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Never mind debates about intelligence. How many actions can a system take at 99% reliability before a human must intervene? This metric is doubling every 7 months.

"Our results show that simple algorithmic improvements can enable significantly more data-efficient pre-training in a compute-rich future."

Certainly one of my criteria for a utopia would be that some of the beings in it are engaged in intriguing or exciting activities with meaningful consequences. I'd require more tha…

In the Culture Series history hasn't ended, and the members of the Culture can and do leave and live in ways the Culture would find repugnant. Also there are marginal participants …

This is an example that supports Scott's point that people don't have world models. The people who "believe" this don't wonder how stock market continues to operate now that NYC is…

> it's possible for simple normal trains of thought to latch your brain into a very undesirable state. This seems very incorrect, or at least drastically underspecified. These trai…

some pointers to the research program please?

We often weaken ourselves by thinking we have a moral duty to be tolerant, even in the face of intolerance.

What the journey from AI assistant to full-virtuality can teach us about the nature of love.

See also independent RL based reasoning results, fully open source: https://hkust-nlp.notion.site/simplerl-reason Very small training set! "we replicate the DeepSeek-R1-Zero and De…

They replicate the DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 training on small models with limited data. We show that long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and self-reflection can emerge on a 7B mode…

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None of the MP4 videos play in Firefox. The MOV videos play fine. All the videos play in Safari. I have not tried Chrome.

That matches how philosophers typically talk about the Chinese room. However the Chinese room is supposed to "behaves as if it understands Chinese" and can engage in a conversation…

Very fully open-sourced (hardware, software, data). About $30 K BOM. Seems like a great starting point for open source human scale robotics.

Also, you are obviously wrong (or rhetorical?) when you say "No one is talking about what a machine intends to do." We certainly do! You can say "No one should" or other normative …

Some philosophers take that position. Dennett, explicitly cited in the article, wrote The Intentional Stance (1987) about exactly the approach to intentionality taken in the articl…

Cool way of putting it. Let's run with that. A good actor can be seen as instantiating a Boltzmann Brain while on stage -- especially when improvising (as always may be needed). Ma…

The article provides a very clear reason for using the idea of "intention": that framing helps us understand and predict the behavior. In contrast framing a mathematical function a…