Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. https://t.co/OVVPJO7VQx
Philosophy of Mind, particularly the work of Hubert Dreyfus, is going to be more and more necessary to help people understand why the things that Hunter is talking about are insufficient for either consciousness or personhood.
Back in the day it was german scientists that helped us get the bomb before Germany, nowadays it's chinese scientists helping us get SuperintelIigence before China
Somewhere in the past 6 months AIs started processing more tokens than the sum of humanity's speech, not the fairest comparison but an important milestone in the ratio of digital to biological intelligence. Sometime next year there would be more words coming out of AIs than all of humans.
Once retraining is cheap and frequent and an agent is prompted continuously at real world speed intervals, it would be very hard to argue AIs don't have a degree of consciousness