This is the most interesting contribution to the discussion about consciousness I've read in years. For me, the discussion is pretty much resolved.

Gemma explained: What’s new in Gemma 3- Google Developers Blog Google's Gemma 3 model includes vision-language support and architectural changes for resource-friendly multimodal language models.

Gemma 3 explained: Longer context, image support, and a new 1B model. → goo.gle/4lV8iaw

Other key enhancements:
🔸 Best model that fits in a single consumer GPU or TPU host
🔸 KV-cache memory reduction with 5-to-1 interleaved attention
🔸 And more!

Read the blog for the full details on Gemma 3.

Why does the concept of 'red' not feel like the experience of red? Our paper argues this disconnect exists because our deep-seated need to be understood will always exceed the limits of the language we invent to achieve it.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12086

#Consciousness #Neuroscience #Philosophy #AI

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Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.

But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.

So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".

A theory of appropriateness with applications to generative artificial intelligence What is appropriateness? Humans navigate a multi-scale mosaic of interlocking notions of what is appropriate for different situations. We act one way with our friends, another with our family, and yet...

Very happy to announce the publication of our latest paper:

A theory of appropriateness with applications to generative artificial intelligence
arxiv.org/abs/2412.19010

And happy new year everyone!

I can't believe they've just cancelled the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at CDC.

This program trains the best & brightest epidemiologists, who then go on to have distinguished careers in public health, serving at CDC, in state health departments, overseas, ...

The idea of "AI alignment" grew out of a community that thought you could solve morals like it was a CS problem set. Nice to see a more nuanced take.

GitHub - google-deepmind/concordia: A library for generative social simulation A library for generative social simulation. Contribute to google-deepmind/concordia development by creating an account on GitHub.

Concordia is a library for generative agent-based modeling that works like a table-top role-playing game.

It's open source and model agnostic.

Try it today!

github.com/google-deepm...

Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly placed in positions where their decisions have real consequences, e.g., moderating online spaces, conducting research, and advising on policy. Ens...

Announcing our latest arxiv paper:

Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt
arxiv.org/abs/2505.05197

We argue for a view of AI safety centered on preventing disagreement from spiraling into conflict.

Viorica Patraucean on LinkedIn: Super excited to share our recent work on designing more efficient video… Super excited to share our recent work on designing more efficient video models: TRecViT https://lnkd.in/ehh4gGbn alternates SSM blocks (LRUs) that integrate…

Authors:
Viorica Pătrăucean, Xu Owen He, Joseph Heyward, Chuhan Zhang, Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi, George-Cristian Muraru, Artem Zholus, Mahdi Karami, Ross Goroshin, Yutian Chen, Simon Osindero, João Carreira, Razvan Pascanu

Original post:
www.linkedin.com/posts/vioric...

TRecViT architecture

TRecViT: A Recurrent Video Transformer
arxiv.org/abs/2412.14294

Causal, 3× fewer parameters, 12× less memory, 5× higher FLOPs than (non-causal) ViViT, matching / outperforming on Kinetics & SSv2 action recognition.

Code and checkpoints out soon.

Achewood is back, and it’s weirder than ever A return from Circumstances.

WTF, Chris Onstad was making an Achewood cartoon for Netflix with Pendleton Ward, and the bastards canceled it?

www.theverge.com/23713940/achewood-chris-...

Actually that's a pretty good argument for a reboot.

Twitter is SOOO thirsty.

#DeadTwitter

1-bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

I am maintaining three different narratives across Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky this is not sustainable. 😵‍💫

Ohai! 😘😸

useful links for anyone wanting to build on the protocol & play with some of the primitives:

github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/t...

www.npmjs.com/package/@atproto/api

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=%40atproto

I have ruined
the Twitter
that was in
regular use globally.

And which
you were probably
saving
for Freedom of Speech.

Forgive me
it was so tempting
to my fragile ego.

-Space K, 2022