when I was first introduced to ben (an ML PhD student!) he said his research was “directly inspired by passages in Umberto Eco's A Theory of Semiotics (I know, it may sound crazy)” very cool to see stuff like “computational semiotics” and the weird things in human/meatspace you

What do disembodied notions of AGI miss? Benjamin Spiegel writes: “Instead of trying to glue modalities together into a patchwork AGI, we should pursue approaches to intelligence that treat embodiment and interaction with the environment as primary, and see modality-centered

When we get to 2028 and AGI hasn’t yet been achieved and LLMs are causing psychiatric problems and undermining democracy and cybercrime is an epidemic, insidious microtargeted ads are everywhere, nobody trusts anything, colleges no longer work, and climate change is worse, will

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Working on a follow-up to this on the emergence of syntax in writing systems. Looking for a student or collaborator with very strong JAX + RL skills, plus a deep intuition for how humans & animals perceive the world. We would start work in the fall. Email me your CV & a short