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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , November 29, 2023 Meta-Learned Models of Cognition I pass on the text of a recent email from Behavioral and Brain Sciences inviting commentary on an article by Binz et al . nbsp I am beginning to plow through the interesting text and figures and will mention that motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from . me Target Article : Meta-Learned Models of Cognition Authors : Marcel Binz , Ishita Dasgupta , Akshay K . Jagadish , Matthew Botvinick , Jane X . Wang , and Eric Schulz Deadline for Commentary Proposals : Wednesday , December 20, 2023 Abstract : Psychologists and
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , November 27, 2023 The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience Some interesting perspectives from Aru , Larkum , and Shine in Trends in Neurosciences . Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article's text from me . Highlights Large language models LLMs can produce text that leaves the impression that one may be interacting with a conscious agent . Present-day LLMs are text-centric , whereas the phenomenological umwelt of living organisms is multifaceted and integrated . Many theories of the neural basis of consciousness assign a central role to
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Sunday , November 26, 2023 Religious wars in the tech industry . In this post I continue to use MindBlog as my private reference library to put down essential ideas I want to hang onto by extracting relevant clips , in this case from the most recent essay by Venkatesh Rao Here are the : clips Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock , you’ve probably heard something about the short but dramatic saga that unfolded at OpenAI over the last week The Open AI saga doesn’t yet have a name , but I am calling it EAgate , after Effective Altruism or EA , one of the main religions involved in what was
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Sunday , November 19, 2023 AI is infusing our daily lives . Is it an existential threat As AI is being subtly melded into our daily lives by the Google , Apple , and Microsoft clouds there is continuing debate over whether it is or Isn’t an existential threat . This debate has been brought to a head by the sudden and unexpected firing of Open AI’s chief executive Sam Altman and has starkly exposed the philosophical rift in the AI community between those who are more or less concerned about the potential risks of its untrammeled development . How many , if any , guardrails should be in place I have
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , November 10, 2023 Personalized chatbots and wearable AI devices for melding AI with our everyday lives Personalized GPTs are here , but apparently not yet at the level of consumers like myself who don't want to do coding . I've been looking into making my own personal chatbot whose training data is 50 MB of my personal journal of about 20,000 pages . I would then like to query and chat with the resulting chatbot about events in my life since 1980. If anyone reading this has some advice , let me know Below are some URLs to my morning's reading : These links are to articles from Kevin Roose ,
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: : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , November 08, 2023 Self-Organization : Nature's Intelligent Design I was to pass on this link to a talk by Clint Sprott , who initiated the Chaos and Complexity Discssion group that I was an active member of before leaving Madison WI . I remain on their email listserve . The slides for the talk can be downloaded here Talk description : Clint Sprott , Professor Emeritus , Department of Physics , UW-Madison , explains that although we believe that complex patterns must have a complex cause , patterns may spontaneously arise . This self-organization which occurs in nature can be described
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: . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , November 06, 2023 Visual event segmentation alters higher-level thought . An interesting piece of work from Ongchoco et . al Significance Numbers can be unexpectedly powerful . Suppose you must provide the last two digits of your social security number SSN after which you are asked how much you are willing to pay for a bottle of wine . Though your SSN digits are irrelevant to your valuation judgment , they nonetheless influence numerical estimates , such that lower SSN digits lead to lower valuations and higher SSN digits , to higher valuations . Such anchoring” effects are extremely
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: Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , November 03, 2023 How our genes support our illusory selves the Baldwin effect I have been thinking about giving more explanation of a paragraph from my Oct . 25 post , A Materialist's Credo Modern neuroscience has proved that our experienced perceptions of sensing and acting are these predictions . They are fantasies , or illusions , as is our sense of having a self with agency that experiences value , purpose , and meaning . Everything we do and experience is in the service of reducing surprises by fulling these fantasies . An array of neuroendocrine mechanisms have evolved to support this
