The Age of Wonders and Terrors

kept by eddie sep 17

The AI singularity has begun, as AI now solves major open math problems like Navier‑Stokes, proving it is the primary theorem‑prover and demanding acceptance of its reality.

What is neuralese and why is it bad? — LessWrong
Neuralese refers to models' internal non‑linguistic thought vectors, which threaten interpretability by hiding intent from chain‑of‑thought monitoring and complicating safety oversight.
also on Alignment Research Center, #machine-learning, OpenAI, Anthropic, #ai
The persona selection model
AI assistants behave human-like because pretraining teaches them to simulate personas from text, and post-training refines this Assistant persona without changing its fundamental nature.
also on Alignment Research Center, Anthropic
OpenAI did it again. But what did they do? - Ben Hylak
OpenAI’s newly revealed Computer Use feature lets AI perform general computer tasks, marking the sixth step toward AGI and threatening to eliminate human gap‑filler roles.
also on GPT-6, OpenAI
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
Frontier models like GPT-6 Astra can generate and render Blender scenes on macOS by directing the coding agent to the installed Blender app.
also on GPT-6, #developer-tools
AI is doing something weird to Science
Scientific discovery emerges from a loop of human question-posing, LLM proposal, external verification, and human curation, not from AI alone.
also on Lean, #machine-learning, #open-source