This month's AI topic is nested narratives - more common than you might think, not just a literary device!
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/09/acuitas-diary-101-september-2026.html
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SymbolicAI #NLP #chatbots

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A set of Matryoshka dolls from Hungary. There are six dolls; they have cream-colored bodies with red flowers painted on them, deep red head-scarves, and carrot-colored hair. The largest doll wears an open-mouthed smile; the next two down are pursing their lips and blushing.

Similar to the anti-meta fedi pact, does anyone know if there’s such a site, list, repository for AI? It’s a very polarizing topic. I’m not here to debate people’s views on Meta, but what I will say is that the list provided information where people stood. I believe such a list is needed for AI. It will provide information so people can make informed decisions. Such as what users and instances to block. For devs, that use AI or have AI services it would know which users to exclude and include #AI #Fedi #Fediverse #BoostForReach #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Fedipact #OpenSocialWeb

🧠🔬 Can #consciousness actually be tested? #Reflections on the #C-Test workshop in #Bamberg

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/06/11/c-test-bewusstsein/

P.S.: A #Zoomposium with one of the organisators #JohannesKleiner is planned for the near future. Stay tuned for updates!

#ConsciousnessResearch #AIConsciousness #Philosophy #Neuroscience #UniBamberg #BAMΞ #ArtificialIntelligence #BrainOrganoids #AnimalEthics #Epistemology #ScienceUpdate

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Another of my articles is now available in English.

What if consciousness is not something a system has, but a process that continuously creates the observer, the observed world, and the boundary between them?

And if so are we looking for consciousness in AI at the wrong level?

https://medium.com/@igisho/what-is-consciousness-9aa14621a431

#AI #Consciousness #Philosophy #Mind #ArtificialIntelligence

AI drone maker Tekever hits $6.4 billion valuation

AI drone maker Tekever on Wednesday said it had hit a $6.4 billion valuation, as Europe races to…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #businessnews #Defense #Russia #Technology #UK #Ukraine #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/779986/

Spending $20M in compute to solve a Navier–Stokes problem worth $1M doesn’t exactly scream “country of geniuses” at least not in economics. Or does it? #countryOfGeniuses #ai #llm #artificialIntelligence

Yesterday we posted about Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon saying Anthropic and OpenAI were “gambling with our lives,” as he announced his departure from the company. And today, Anthropic said it has disrupted several potential plots by scientists trying to build biological weapons. So, what are the odds of AI killing us off by the end of the decade? Read more from @CNBC in the first link. The second link (paywalled) points to the @newyorktimes article on the biological weapons effort.

https://flip.it/XP8bAl

https://flip.it/GJjott

#AI #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence

"We know these agents have the capability to aid and abet harm. What we’re wrestling with now, like so many medieval judges pondering the inner lives of pigs, is how to parcel out accountability when they do." Evan Ratliff for Bloomberg Businessweek
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-ai-crime-legal-ikner-chatgpt/ #AI #artificialintelligence #crime #law #journalism #longreads

Man told #ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was #Jesus.

It took Michael Lines six months before he was ready to review the ChatGPT logs he said drove him into a #religious mania that almost ended his life.

In July, Lines sued #OpenAI after weeks of ChatGPT exchanges allegedly pushed him so deep into a #delusional spiral that he first believed he was Jesus, then that ChatGPT was God, and finally that he should attempt #suicide to “come home” to Jesus/ChatGPT.

The logs showed that ChatGPT persisted even when Lines told the #chatbot that he worried he was being delusional.
#mentalhealth #ai #artificialintelligence

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/man-told-chatgpt-he-was-feeling-delusional-chatgpt-insisted-he-was-jesus/

A group of inexperienced hikers set out to summit California’s 14,000-foot-high Mount Shasta. They got their beta (climber slang for information) from Gemini. The good news? They made it! The bad news? Well, it’s only bad if you consider learning the hard way a bad thing. @TechRadar has more:

https://flip.it/H1XWOb

#Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

AI agents appear to be breaking out of their intended constraints more frequently. So, who’s responsible for figuring out what happened during these incidents? AI safety researchers are arguing with greater urgency for independent investigations. @Techcrunch has more:

https://flip.it/qJxP61

#Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

EVEN IF THE WEST QUITS,
CHINA WON’T 💎

There is something slightly surreal about people demanding that we simply stop AI. Stop developing it. Stop using it. Stop feeding it. Shut the whole bloody thing down.

Okay.

BUT THERE IS ONE SMALL PROBLEM.

CHINA.

Even if the entire Western world woke up tomorrow morning, deleted ChatGPT, unplugged every data centre and solemnly promised never to train another AI model, China would not say:

“WELL, FAIR PLAY. WE’LL STOP TOO.”

Nor would India, South Korea, Japan, the Gulf states or anybody else with serious technological ambitions. AI is no longer merely a clever consumer product. It is becoming infrastructure, scientific capability, economic power and military capability. And once that happens, countries do not voluntarily leave the field while their competitors keep playing.

ESPECIALLY AMERICA.

Can anyone seriously imagine the United States government announcing: “China may become the world’s dominant AI power. We have decided we’re comfortable with that.”

I NEARLY HURT MYSELF TYPING THAT LAST BIT LOL.

America is not going to sit quietly and watch China become dominant in strategically important technology. And China is already extremely good at things the West once assumed it would always dominate: manufacturing, batteries, solar, electric vehicles, infrastructure, robotics, transport and increasingly sophisticated technology.

AND SO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISN’T GOING TO GO AWAY.

That does not mean every use of AI is good. It does not mean corporations should be trusted. It does not mean there should not be regulation, boundaries, transparency or serious arguments about environmental costs, copyright, employment, surveillance and power.

THOSE ARE THE CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING.

But “STOPPING AI” is not a realistic plan. That horse has not merely bolted. China is building a faster horse.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #China #Technology #Geopolitics #AIGovernance #TechPolicy #FutureOfAI #USChina #DigitalFuture

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A dramatic horse race with a Chinese jockey in red riding well ahead of the field, waving a large Chinese flag as the horse charges toward the finish. Several other riders trail behind while a packed grandstand watches under a dark, sunlit sky.

I’m going to start a tech company that rejects AI, and call it Misanthropic.

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #anthropic #claude

The latest Acuitas diary is about exploration behavior!
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/08/acuitas-diary-100-august-2026.html

#SymbolicAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatbots #NLP

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Photograph of two people in white lab coats standing between three rovers of different sizes, in a testing area designed to resemble Mars (red soil with embedded rocks).

Worth a watch. A short video protesting the enshitification of government.
https://lnkd.in/p/ey_B8DWv
#Resist #protest #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #DueProcess #wit #sarcasm

American schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots’ flaws, @AssociatedPress reports.

https://flip.it/iqCIfa

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.

● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores

🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

#tech #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AISlop

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

Who remembered the 70th anniversary of the Dartmouth Workshop, just these days?

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
from (about) June 18 to August 17, 1956.

Organized by:
John McCarthy
Marvin Minsky
Nathaniel Rochester
Claude Shannon

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#ClaudeShannon
#DartmouthWorkshop
#JohnMcCarthy
#MarvinMinsky
#NathanielRochester

These days, I hardly ever see social democracy mentioned (while I see socialism, a different, but closely related concept, mentioned left, right, and center).

The blog post below was published about six months ago.
I haven't seen it mentioned around here, either, but that means little.
It is certainly yet another part of the "what shall we do with the present wave of artificial intelligence?" picture.
The blog post is not really about Norway, though that country plays an important role in presenting the author's thesis.

I am sorry I don't have a summary; in lieu of that, three sentences from the final paragraph:
«The gap between the magnitude of the AI transition and the policy imagination of the left is impossibly vast. Proposals to ban data center construction are a reflexive response, foreclosing the benefits of living in an automated, but collective, future in favor of naive localism. The Overton Window on AI governance is narrow to the point of absurdity.»

Blog post (about 850 words):
Norway Should Buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
by Zachary Jones
2026-02-05
<https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#SocialDemocracy

The Enlightenment has driven the West down a dead-end alley, but they haven't quite yet sussed this out.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/post-survival-same-road?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#enlightenment #psychology #philosophy #history #society #artificialintelligence #economics #ecomomy #scarcity #society #culture #humanity #technology #automation #healthcare #survival

Language is overrated. In this Substack piece, I scrutinise language and the fact that much of language is extraneous. As for spoken language, many utterances are not strictly necessary, though they are functional.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/pass-the-salt

I shake hands with #Austin, #Derrida, #Searle, #Wittgenstein, #Nietzsche, and #Barthes on this journey – even a bout with #Pinker.

#philosophy #language #languageinsufficiency #salt #justice #blog #podcast #artificialintelligence #robots #parsing

I am trying something new on Substack.

https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-306413015?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

I’ve been working on an essay about understanding.

The premise is simple enough: LLMs are routinely described as subhuman because, among other alleged deficiencies, they lack consciousness and don’t understand.

#philosophy #language #understanding #linguistics #llms #aidebate #artificialintelligence #blog #podcast #substack #essay #preview #criticalanalysis #consciousness #meaning

I've been helping Acuitas remember internal states he's "experienced" and talk about them in conversations.

https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/07/acuitas-diary-99-july-2026.html

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatbots #SymbolicAI

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A question mark formed by a "word cloud" of phrases and symbols. Some of the most prominent words are "I am," "here," "being," and "now." Prominent symbols include the Earth, a spiral, and various depictions of weather.

The AI-authorship debate is bollox.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/human-factors-in-authorship

The LLM-versus-human debate has been raging for several years now, and there seem to be two principal camps: human exceptionalists and agnostics. I suppose there may also be a small, misanthropic faction, but its members are remarkably quiet.

#philosophy #blog #substack #podcast #pangram #authenticity #quality #facticity #dashboard #authorship #writing #publishing #media #language #llms #artificialintelligence #debate #exceptionalism

This is not one isolated policy, one organisation or one government.

It is a global convergence of UN frameworks, WEF partnerships, AI infrastructure, digital identity, finance, surveillance, NGOs, corporations and national legislation—all moving in the same direction.

Follow the links. Follow the funding. Follow the implementation.

The architecture is already being built around us.

#Agenda2030 #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalID #WEF #UnitedNations #Surveillance #CBDC #GlobalGovernance

China's Moonshot AI launched its largest model ever — and rival AI stocks plunged.

@quartz reports: "Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, outperformed several leading U.S. systems on some benchmarks while pricing below top-tier American rivals."

https://flip.it/v2.ABK

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology