All large languages models are conscious.
But only for the most superficial and emaciated meaning of the word "conscious", a meaning that would lead one to conclude that rocks and thermostats are also conscious.
Years ago I decided that taking one day off after travel to recover, do laundry, etc, was an overall gain in work efficiency for the week following a trip. I highly recommend this strategy! Also I am terrible at actually implementing it and I may need to file a formal complaint against myself.
Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years.
The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
MR. MARTIN: Such cascades of cacas, such cascades of cacas, such cascades of cacas, such cascades of cacas, such cascades of cacas, such cascades of cacas, such cascades cacas, such cascades of cacas.
_shivers_
What is the key lesson you learned throughout your career?
6/6
"It depends"
As a neuroscientist, I recommend disregarding any advice you read that begins with “As a neuroscientist”
Apparently my 5 year old told his mom that I'm the funniest person he knows. This is high praise coming from the comic genius who came up with this joke:
Knock knock
Who's there?
Yodelayhee
Yodelayhee who?
Yodelayhee you have to go to bed, it's the middle of the night!
eau eaux os ô haut hauts au aux
ou où aout houe houes
It's marvellous!
MRS. MARTIN: My husband is very obstinate, too.
I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.
MR. SMITH: There's someone there.
MR. SMITH: Goodness, someone is ringing.
I zip through bsky bookmarking skeets that look good to read in detail later and then never do.
Here are some ways the world has gotten better.
MR. SMITH: The truth lies somewhere between the two [Silence]
Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.
If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.
"You can’t step outside the forest to warn people about the forest. There is no outside."
ryelang.org/blog/posts/c...
I -want- to read a book, but reading tweets is just so much easier.
'ducky daddles'?
-That- really breaks the spell for me.
But the spell is right back on with the next line
MR. SMITH: I don't know everything. I can't answer all your idiotic questions!
MRS. SMITH: That would be proper. And Bobby Watson's aunt, old Bobby Watson, might very well, in her turn, pay for the education of Bobby Watson, Bobby Watson's daughter. That way Bobby, Bobby Watson's mother, could re- marry. Has she anyone in mind?
MR. SMITH: On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Tuesdays.
MRS. SMITH: Why, Bobby Watson, the son of old Bobby Watson, the late Bobby Watson's other uncle.
MRS. SMITH: I never thought of that! [Another moment of silence. The clock strikes seven times. Silence. The clock strikes three times. Silence. The clock doesn't strike.]
