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Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Andrej Karpathy: It will take a decade for AI agents to actually work
OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy is not impressed with the state of AI agents.
Karpathy appeared on the Dwarkesh Podcast last week to discuss his observations on AI development.
Functional AI agents "will take about a decade," he said.
Even in the fast-moving world of AI, patience
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Vilayanur Ramachandran • Le cerveau fait de l'esprit : Enquête sur les neurones miroirs (Quai des Sciences) (French Edition)

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The author argues that projects like CognOS create an "illusion" of consciousness by using evocative syntax and declarations (like... See more
Just a moment...
The simplest way to interpret this would be to assume your brain first moves the arm and then predicts what it will see. I believe this is wrong. Instead I believe the cortex predicts seeing the arm, and this prediction is what causes the motor commands to make the prediction come true. You think first, which causes you to act to make your thoughts
... See moreSandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness as Divine Spark. Consciousness as electromagnetic field. Consciousness as functional cluster. I explored it all. Wegner thought it was an executive summary. Penrose heard it in the singing of caged electrons. Norretranders said it was a
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