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Reaction converging Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models Opportunity & adoption · 5 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Research 14h ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models

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Mark Riedl Tim Kellogg Matthew Kirschenbaum Edouard Machery Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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“here is the Anthropic blog: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa... I don't really like the framing of whether LLMs are conscious or not. It's completely unnecessary. As is the hand-waiving about whether LLMs have something equivalent to the (functional) g…”

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“Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”

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Anil Dash: this is not an accurate description of what's happening. not least because I can write code and get them to output something different there. I can understand why it *seems* that way, but this is j…
Anil Dash: Who are you explaining this to?
Anil Dash: Do you see why explaining "All output from AI has to be validated" in a reply to me here is... not a useful contribution?
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New Models & releases Release 16h ago
Mercury 3 diffusion language model launch

Diffusion at Scale: Introducing Mercury 3 – Inception

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Tim Kellogg Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) austegard.com

“Mercury 3: dLLMs have arrived, finally Same price as Luna-6, slightly better, but 8x faster text diffusion is here www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...”

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Tim Kellogg: Mercury 3: dLLMs have arrived, finally Same price as Luna-6, slightly better, but 8x faster text diffusion is here www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...
Tim Kellogg: this is roughly in the 250B-300B range this could be evidence that dLLMs simply scale great, and we just weren’t making them big enough until now
Tim Kellogg: i’ve been sour on dLLMs, but i eat my words. this is significant. This is worth your attention
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3 experts · 12 posts · 1d ago
Ben Recht Pwnallthethings tweety fish
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
tweety fish: I wonder if it's a, like, "well, if that doesn't happen everything's fucked anyhow, it's all correlated" thing
tweety fish: right the latter has always been my assumption about where we're headed, especially with things like "oh yeah google released a competitive frontier model, nothing was stopping them, they just hadn…
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4 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
tweety fish Mary Branscombe austin apenwarr.ca
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
austin: guess that anthropic paper on evil AI hiding in your fridge is more plausible now
apenwarr.ca: In all honesty the IoT device that never receives updates surely already had security holes. At least now you can make it do things. All discontinued-before-2026 Sonos devices? Hmmmmm
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2 experts · 8 posts · 2d ago
Will Oremus Colin
Colin: I'd like to hear from doctors on what they think the clinical value of such a number is, or how this information can be reasonably incorporated into the care for cancer patients. I literally don't …
Colin: It doesn't tell you if you have cancer or not, it doesn't tell you how much time you have, it doesn't tell you how you will or won't respond to treatment.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 1d ago
Mark Riedl David Picard David Marx
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Mark Riedl: Reporter: OpenAI is a true champion of equity and democratization, with new results on low-resource languages… hold on, I’m getting an update… *holds finger to ear* COBOL. They mean COBOL.
David Picard: They're listening to their highest paying tier consumers who are mostly... *checks notes*... boomers??
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