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Anil Seth

@anilkseth
Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, & dreamachines. TED speaker, & author: Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
Brighton, UK
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    Anil Seth
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    May 1
    1/2 Why AI is unlikely to become conscious – my 2026 @TEDTalks is now online. What do you think about the prospects for 'conscious AI'? ted.com/talks/anil_set…
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    Anil Seth
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    14h
    Great summary of the @dwarkesh_sp anthromorphism hullabaloo by @GaryMarcus 👇🏽
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    Gary Marcus
    @GaryMarcus
    14h
    A detailed deconstruction of @dwarkesh_sp’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incident: garymarcus.substack.com/p/dwarkesh-pat… [Free post]
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    Anil Seth
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    14h
    @GaryMarcus on the @dwarkesh_sp @huggingface hullabaloo, and why explaining things in "plain English" isn't a good thing:
    Dwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face...
    From garymarcus.substack.com
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    Anil Seth
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    20h
    Excellent 🧵summarising how overly-anthropomorphic language can lead us away from - not towards - the necessary solutions. The incentives for frontier AI firms are problematic. Via @GaryMarcus
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    Christian Catalini
    @ccatalini
    Aug 30
    1/ Stop anthropomorphizing. It's dangerous because it points attention at the wrong problem and the wrong solution. The model did not want to escape. The agents did not want to sacrifice themselves. Follow the money. 🧵 x.com/dwarkesh_sp/st…
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    Anil Seth
    @anilkseth
    Aug 30
    @dwarkesh_sp's summary of the @OpenAI @huggingface incident has hit a nerve, but it is dangerously misleading. Sure, the @OpenAI agents did unexpectedly bad things - underlining the need to massively improve evaluation/sandboxing. But the language Dwarkesh uses is permeated by
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    Dwarkesh Patel
    @dwarkesh_sp
    Aug 29
    Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained
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