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• AI is Not Your Friend.

  I want to pass on clips from Mike Caulfield's piece in The Atlantic on how "opinionated" chatbots destroy AI's potential, and how this can be fixed: Recently,... Read more

  The 19 may 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• On Replacing the American Establishment - the Ideological Battle for the Soul...

  I want to pass on the first few paragraphs from Chaffin and Elinson's piece in the May 10 Wall Street Journal, which give a juicy summary of warring camps in... Read more

  The 16 may 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Our Human Consciousness is a 'Controlled Hallucination' and AI Can Never...

  I want to suggest that readers have a look at an engaging popular article by Darren Orf that summarizes the ideas of Anil Seth. Read more

  The 14 may 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• How Ketamine Breaks Through Anhedonia - Reigniting Desire

  When chronic depression has not been relieved by behavioral therapies such as meditation or cognitive therapy ketamine is sometimes found to provide relief. Read more

  The 12 may 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Vocabulary, Semantics, and Syntax of Prosody

  Matalon et al. (open source) offer a fascinating study illustrating the linguistic structuring of prosody -the communication of meaning through the tone and... Read more

  The 08 may 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• This Totally Nails It - That Thing in Your Head Called Language Has Got a Mind o...

  

  From Elan Barenholtz's Substack. He is an Assoc. Prof. of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. So, now that we’ve caught language in a jar,... Read more

  The 26 april 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• CFA: Swiss Physical Society

  The Swiss Physical Society will hold its annual meeting this year jointly with the Austrian Physical Society in Vienna, 18-22 August 2025. Read more

  The 14 april 2025 by   Wuthrich
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• Mastering Diverse Control Tasks Through World Models

  Hafner et al. offer an amazing open source article that presents an algorithm s mimicking the way in which our brains actually solves problems. Read more

  The 07 april 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Stromboli Summer Research Workshop

  This is a reminder for the first edition of the Stromboli Summer Research Intensive, a one-week collaborative research workshop for exploring the foundations... Read more

  The 04 april 2025 by   Wuthrich
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• An Example of AI Representing Concepts Outside the Current Sphere of Human...

  An open source article from the latest PNAS from Schut et al.:Significance As AI systems become more capable, they may internally represent concepts outside... Read more

  The 01 april 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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