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AI consciousness is stirring up debate again. @tristangreene.bsky.social's recent article digs into Jonathan Birch’s AI Consciousness: A Centrist Manifesto. Birch challenges us to think about whether we can even define consciousness in AI yet, or if it’s too early to tell. Link to article 👇

The conventional wisdom says that AGI requires embodiment, that it must live inside a robot body to truly develop. New research and philosophical takes are challenging this fundamental assumption. What if physical embodiment is a dead end for AGI? 🧵

An AGI lacking Moral Intelligence is just a high-stakes liability waiting to happen. 💥 In his recent article for us, Wendell Wallach challenges the hype: Can we call it "general" if it can't recognize a unique ethical crisis or explain how it made a decision? 🧵 #AI #AGI #MachineEthics #FutureofAI

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"The only path forward is advanced AI systems to become so useful that we forget we’re using them. Simply put: AI needs to fade into the background." via @tristangreene.bsky.social www.cagii.org/blog/agi-sho...

Issue three: Getting Started "Don’t call me Ishmael. Today’s newsletter covers using large language models to assist with new writing projects, Machiavellian confidence, and how to write for non-fiction readers." #writing #AI

A newsletter about AI-assisted writing for humans who read and write non-fiction. "The Electric Ink Daily" by @cagii.bsky.social Read it on @linkedin.com www.linkedin.com/pulse/electr...

Science is good. When that truth becomes controversial, we're all in really big trouble.

Big bang little bang big bang little bang What's the difference?

amount of torque required for tightening a screw… compared to how much pressure it takes to break a human finger…

Manners are important. But is it more *polite* to spend tokens on "please" and "thank you" or to reward people's interactions with AI by generating outputs containing useful information?

Find someone who wants to learn with you forever. ❤️

I reviewed some fantastic research on using LLMs for medical diagnostics.

My latest for the Center

My latest for the Stack: www.thestack.technology/how-technolo...

I've been covering Colossal since it launched. Nothing it's doing has anything to do with "de-extinction" (a made-up word with no meaning). Everyone wants dire wolves to come back. They're our lost best friends from prehistoric times. But they're extinct. Genetic engineering can't change that.

Yesterday's piece. #AI #AGI

The global economy could be tanking because people don't understand how chatbots work. That's not a metaphor. Trump's tariffs might have been miscalculated because the formula was generated by ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, and/or Gemini.

What are some of your favorite AGI or AI-related accounts? Writers, researchers, developers, cheerleaders/critics, etc. Please share for reach! #AI #AGI

What about "La Grange" physics?

Me: Toast my bagel. ChatGPT: (history of bagels) Me:

What could a chatbot say that would convince you it was capable of human-level reasoning?

Live camera feed inside ChatGPT's black box:

SoftBank bets $1T on US robotics infrastructure, China pours $888B into its own, and Tesla calls for a national robotics strategy. www.cagii.org/blog/physica...

Synergy. That's one way to describe it.

Let the (papers on embodiment) hit the (arXiv preprint server) Let the (papers on embodiment) hit the (arXiv preprint server)

a $7 trillion dollar ladder to the Moon with a line of people waiting to climb it who don't know if they're afraid of heights.

I started reading the Dialogues last night. Happiness philosophy: Think, thunk, thank.

hear hear

Once again, we see great papers with interesting ideas full of weird language about "thinking" that's just pulled out of thin air.

Now the song is stuck in my head.

If you listen carefully, you can hear the goalposts being moved.

Training with more data = better LLMs, right? 🚨 False! Scaling language models by adding more pre-training data can decrease your performance after post-training! Introducing "catastrophic overtraining." 🥁🧵👇 arxiv.org/abs/2503.19206 1/10

It's been five years since The Bitter Lesson was posted, but researchers in the field of neuroscience are finding new ways to apply its wisdom.

The AI sector is in a frantic state. We think the goalposts are being moved in a massive way so that big tech can announce that it's reached AGI. But has it? I've been writing about that for the Center all week. We've published some really cool stuff with more on the way. Samples include:

It took us decades to get to this point. We're pretty happy to be here now.

We wish more people had Joe Tsai's view on the development of "human-level" AI and domestic robots.

If you're being chased by zombies, look for the secret door where all the angels are hiding. Modern AI development is an interesting discipline.

Well I'd like to see ol' neural networks wriggle their way out of THIS benchmark! *neural networks wriggle their way out of the benchmark easily* Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Cool research, weird flex.

These human-made mandalas on the Center's posts are amazing. Pure art. Great job Nikki @propagateselflove.bsky.social

Feelings are important. But they're not always honest.

The news, explained

Closed-source AGI claims are tough to verify. We need more transparency in the AI world. 🔓