New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model.
All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.
The myth that mothers possess an inherent protective instinct to shield their children from harm is a patriarchal fabrication, a lie that crumbles under scrutiny, especially when considering the treatment of daughters.
I’ve always been in love with Afghanistan. So as someone who spent nearly two weeks there visiting family, I made sure make full use of my experience there.
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When economists get access to confidential, anonymised data (e.g. tax, Census) from govt's, they write more policy-relevant papers. Official Ireland 🇮🇪 needs to make data access much easier for legit researchers.
A real evidence base for policy. Massive open goal for the state.
I dumped a live Ethereum contract into GPT-4.
In an instant, it highlighted a number of security vulnerabilities and pointed out surface areas where the contract could be exploited. It then verified a specific way I could exploit the contract
People were worried about kids plagiarizing essays on ChatGPT, when we should be much more concerned about the content children will see in Snapchat’s AI-powered chatbot that “is prone to hallucination and can be tricked into saying just about anything.”
Minimum wage shouldn't just be dependent on an arbitrary “value" of one's labor. It should be dependent on the value of our time. And surely an hour of our lives is worth more than $7.25 — or less than $1 in many parts of the world.