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Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions
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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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LLM metaphor scientific fabrication paper

LLMs are metaphor machines: orbital argumentation, misaligned citations, and scientific fabrication in AI-generated writing - AI & SOCIETY

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Jill Walker Rettberg Michiel Bontenbal

“Nettopp!! Her er den lange forklaringen min - akademsk skrevet, men med flere norske eksempler. link.springer.com/article/10.1...”

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Jill Walker Rettberg: My new article about LLMs is finally out in AI & Society! It argues that LLMs produce text metaphorically, through juxtaposing tokens that are related in some dimensions yet unrelated in others. Th…
Jill Walker Rettberg: Mikolov 2013's insight that the relationships between two words (vectors) can be analogous was a major advance towards generative AI. Queen is to King as Woman is to Man. I argue that this is what …
Jill Walker Rettberg: Here are Aristotle's analogical metaphors drawn the way an AI scientist might diagram them. Evening is to dawn as age is to youth -> Empedocles' metaphor "life's setting sun". But that metaphor doe…
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Alex Hern Michiel Bontenbal
Alex Hern: was really struck by a Stratechery point, that the single best thing America could do to improve its chances against China is legalise distillation on-shore. Currently only Chinese labs get to dist…
Alex Hern: I think there's a principled point for legalising distillation — if you get to use the commons to train an LLM so do I — but even beyond the principled point, it's just not working out as very effe…
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