Bbenzon
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Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7356 )
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GPT4 Still Challenged by Artithmetic
References: The Faith and Fate Paper is available here: https://t.co/YaOYbPFZNuVideo of this great talk here: https://t.co/bT2MFhQH5D— Alex Dimakis... Read more
Posted on 16 August 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What If Rachmaninoff & Gershwin Co-composed a Piano Concerto? (ft. Yuja Wang,...
Tonebase Piano 145K subscribers Listen to the Abrams Concerto! 0:00 Intro – "People are still writing piano concertos?" 3:37 Chapter 1 – Piano concertos from... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Emergent Self-repair in Language Model Computations
The Hydra Effect: Emergent Self-repair in Language Model Computationspaper page: https://t.co/e8oycGaZCvinvestigate the internal structure of language model... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Meaningless Jobs
Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms https://t.co/9fdJWP4gHT via @physorg_com— Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) August 2, 202... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Current LLMs Can Be Tricked in Ways That Would Never Trick a Real Human
LLMs output impressively human-like text, but are just pattern replication algorithms trained on human-generated prose. A vivid illustration of this... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Open Source LLMs
When language models first gained recognition, most LLMs were only accessible via APIs. Although this seemed to be a new standard, the proposal of a few... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What Kind of Smart Device Passes AP Exams but Can't Play a Decent Game of...
5/5 So even when we achieve general human-level performance ("AGI"), AIs likely to still have incomparable skills to humans, and will continue to have this for ... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Strangler Fig Tree
This is a strangler fig tree, Inside this tree is a hollow space where a different tree stood The strangler fig's seeds have made their way into the canopy of... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Speculative Look at the Current AI Business Ecology
6 months ago it looked like AI / LLMs were going to bring a much needed revival to the venture startup ecosystem after a few tough years. Read more
Posted on 18 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Who Owns the Gates to Culture and Knowledge?
Julia Angwin, The Gatekeepers of Knowledge Don’t Want Us to See What They Know, NYTimes, July 14, 2023. From the article: We are living through an information... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Do AI Companies Have the Right to Harvest Anything Anyone Uploads to the Web...
Sheera Frenkel and Stuart A. Thompson, ‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I., NYTimes, July 15, 2023. From the article: Ms.... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Breathing in Waves: Understanding Respiratory-brain Coupling as a Gradient of...
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Posted on 14 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Neural Basis of Color Perception
As an aspiring brain scientist, my project was to discover the brain implementation of Opponent Colors Theory, the accepted explanation of color appearance. Read more
Posted on 09 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Rethinking Covid: A COVID Dissenter Speaks Out
Glenn Loury Jay Bhattacharya | The Glenn Show 0:00 The problem with scientific consensus 6:36 Why Jay and his colleagues were branded “fringe... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Insect Conscsiousness
In “What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness”, the authors argued that even insects (like the fruit fly), has a capacity for subjective... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Fruit-fly Connectome
Not only have they mapped out the fruit fly brain, but they actually boot it up in a computer and made it “eat” and “groom” đ¤Ż... Read more
Posted on 02 July 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Network Structure Shapes Decision-making for Bio-inspired Computing
Schirner, M., Deco, G. Ritter, P. Learning how network structure shapes decision-making for bio-inspired computing. Nat Commun 14, 2963 (2023).... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy
Grégoire Delétang, Anian Ruoss, Jordi Grau-Moya, Tim Genewein, Li Kevin Wenliang, Elliot Catt, Chris Cundy, Marcus Hutter, Shane Legg, Joel Veness, Pedro A.... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The New World Disorder | Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman
1:31 China’s role in Saudi-Iran rapprochement 7:10 The legacy of Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal 12:25 Does Israel have a Palestine plan? Read more
Posted on 03 June 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why AI Can't Be Conscious
The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of biologyWe raise three arguments (neural complexity, Umwelt 'skin in the game') to suggest... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2023 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
