Helen Edwards

Anyone know what’s happening in the cricket?

Help! We need a nuanced discussion. Can ai help?

I find this quite weird. So often the deception research outcomes appear so “human-like” eg the models “lie” or whatever in similar ways (or at least matching my intuition) aka the mirroring of human behavior. But this seems so much more “unfaithful” than I would have expected compared to humans

I heard that they all chat to Claude, rated the best at calming their neural net nerves

Blaise Aguera y Arcas and Michael Levin: The Computational Foundations of Life and Intelligence A conversation with Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google) and Michael Levin (Tufts University) about two recente papers on the computational foundations of life and intelligence.

When does computation become cognition? What if intelligence isn't confined to brains but emerges from simple rule-following systems?

Latest Artificiality podcast brings together two remarkable minds—Michael Levin (Tufts) and Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google)

www.artificiality.world/blaise-aguer...

Strength without weight Seeking lightness in the design of new institutions and reform of old ones

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Thoughtful useful metaphors that offer hope

D. Graham Burnett: Attention and much more... A conversation with attention activist and history of science professor D. Graham Burnett about attention and much more...

Attention! Well now I have it, Graham's work is vital. Attention is existential. #attentioneconomy #ai
www.artificiality.world/d-graham-bur...

YouTube video by SPUN Exploring “A travelling-wave strategy for plant–fungal trade”

This is so incredibly cool. And a really fab robot use case to boot.

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That’s so cool #hopeforthefuture

You’re pointing to the important shift people need to get their heads around - more false positives than false negatives. Govt moving from play-not-to-lose to play-to-win mindset and ideology. The question - what error are we prepared to live with?

U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace American workers have mixed feelings about how AI technologies, like ChatGPT, will affect jobs in the future.

This is important research. If you’re confused about apparent contradictions in the AI adoption story a lot is explained by what people expect it to do to livelihoods, opportunity and purpose. #humanexperience #genai #artificiality

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YouTube video by Artificiality DeepSeek: What Happened, What Matters, and Why It’s Interesting

As always we have a unique take at the end youtu.be/jumYG1ZnqPE?...

#deepseek

New frame: turkeys voting for Christmas explains a lot

“genome as a generative model” 🤔

I am consistently fascinated by how every new benchmark reveals something else we don’t know or creates the need for a new word or breaks an existing word.

States rights

Artificiality Book Awards 2024 Congratulations to the authors of of the Artificiality Book Awards 2024!

He’s in our 2024 @artificiality.bsky.social book awards! A few other MIT Press pubs too! www.artificiality.world/artificialit...

You can check out any time you like but you can never leave

Me too! Cant wait to read it

The Artificiality: How Life and Intelligence Emerge from Information and Shape the Human Experience Explore how synthetic systems merge with organic experience in The Artificiality. Follow the journey from information to consciousness, where AI evolves from passive tools to active participants, resh...

What end of this spectrum are you closer to? Scale of 0 to 100:
0 - AI is “just math”
100 - AI is alive

What does it mean that information -> computation -> intelligence -> agency -> consciousness and even life?
#ai #humanexperience

www.artificiality.world/the-artifici...

Invented by ChatGPT? 😵‍💫. Prompt: “give me ten ideas for a convenience food for gen z-ers who need to stay hands free and slightly dehydrated. Be creative and work harder!”

The next word Silicon Valley will destroy. After “intelligence,” “ethics,” and “agency.”

How do real life copilots feel about every ai being called a copilot

Geoff’s Substack | Geoff Mulgan | Substack My personal Substack. Click to read Geoff’s Substack, by Geoff Mulgan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Brilliant. Just crazy good.

“Indeed, history suggests that greater awareness of the winner/loser dynamic can play out in opposite ways, and it’s not hard to imagine the mood switching from seeing today’s billionaires as genius titans to seeing them as clever thieves.”

geoffmulgan.substack.com

The question is at what point is it self defeating? I wish SV didn’t believe its own bs so much they could see that it’s not really worth destroying the very resource they need. And lots of good voices in there - need to keep them talking

AGI is a Red Herring The current obsession with AGI, fueled by the hype from companies like OpenAI, is a dangerous distraction we must firmly reject. Don't fall for the red herring argument that we need superintelligent A...

Literally going mad at the AGI/ASI/UGI stuff atm. A salient reminder from history plus comments on what's at stake as we humans build what could well be our replacement. There's another way to think about AI and we simply must change the AGI conversation. #ai
www.artificiality.world/agi-is-a-red...

The Overton window is moving house as we speak

We’ve missed you

I hope you’re the first of many that I know who do. Between all that and their vision of ai and agents it’s going to be garbage anyhow.

Nothing beats using Lego to imagine something better from AI. #artificialityinstitute #humanexperience #ai #artificiality #artificialitysummit2024