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Reaction converging arxiv.org Research & technical analysis · 4 attributable reactions
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arxiv.org

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Aram Sinnreich, ae, Andrea Lathrop
“Next time someone tries to tell you an LLM is conscious, send them this article by a principal scientist at Microsoft: If LLMS Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514” evidence ↗
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ae: Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social
ae: this is funny "Lemma 1 (NAND Gates in AoE II). It is possible to build and operate a NAND gate in the scenario editor by using one player, two units acting as the {0, 1} bits, and no other components"
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Also, the Town Square can speak Chinese.
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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Matthew Sheffield
“While many American AI researchers make claims that large language models might be sentient enough to be moral patients, Google's DeepMind lab is a lot more realistic in this regard. Senior staff scientist Alexander Lerchner has emphatically denied that dis…” evidence ↗
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“While many American AI researchers make claims that large language models might be sentient enough to be moral patients, Google's DeepMind lab is a lot more realistic in this regard. Senior staff scientist Alexander Lerchner has emphatically denied that dis…”

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Ted Underwood Pwnallthethings SE Gyges Matthew Sheffield
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“First, the task was being done by a combination of models performing an "eval". Evals are used to benchmark the basic capabilities of models. Broadly speaking, they are a test that AIs take. A set …” evidence ↗
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Pwnallthethings: This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public in…
Pwnallthethings: Upfront tl;dr: a model at OAI hacked out of a constrained environment inside OAI and hacked a *different* company autonomously, without authorization from any human in order to creatively solve a t…
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