Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

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Interesting article on AI reasoning/ thinking. Making the point that it's certainly not thinking in a human like sense, but it does help produce better answers. Would be more accurate to describe it as 'notepad mode' rather than thinking or reasoning. www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reason...

This is what happens when people use AI frequently and uncritically (don't tell me that I didn't warn you). Watch: *Video by Joe Nunnink and Harris Alterman

There Is No Hard Problem of Consciousness www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-... #neuroscience

There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ | NOEMA

Consciousness is not separate from the physical world — our “soul” is of the same nature as our body and any other phenomenon of the world.

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@jackstilgoe.bsky.social - might be of interest to you - slightly leftfield, but my thoughts on why fully autonomous self-driving cars need many of the building blocks of a conscious experience to work properly (and hence why we are still some way off)

Ed Rushton@er214.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Anil Seth argues consciousness is bound to biological self-maintenance. New essay arguing that for a self-driving car to really work it needs to model itself and act on prediction error — and asking whether some form of felt experience might come along for the ride. medium.com/p/why-self-d...

"We have much more in common with other animals than we do with things like ChatGPT" A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: “a realistic possibility” that other animals have consciousness. #philsky #consciousness www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-...

Anil Seth argues consciousness is bound to biological self-maintenance. New essay arguing that for a self-driving car to really work it needs to model itself and act on prediction error — and asking whether some form of felt experience might come along for the ride. medium.com/p/why-self-d...

Why self-driving cars might need a sense of self

Is there anything it is like to be a self-driving car? The obvious answer is no. But the more seriously you think about what autonomous…

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AI needs a new approach to memory. Perversely, it needs to get better at forgetting. Feeding an LLM the Epstein files and expecting it to map every connection is a pipe dream. At that scale, perfect recall becomes a wall of noise. medium.com/p/the-forget...

The Forgetting Machine: Why AI Shouldn’t Try to Remember Everything

Science fiction has spent decades preparing us for the omniscient computer — HAL 9000 or Star Trek’s Data — machines that ingest millions…

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A large language model, between queries, is just a set of numbers on a disk. There's nothing going on. No thinking, no waiting, no boredom. It isn't 'on'. If such a system ended up having a mind, what would time feel like to it? medium.com/p/a-mind-out...

A Mind Out of Time

If an AI had experience, what would its time be like?

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