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There is a precedent for establishing internationally agreed-upon limits for new science, though it can be hard to do.
The Lessons of Asilomar for Today's Science - NYTimes.com
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When Max asked ChatGPT to help him out with the sprinkler at the park, the model wasn’t just spewing text. The photograph of the plumbing was compressed, along with Max’s prompt, into a vector that captured its most important features. That vector served as an address for calling up nearby words and concepts. Those ideas, in turn, called up others as the model built up a sense of the situation. It composed its response with those ideas “in mind.”
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking | the New Yorker
James Somers
I think people got quite grumpy about this idea that you can take people and sort of remove those inner voices because the inner voices aren’t just there to torture you. There’s a lot of uses for inner voices that maybe act as a conscience or a sort of a handbrake on things that don’t feel right.
Q&A: How DARPA Hacked a Science Writer’s Brain and Turned Her Into a Sharpshooter
Sara Goudarzi
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