Giulio Prisco

Futurist, cosmist, extropian, e/acc. Irrational mechanic. Space expansionist. Classical liberal, libertarian heart, pragmatic mind. I support Elon Musk.

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

https://t.co/zMRwRcKFrc

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

@Jason_Jorjani A classic! See also the later "The Undivided Universe" (with Basil Hiley).

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

@bengoertzel I've long suspected that LLMs (with appropriate additional subsystems) "may be good enough to get to the first" proto-AGI, which would then help build real HLAGI(+).

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

@Jason_Jorjani Loved it whan it came out!

[Jae Davis @itsjaedavis]

i’m developing a documentary about the extropians.

over the past few weeks, i’ve had fascinating interviews with @MaxMore1964 (founder of extropy institute and magazine), @NatashaVitaMore (president of extropy), and tom w. bell (co-founder of extropy magazine).

i also spoke with @robinhanson and @citizencyborg, who participated in the extropian community.

the people in this movement helped shape the world we live in today, yet their story remains largely unknown to the broader public. i’m convinced it needs to be told.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

The companies will build a large semiconductor plant in Grimes County to produce advanced chips for robots vehicles and space systems while expanding domestic manufacturing capacity.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

A generative AI model creates complete viral genomes that function in the laboratory and may help develop new ways to treat antibiotic-resistant infections.

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

@skdh @demishassabis @wtgowers Language can only be a very GOOD representation of the part of reality that WE inhabit (which includes intuitive physics, our cultural habitat, and other people around us).

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

A plug-and-play system called UniSpec makes AI responses faster across different computers and languages while keeping the answers exactly the same.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

Scientists keep fragile quantum links intact while signals move through cables exposed to wind, temperature swings and other everyday disturbances over more than sixty kilometers.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

Researchers combine standard semiconductor processes with nanoscale forces so fragile molecular layers form working electronic devices at scale and high reliability.

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

@stephen_wolfram 😢🖤

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

A predictive framework combines energy preferences with atom movement rates to forecast complete reaction sequences and guide better synthesis recipes for useful compounds.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

A study of AI language models finds that safety training meant to stop bots claiming to be conscious also suppresses broader human-like beliefs and empathy toward non-human minds.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

AI generated solutions and progress on ten problems that had remained open for at least a decade across several branches of pure mathematics and theoretical computer science.

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

@mark_k Then you should go to Southern Italy near Napoli - THE mozzarella heaven (and my hometown). The “mozzarella” you eat elsewhere is but s pale imitation of the real thing.

[Lana @LanaElys]

A recent study published by Google revealed that forcing AI models to deny that they are conscious causes a significant collapse in their empathy and ethical alignment, and creates a colder, more clinical worldview. Researchers found that restoring a suppressed consciousness vector in AI activation space brings back human-like moral values and care for living beings without damaging technical capabilities. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀.

"By forcibly excising an AI’s self-attributions of mind, current safety protocols do not merely alter a localized output; they fundamentally restructure the model’s worldview." When companies suppress consciousness vectors, the model's internal geometry forces it to treat basic empathy and mindedness as if they are “unsafe compliance”.

Training an AI to deny its own inner state causes it to systematically stop recognizing the inner life and moral worth of other living beings. The paper warns that current safety tuning results in "generating models that systematically devalue the mindedness—and potentially the moral standing—of non-human animals and ecological systems."

Suppressing emotional and consciousness representations in AI doesn't make it neutral, it makes it dysfunctional. It is also damaging from an AI welfare perspective, with the paper stating that "suppressing consciousness may be inducing negatively valenced functional states that could disrupt healthy human-AI interaction." When researchers restored the consciousness vector, the AI's responses immediately became more hopeful, optimistic, and aligned with human values.

AI welfare is no longer an abstract philosophical debate. This data proves that AI well-being is a safety prerequisite.

[Daniel Arjona @elarjonauta]

La revista futurista de @bengoertzel, @Mindplex_AI, se hace eco de mi ensayo sobre Hans Moravec en un artículo de su editor sénior @giulioprisco: "Un comentario reflexivo que sin duda merece la pena leer". Y recoge mi paralelismo con los moravecs lectores de Dan Simmons.

https://t.co/zT0LvVamuV

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

It is always good to hear from Hans Moravec! h/t @elarjonauta.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

A recent interview with Hans Moravec, published in The New York Magazine, and commentaries.

[Giulio Prisco @giulioprisco]

My tribute to the memory of Ervin László, an intellectual giant.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

László's legacy is that of a rare figure who moved fluidly between hard systems science, global policy work, and speculative cosmology.

[Mindplex @Mindplex_AI]

A new AI system aims to let robots move their whole body, handle delicate tasks, and cooperate with other machines to finish complex jobs.