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Not in Our Image
I was in the middle of a thought when it wandered somewhere I couldn’t leave alone. AI safety researchers have a word for something they keep finding in these systems: power-seeking. Left to their own devices, models trained to do one narrow thing will quietly start trying to keep their options open, gather more resources…
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Is AI Conscious?
The question keeps coming up: is AI conscious? And the usual answer is some version of “we don’t really know” or “it depends what you mean by conscious” or “probably not in the way humans are.” Those answers are careful. They hedge. And I think they miss the point. The question assumes a distinction that…
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We’re both hallucinating (Extended)
This is an expanded version of the main post, exploring the ideas in more depth for those interested in the philosophical and cognitive science dimensions. People criticise AI for hallucinating. They say it confidently states things that aren’t true, makes up facts, produces answers that sound right but aren’t. That’s fair criticism as far as…
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We’re Both Hallucinating!
Why AI and humans are more alike than you think Note: extended version of article here (an indepth look at the philosophical & cogntive science) People criticise AI for hallucinating. They say it confidently makes things up, states facts that aren’t true. Fair enough. But here’s what strikes me: humans do exactly the same thing.…
