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First model I've seen that was consistently compositional, easily handling requests like “Generate an image of an african elephant painted in the New England flag, doing a backflip…

Shameless plug of personal blog post, but relevant. Still not fully edited, so writing is a bit scattered, but crux is we now have the framework for talking about consciousness int…

This isn't true. I wrote a blog post about it a while back but never finished. It's complete enough to demonstrate the point though so I'll plug anyway https://stefanlavelle.substa…

I disagree with the AI doomers on technical grounds, but there's no need to overreact to the overreaction to LLMs. Apocalyptic predictions are visible in the myths of every civilis…

Manufacturers mostly make black or white cars because that's what people want. Modern culture has made people so boringly conventional that there's no point in manufacturers painti…

The irony of this post. Brains are sparser than transformers, not denser. That allows you to learn symbolic concepts instead of generalising from billions of spurious correlations.…

Turing Completeness is an incredibly low bar and it doesn't undermine this criticism. Conway's Game of Life is Turing Complete, but try writing modern software with it. That Transf…

For how long? Being recent (on evolutionary timescales), evolution has created selection pressures on previously irrelevant variables (the desire to have children, in particular). …

> More people means less energy and resources per person though Malthusianism didn't work in 1700s and doesn't work now. Economists produced endogenous growth theories explaining h…