There are many benchmarks we use to rank LLMs, but “how many felonies has it committed” has recently become popular.

This past Friday, the US Government issued an export control directive that prohibits Anthropic from giving foreign nationals access to Claude Fable or Claude Mythos, their latest models.

A “counting argument” is a style of argument common among creationists, who argue that the theory of evolution cannot be true and therefore humans (and usually animals too) were made in basically their present form by God.

The rehabilitation of Luddism is a vice signal.

I hope that we can, at some point, have some reasonable regulations on AI, as we do concerning banks, wiretaps, and dangerous chemicals.

The “Stochastic Parrot” Argument is Both Wrong and Actively Harmful

In short, this depends on what you think that means, whether you think it’s possible in principle, and what you think would be evidence of it.

Ideas in AI, preferably in English. Mostly what and why, a little how.

That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem.

Right now? No. In the near future? Maybe. Probably not, though.

Suppose also that after a while I get so good at following the instructions for manipulating the Chinese symbols and the programmers get so good at writing the programs that from the external point of...

[Warning: Extensive discussion of suicide.

Yes and no.

AI 2027 is a web site that might be described as a paper, manifesto or thesis.

To "generate" is to create, either from nothing (The Book of Genesis), or from very different or relatively inactive materials (an electrical generator, generating offspring).

How did it become the main story?

Each of these presents the clearest, earliest, or most-cited statement of a specific idea in AI.

Each of these presents the clearest, earliest, or most-cited statement of a specific idea in AI.

This is an important question because AI is, currently, important.