i'm super confused by how this would cause anyone to update in either direction on ai consciousness did you not think that llms did intermediate computation in their hidden layers that would be picked up and used by attention at later token positions?
New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models. Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.
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I mostly think this is an exciting new interp method, I'm not really sold on the GWT stuff
Obviously the “just a stochastic parrot” people who’ve stubbornly refused “updating their priors” this whole way will continue to bury their heads in the sand as more and more devastating evidence comes in destroy their silly insistence.
there are nine million views on that video. who do you think those people are?