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Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions
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A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

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Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 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 refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…” evidence ↗
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Ethan Mollick Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…”

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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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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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10 experts · 26 posts · 6d ago
Ethan Mollick Marc Lanctot Ramon Astudillo Scott McGrath Grace SE Gyges jake Paul Hünermund
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“Here, most often of the social sites, but all of the social sites have gotten worse. In the end, may need to return to MetaFilter for good comments.” evidence ↗
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Ethan Mollick: I post here & LinkedIn & X. There is almost no real-world value in posting here, very rarely do people tell me that they read something by me on BlueSky & all of the big AI talk is on X… …but assum…
Ethan Mollick: BlueSky can be a really unpleasant and anxiety-producing place to post about AI, but now that I have been on so many block lists (I guess just because all AI people get blocked) it is better. The i…
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9 experts · 16 posts · 5d ago
Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Chris Paxton SE Gyges Phillip Carter Alex Gude Sam Barrett, PhD Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Ethan Mollick: Was just skimming through the webpages of some of my favorite hard science fiction authors and wow the majority of them hate LLMs: a surprising number of them because they think it is a useless par…
Chris Paxton: Who's on existential risk?
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