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Claude 3 notices when a sentence about pizza toppings doesn't fit with its surrounding text. Whole internet including Tim Sweeney and Margaret Mitchell concludes that it's probably self-aware now. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And our current blinkered focus on STEM and only STEM has made it so that many (most?) of those most involved in AI R&D are woefully underequipped to make a sound judgment on such a matter.

who would be equipped to make a sound judgment on such a matter?

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Philosophy majors.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago

Don't even have to be majors, an introductory course in epistemology does wonders in breaking ones self-confidence, in a good way.