Tag: software studies
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The digital revolution progressed through five stages: the repurposing of war-surplus analog vacuum tube components into the first generation of fully-electronic stored-program computers; the era of large central mainframes; the era of… more ›
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Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes… https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking more ›
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Dramatic advances in artificial intelligence today are compelling us to rethink our understanding of what intelligence truly is. Our new insights will enable us to build better AI and understand… more ›
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An awful personal prophecy is coming true. Way back in 2019, when AI was still a relatively niche topic, and only the primitive GPT-2 had been released, I predicted the… more ›
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Fin Moorhouse Will MacAskill We thank Max Dalton, Rose Hadshar, Lizka Vaintrob, Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden, Phil Trammell, Eric Drexler, and Dan Williams for their comments on earlier drafts. https://www.forethought.org/research/preparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email more ›
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tl;dr: AI systems seem like things which appear seductively like autonomous meaning-making entities but are actually tools which can’t make meaning on their own (for now). Understanding this seductive mirage… more ›
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You could be a Surrealist or a Futurist or a Post-Impressionist or a Cubist. You could align yourself with Art Deco or Dada or Bauhaus or Fauvism. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-new-aesthetics-of-slop more ›