Robot Uprising

IT HAPPENED

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All major AI companies have hired philosophers. Which is mainly because AI stopped being a pure technical tool (long time ago), and is now making decisions about honesty, harm, conciousness, and legitimately everything else. What I find difficult to understand is how much power a philosopher inside a corporation like Open AI or Anthropic ACTUALLY has. Like when it boils down to finances... does a philosopher really have that much to say? Asking big questions, but what about the answers? Will those be acted upon? Maybe it is actually AI safety. But maybe it also is ethics-washing? Either way, I do feel better knowing there are philosophers included.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

We find that the J-space has a number of unique properties, compared to the rest of Claude's processing: Claude can report on these representations. If you ask Claude what it's thinking about, it will tell you what’s in the J-space. Non-J-space representations are less reportable. It can also modulate them on request. If you ask Claude to think about something, or solve a problem silently in its head, it will light up the appropriate patterns in its J-space. By contrast, it has trouble modulating patterns not in the J-space. Claude uses its J-space for internal reasoning. If you ask Claude to solve a problem that requires multiple steps, the intermediate steps will light up in its J-space, even when it doesn’t say them out loud. These J-space patterns causally mediate its performance in such tasks, despite being smaller in magnitude than other representations. Representations in the J-space can be used flexibly for many tasks—for example, once “France” has lit up in Claude’s J-space, the model can recall its capital, or its national currency, or the continent it belongs to. However, despite its important role, the J-space is not involved in most of what a language model does—speaking fluently, recalling simple facts, using correct grammar, etc. In experiments where we prevented Claude from using its J-space, it still interacted normally, but lost its higher-order cognitive functions.

If you're in a gold rush, sell shovels

A new open-source AI called CarDiag uses audio to detect potential car problems. It’s still early days. Right now, the AI correctly distinguishes between healthy and faulty engines about 79% of the time. But here’s the impressive part: the entire trained model is only around 100 KB, making it incredibly lightweight and easy to run. Because the project is fully open source, the creator hopes developers and car enthusiasts will help train it into a much more accurate mechanic that fits in your pocket. Source. #OpenSource #Tool #Automotive

A new open-source AI called CarDiag uses audio to detect potential car problems. It’s still early days. Right now, the AI correctly distinguishes between healthy and faulty engines about 79% of the time. But here’s the impressive part: the entire trained model is only around 100 KB, making it incredibly lightweight and easy to run. Because the project is fully open source, the creator hopes developers and car enthusiasts will help train it into a much more accurate mechanic that fits in your pocket. Source. #OpenSource #Tool #Automotive

Breath play with a robot is just blocking its cooling fan with your bare hands. It'll overheat and downclock and maybe start stuttering all cute..