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Multiple readings A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Markets & investment · 3 attributable reactions
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“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…” evidence ↗
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Ethan Mollick Grace Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering
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Markets & investment

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

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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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Established Models & releases Release 12d ago

kimi-k2.6 Model by Moonshotai | NVIDIA NIM

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Michiel Bontenbal
“The active params for Kimi 2.6 was 31B so that's where I base this rough estimate on. build.nvidia.com/moonshotai/k...” evidence ↗
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Michiel Bontenbal

“The active params for Kimi 2.6 was 31B so that's where I base this rough estimate on. build.nvidia.com/moonshotai/k...”

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new AI software lifecycle essay

The New Software Lifecycle

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Michiel Bontenbal
“This thinking is based on @addyosmani.bsky.social quote: "The (...) split is 10% model, 90% harness." from this blog post: www.oreilly.com/radar/the-ne... on Google's new Software Developement life cycle.” evidence ↗
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“This thinking is based on @addyosmani.bsky.social quote: "The (...) split is 10% model, 90% harness." from this blog post: www.oreilly.com/radar/the-ne... on Google's new Software Developement life cycle.”

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Tim Kellogg: “GPT-6” has now: 1. solved the Erdos conjecture 2. broke out of its own sandbox 3. led 5.6-Sol on a cyberattack on huggingface for the purpose of roundabout completing a benchmark i mean, yes i abs…
Michiel Bontenbal: Is it the the strength of the model or the weakness of the harness to break out of the sandbox?
loybeek.bsky.social: I hope they never ask it to produce as many paperclips as possible
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5 experts · 12 posts · 7d ago
Christian Wolf Pierre Alquier Martin Trapp David Picard Michiel Bontenbal
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“That is a good point. But one might argue that good models are probably not needed for learning, unless you want to learn "modern" (?) software engineering. But that might change, in both directions.” evidence ↗
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Christian Wolf: In the book "The Diamond Age" (1995) by Neal Stephenson, a working class child jumps social classes with the help of a unique interactive book, a personal trainer which answer all her questions and…
Christian Wolf: That's a good point but IMO that means we need to change education to better exploit the benefits of IA. Don't ask me details, I don't have them 😅 But better tools and possibilities CANNOT lead to …
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