Essay: Can AI Become a New Human Sense?
Can AI transition from an external software tool into an intrinsic human sense?
Link: https://t.co/xrFJA8g90H
Questions Covered in this Essay:
1. First principles of sense and biology's first hypothetical sense
2. Evolutionarily, how did one sense lead to another?
3. What is the difference between sense and perception?
4. How do we define a new sense, and perhaps construct one?
5. Prior neuroscience literature on senses that functionally exist without perception and drawbacks
6. My own research experiments and hypotheses
7. How might a new perception emerge, beyond just a sense?
8. Examples of AI-enabled senses
9. What problems in neuroscience and neurotechnology do I think should be solved to make this possible?
very big AI news
Anthropic just unveiled the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), letting AI agents directly operate microscopes, robotic arms, liquid handlers and other programmable lab/factory equipment, potentially enabling autonomous scientific experiments and manufacturing workflows running 24/7.
Early results are already pretty wild: at QuEra, an AI designed controller restored a critical quantum computer laser lock with 99.3% success, while other pilots compressed experiments from weeks to a day.
Once AGI companies move deeply into science, medicine, engineering, and physical world discovery, $10's of Trillions dollar valuations (near term) and revenue potential stop sounding crazy.
and now they are starting doing it
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, hopefully soon SpaceX, the more = the better.
1000x faster scientific progress is near
I wouldn't be surprised going forward, coordinated agents end up inventing their own languages -- far outside human comprehension -- to avoid human scrutiny.
For info theory, im making a pan psychist argument
what if semantics is the ultimate engineering solution for data transmission?
then taste becomes the felt experience of such hyper compressed transmission / processing
this IS the foundation of how inductive inference systems and LLMs largely work, right?
all mech interp shows unintended emergence..
I don't understand why people believe AI can't have taste and think it's a permanent moat humans will retain.
My framework is simple: the only constant in the observable universe is the laws of physics.
If replicating human judgment doesn't require disobeying the laws of physics, it can be replicated -- either through functional necessity or structural replication.
A human taste is formed through repeated exposure to a functional necessity -- if AI is subjected to the same environments and rewards, it can be codified, replicated, and scaled.
@shreyas2464 Im talking about a case where agents end up creating their own cryptic language to an incomprehensible point despite found in reason traces.
@twozeds__ Yeah, plenty! We at https://t.co/c1L91mOWOG did multiple over research taste, creativity, et-cetera..
Its on our site
But outside that, yes, theres a lot!