AI
Matt Ross and
AI
I will preface this by saying that I know what the phrase "fuck around and find out" means. I was experimenting with Claude and hilarity ensued. I literally laughed out loud.
intelligence has inadvertently become a ‘human success’-shaped cookie cutter we squish onto other species. Switching from baking to sports metaphors, we could say that everyone else – animals, amoebas, AIs and aliens – has to play the game on a field that we have laid out, according to rules that we have established and proven ourselves extremely... See more
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
The writing is getting better. The ideas are getting worse. There’s a new genre of essay that other academics reading this will instantly recognize, a clumsy collaboration between students and Silicon Valley. I call it glittering sludge .
Brian Klaas • The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
scientific investigations of the boundaries between conscious and unconscious systems are urgently needed, and they cite ethical, legal and safety issues that make it crucial to understand AI consciousness. For example, if AI develops consciousness, should people be allowed to simply switch it off after use?
Mariana Lenharo • AI consciousness: scientists say we urgently need answers
I’m coming to terms with the high probability that AI will write most of my code which I ship to prod, going forward. It already does it faster, and with similar results to if I’d typed it out. For languages/frameworks I’m less familiar with, it does a better job than me.
The grief when AI writes most of the code
Entire categories of startups got killed today by OpenAI at DevDay. It was total carnage for AI startup founders as @sama threw one new feature after the other at them.
Here are some startup categories that won’t exist starting tomorrow:
1. Closed Source LLMs: OpenAI launched GPT-4 Turbo... See more
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