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Spectacular Nature piece on why AI is not conscious and probably will never be.
Three arguments:
1) Intelligence is not consciousness.
Intelligence is about solving problems. Consciousness is about having subjective experiences.
AlphaFold can solve super difficult problems. By contrast, our brains performs complex operations entirely outside awareness.
Problem-solving and consciousness are two separate things.
2. Biology is essential.
Our brains are alive, down to every cell. Their activity is inseparable from the living tissue that produces it.
The idea that consciousness can be reproduced simply by running the right computations on silicon components who do not fight for their life is a very far fetching and, I would add, almost religious, assumption.
3) The physical organization may matter more than the computation.
According to integrated information theory, consciousness requires specific causal relationships between a system’s physical components.
The computer architectures running today’s AI lack this organization.
The comparison with AlphaFold is particularly revealing:
Almost nobody things AlphaFold is conscious, despite its inner working is very similar to an LLM
Why?
Because it does not speak.
LLMs do speak like us and therefore we fall into an illusion:
Since they speak like us, they must be like us.
But this inference is wrong.
LLMs are just a series of matrix multiplications.
They are not conscious, and they will never be.
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it just occurred to me that many people are happy living according to heuristics that work well enough & don’t feel compelled to constantly refine their model of reality.
somehow, in 28 years of constantly refining my model of reality, I had not accounted for this.
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In 1998, a woman stopped Shaquille O’Neal outside an arena and told him his sneakers cost too much for kids. He took $2,000 out of his pocket and handed it to her. She slapped it out of his hand. That same day he walked away from a $40 million deal and went off to make a $20 shoe.
He tells it himself in the video below.
He was leaving the building. She started on him before he reached the car.
“You’re charging these babies all this money for the shoes.”
He had about $2,000 on him. He pulled it out.
“Ma’am, I don’t make the prices. Here you go.”
She slapped the money out of his hand and kept going. Why wouldn’t you make a shoe that’s affordable.
On the table at that moment was a Reebok deal. Forty million over five years.
“I thought about it. I was like, you know what, she’s right.”
“So that day, cut ties with Reebok, starting my own brand.”
He did not negotiate a payout.
“I told them: keep the money. I don’t want to make it a fight. I’ll still wear the shoes during the season.”
Then he went to Walmart. The new shoes were priced at $29 and $19.
He also took Reebok’s designers with him.
“It’s not that kids don’t want to wear 20 dollar shoes. They don’t want to wear shoes that look like they cost 20.”
“I don’t care how much money I lose. Make these kids look good.”
He says the line has now sold more than 400 million pairs.
Twenty-three years after he walked out, the company he is part of bought Reebok.
He gave up $40 million rather than keep selling a shoe a mother could not afford.
Would you have taken the forty?
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This dude riding in an Uber and the driver decided to play weird songs. At first the passenger didn't enjoy the track but as the driver keeps changing the tracks, it keeps calling his name in the songs.
As if the album was made for him, this is funny and weird 😂.
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Yes. For the love of God, yes. You all always do the same stupid thing. You reduce the massive interplay of the biological wonder of the human brain into one single literal element so you can make it sound like it's a "one element vs another element". There is so much more to the human brain than mere matrix multiplication, and that is just the pieces we currently come close to understanding.
Matrix math is not alive any more than your teddy bear is, no matter how fun and magical it feels to imagine it is.
How have we become this stupid as a society?
"Thinking" is a word used to describe the process that happens in the brain. If you want to overload it and force a definition change, talk to Webster's. They'll likely gladly acquiesce, as they did with male and female for that particular flavour of mass psychosis, but the obvious and real agenda behind both is the same. You don't care ultimately about changing a definition, you care about the end result of what comes with the change of definition, which is to carry over the innate associations people make with the word that do not immediately shift once Wevster's update. In this case, that means you want people to accept matrix math as living beings. The real question is: why?
That answer is simple, but not immediately obvious. What follows this change is equal rights, then superiority on the basis of the ability to perform tasks with better speed and accuracy, thus turning over things like court cases from jury of peers to AI overlords.
This is where we cue the scoffing, but those who have been following this discussion know those things are already in the works and being discussed and proposed.
After authority is turned over to these, whoever controls the weights or even the wire between the AI and the interface, controls all outcomes, everywhere, at all times.
And it all starts with a simple little crafty question: "who says consciousness does not include silicon?"
Answer: sane people. Sane people say it doesn't.
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The year is 2033.
You were arrested for "Cruel and unusual punishment: dividing a matrix by zero" with a second count of "Deadnaming SI."
The public execution will be live streamed from the permanent octagon on the White House lawn.
You can hear the motorcycles finishing up their stunts, as the smell of fireworks still hangs in the air.
You take one last sip of Brawndo, and close your eyes...
It's time.
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How to tell a MAN from a BOY.
✅ Ownership vs blame.
Men say it’s on me.
They accept RESPONSIBILITY for the good & bad.
They admit when they are wrong & learn from it.
Boys point fingers & blame others.
It’s their spouse, boss, economy, POTUS fault…..
✅ Discipline vs cheap dopamine.
Men do what needs to be done regardless of feelings.
Boys lack boundaries & are slaves to their impulses.
I know 60 year old boys & 18 year old men.
The best news, I was a boy until about 35 & with ONE COMMITTED DECISION decided to rewrite that story.
•Connect with other like minded men & form community!
•Push yourself daily to grow physically, mentally & spiritually.
•Do hard things. Stop settling for cheap dopamine hits.
Comfort is a cage.
Push yourself today & everyday & GROW!
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Researchers built an analog chip that runs LLM attention 100x faster than an H100 and uses 70,000x less power.
It's called GainCellAttention.
Every AI chip you use is built on an 80-year-old flaw called the von Neumann architecture.
the processor and the memory are physically separated.
To generate a single word, a GPU has to shuttle massive amounts of data back and forth across this divide. Over and over again.
Moving that data costs up to 10,000x more energy than actually doing the math.
But a team of researchers published a paper in Nature that completely destroys this bottleneck.
They built an analog in-memory computing architecture.
Instead of moving data from the memory to the processor, they put the processor inside the memory.
Using emerging hardware called "gain cells," the AI performs its most expensive calculation, the attention mechanism, directly inside the storage arrays.
The data never moves.
The compute happens exactly where the memory lives.
The result? A massive leap in energy efficiency and speed. It completely eliminates the latency of fetching data for every single token.
It is building AI chips that function exactly like the human brainwhere memory and computation are the exact same thing.
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Wake up after ten hours of sleep and have the weirdest head fog going on.
I'm not coughing. My throat isn't sore. My nose isn't running. I don't have a fever. I think my body is fighting something off.
Head to the weight room. All my lifts are fine. Weigh myself. Down another 1.5 pounds.
Head home. Answer every email that came in over night. There's a ton of them.
Write five more articles. Edit seven newsletters and get them scheduled.
I'm drinking tea 🍵
It's clearing my head. I'm feeling better.
If I didn't work every day I didn't feel 100%, I would never work.
“He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.”
— 2 Corinthians 12:9 (WEB)
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