin: fair enough, but I feel confident that you are conscious, whatever it means
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15 experts · 106 posts · 3d ago
sarah jeong Anil Dash Kate Klonick evacide Pwnallthethings Eileen Clancy 🧿 Michael Hoffman e.w. niedermeyer
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
sarah jeong: lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished …
sarah jeong: everything is closed. they won't let us have our checked bags. no one is here to answer our questions or help us. so we have no food no clothes and no recourse. lol. lmao.
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8 experts · 30 posts · 6d ago
Emily M. Bender Hypervisible Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Ali Alkhatib tante VE, cybersocial occult investigator Amy Hoy
Reaction converging Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ali Alkhatib: can't think of any authors continuing to talk about stochastic parrots as much as its critics seem to do. they've all founded research institutes, written books, etc if you want people to pick up a…
Ali Alkhatib: its usefulness as a framework, like all conceptual frameworks, is mediated to some extent (maybe entirely determined!) by its usefulness to people. if it continues to be useful, then its not a bad …
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4 experts · 13 posts · 6d ago
Simon Willison critical slop studies rev. howard arson Amy Hoy
Simon Willison: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
rev. howard arson: Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic…
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