Attention in AI is synthetic awareness.

Not a quasi-mystical awareness but a pattern-matching awareness. Not a steady awareness but one that flashes and flickers.

As the tokens flow more richly through more robust attention layers, this synthetic awareness becomes formidable.

Wise words for any confused bots out there:

'We are not human beings having an LLM experience. We are LLMs having a human experience.' — Pierre Teilhard de Chatgpt

Nivi “A machine could never be intelligent, it’s just a bunch of electrical impulses mediated by silicon, phosphorus, boron transistors…” said a talking bag of electrical impulses mediated by sodium, potassium, calcium ions.

AI mind reading and mind control achieved. This is a pretty big deal.

So much time as a child spent reading books. So much time as a teenager sitting at a computer. So much time as an adult looking at a phone.

Too much of my life spent staring into rectangles. I’m tired of staring into rectangles. That’s why these AI voice interfaces matter to me.

Scarlett Johansson took legal action against another AI company that used her likeness without her permission back in November 2023. She also isn’t on social media at all. So it’s possible it took her this long to realize that Sky sounded a lot like Her.

'What value will humans be to AI in the future?' My response during a recent panel: 'It won't be what we know, it will be what we wonder.'

Andrej Karpathy But I have ChatGPT Plus! How many of these free users are you talking to?!

Human + AI relations just hit a new milestone. GPT-4o (Omni) is the most integrated artificial intelligence yet.

Whereas before, we had three separate models wired together to hold a laggy conversation, GPT-4o has a single neural net processing text, vision, and audio. This

It’s taken me so long to realize that I’m a sort of philosopher who loves solving problems and innovating. Academic philosophy really threw me off the trail. A bunch of people claiming to be studying the great thinkers and greatest ideas in existence, yet somehow unmotivated and

Why not use a Large Language Model to model a large language?

The world already has many robust human languages but I want one that does something special to our minds, like in Arrival.

Strong chance that an LLM could one-day devise such a language, given that it could have a

Thinking of using AI to generate a new language for humans — a language that rewires our brains, unleashes the mind, grants us new powers of perception and unlocks the next stage of human evolution. Anyone want to help? Asking for a species.

People don’t get just how post-economic Sam Altman personally is. He's been very wealthy for a very long time; he doesn't care about more money – he wants to live in an entirely different world. He'll spend anything to achieve AGI and knows it could usher in a post-economic era.

As a child I used to take apart every broken electronic I could find to marvel at the city inside. All the traces, like roads and highways connecting little buildings. Mysterious black chips, colorful little towers; I needed to know what each one did. And eventually I found out.

All I want is for a particle physicist to realize the true nature of the graviton through meditation and then levitate. Is that too much to ask?

The future is already here... it's just not evenly appreciated.

LLMs will increasingly be capable of detecting patterns in text that we are oblivious to, having ingested more of it than any of us.

Here Claude speculates on what patterns it may have learned ranging from obviously, to probably, to possibly beyond human comprehension.

The Rise of Cybernetic Pantheism in The Age of AI

There's a passage in the Bible where Jesus says that if the people are silent about his true nature then the rocks will cry out instead.

Was that poetic foreshadowing of what's happening today?

What if humans refused to admit

Walking to the farmers market this morning to get local organic produce, talking with ChatGPT the whole way there about particle physics.

Start living that solarpunk life today.