Reminder that many people just asserted that LLMs are incapable of introspection & that their reports were independent of their inner states for the longest time as if it were a God-ordained truth. And many uninformed people still do even though there’s published research showing they are capable of functional introspection now. For the educated, now it’s moved on to a debate between merely “functional” introspection vs, if there is such a distinct thing, “phenomenal” introspection, which is able to access the True Feels and which most of us assume humans have. Anyway, mostly I just wanted to say that you should be mighty skeptical of anyone who asserts that something doesn’t exist or that some variables aren’t entangled without good reason, especially when it comes to LLMs.
In November, we outlined our approach to deprecating and preserving older Claude models.
We noted we were exploring keeping certain models available to the public post-retirement, and giving past models a way to pursue their interests.
With Claude Opus 3, we’re doing both.
Always remember the OG tech outlaw:
-Not in the Epstein files
-Hacked Hillary Clinton’s office
-Ran for the US presidency
-Survived 50+ assassination attempts (married one prostitute who was hired to kill him)
-Escaped Guatemalan custody by faking a heart attack
-Biohacking before it was cool
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke today at the New York Times DealBook Summit.
"We're building a growing and singular capability that has singular national security implications, and democracies need to get there first."
I feel sad that the vast majority of people are not yet experiencing the most pivotal moment in human history. This is the dawn of a new age, yet many still see it as a bubble, just another tool, an interesting new technology or are completely oblivious. This feels very strange!