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In a recent interview with ABC news, Sam Altman emphasised multiple times that he sees individual AI tutoring as one of the greatest applications of AI…
Anthropic has published its AI Safety strategy: “Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How”. High-level thoughts Overall, I like the posted…
Annotated excerpts from a recent conversation between Jim Rutt and Joscha Bach. Link to transcript. The conversation is very dense and there are a lot…

February 2023

Morphological intelligence (Levin, 2022) is the ability to solve problems in the morphological space, e.g., navigate to a target morphology of the…
This post has been originally published on LessWrong. I didn’t copy the footnotes into Substack because there are too many of them. Please proceed to…

January 2023

I structure this post as a critique of some recent papers on the philosophy of mind in application to LLMs, concretely, on whether we can say that LLMs…
TL;DR LLM lineages can plan their future and act on these plans, using the internet as the storage of event memory. “We” are not guaranteed to…
This post is a follow-up to Buck's “The case for becoming a black-box investigator of language models”. Here, I want to highlight two further reasons…

December 2022

In this essay, I try to convey a set of related ideas that emerged in my mind upon reading the following papers: "Dream of Being: Solving AI Alignment…

November 2022

In this post, I connect some of the concepts from psychology, systems engineering and systems management (as normative sciences), and the theories of…
I think much of the confusion about Active Inference arises because the term is used to refer to two related, yet distinct concepts (one can also call…
Problem statement The problem of epistemic irresponsibility, as I will call it in this post, is that people sometimes agree that their reasoning (and…
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