Archive - The Gradient

Philip Goff: Panpsychism as a Theory of Consciousness

On phenomenal transparency, physicalism vs. anti-physicalism, hybrid cosmopsychism and its assumptions

Dec 12 •

1:00:04

🔮 From ChatGPT to a billion agents

2025 will be the year of agents

Published on Exponential View • Dec 6

November 2024

October 2024

Jacob Andreas: Language, Grounding, and World Models

On grounding, language and the world, agents, and world models.

Oct 10 •

1:52:42

September 2024

Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents

On things that are not what they seem; and reflections on the Longform Podcast.

Sep 26 •

1:19:58

Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment

On distinctions between fields, technological determinism, disability and AI, and why generative AI research needs more humanism.

Sep 12 •

1:37:44

Update #83: AI Music Fraud and PlanSearch

We look at the mechanics of AI-assisted music streaming fraud; researchers develop a new algorithm for LLM code generation that leverages inference time…

Sep 11 •

Mini-Update #47: First International AI Safety Treaty and the WavTokenizer Codec

The UK signs on to the first international AI safety treaty and a novel audio codec model allows for high-quality information transmission in fewer…

Sep 10 •

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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

Kenneth Li argues that LLM chatbots are missing a "goal" for each conversation and proposes fixing this with human-in-the-loop model evaluations.

Sep 9 •

Davidad Dalrymple: Towards Provably Safe AI

On provably safe and beneficial AI and the UK's new research funding agency.

Sep 5 •

1:20:50

August 2024

Clive Thompson: Tales of Technology

On writing about the climate, theories of change, the anthropology of technologists, and where AI might be going.

Aug 29 •

2:27:34

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