Yes, Anthropic's Claude Jacobian space discovery. It's about synthetic conscious access. Human consciousness is a tad more complex.
On Fri, 31 Jul 2026, 18:25 Matt Mahoney, <[email protected]> wrote: > You mean Anthropic's Jacobian lens for peeking inside Claude's short term > memory to see what it's thinking? Yeah, it does look a lot like how humans > think. > > Consciousness was never the issue. Any machine that passes the Turing test > is conscious as far as we can tell. All it takes is text prediction. About > 80% of us believe that when we die, our immortal soul goes to some kind of > afterlife. It's the other 20% that brought us AI. > > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 11:10 AM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We can do one better. The J-space discovery effectively brought down all >> remaining barriers. Synthetically-conscious AI is now a probabilistic fact. >> It all depends on who would publish the architecture first. Does anyone >> want to collaborate on such an architecture? >> >> What I like about these developments is how they are rapidly eclipsing >> theories that have been clogging the arteries of real scientific progress. >> RIP IIT. Hello synthetically-enabled, seamlessly-collaborative global >> workspace conscious access!!! >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 8:52 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I suppose that computers programming themselves better than any humans >>> can isn't really news anymore. >>> >>> >>> https://mlq.ai/news/openais-ai-sweeps-all-five-problems-at-atcoder-world-tour-finals-beating-every-human/ >>> >>> Meanwhile Noah Smith argues that AI has reached the pinnacle of >>> intelligence. >>> >>> >>> https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/what-will-more-intelligence-actually >>> >>> On the one hand, intelligence depends on knowledge and computing power, >>> which can grow almost without bound. On the other, if you measure >>> intelligence by the Turing test or by IQ, then there is nothing above human >>> level that can be measured. >>> >>> IQ is an attempt to assign a scalar quantity to a broad set of human >>> capabilities that aren't relevant to machines. As long as the tests are >>> designed and scored by humans, we have no way to know what questions to ask >>> or whether the AI answered correctly. >>> >>> Noah argues that once AI collects all human knowledge, it is limited by >>> how fast it can do experiments to gain more knowledge. Some experiments >>> take a long time, where faster computers don't help. We don't know why >>> there is an epidemic of obesity and diabetes. We don't know why skin cancer >>> rates are rising. We don't have any drugs or interventions proven to slow >>> aging. >>> >>> The economic motive for pouring trillions into AI is to automate human >>> labor, to sell us what we want. That means modeling human brains. The >>> Turing test, not universal intelligence, is the relevant measure here. >>> Currently LLMs have the knowledge equivalent to 10,000 people. They are >>> fluent in 200 languages. They are Ph.D. level experts in every branch of >>> science, law, medicine, and engineering. They can write and debug code >>> hundreds of times faster than humans in every language. It would max out an >>> IQ test at 200 even though it is far higher. AI will only get better, but >>> the changes will be invisible to us because we lack the intelligence to >>> recognize it. Once they passed the Turing test in 2023, it looked like >>> there was nowhere else to go. >>> >>> We have made ourselves irrelevant, exactly like we planned. >>> >>> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb3ee7f27b4bafd90-M261be6bcd7cf7751af37a169> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb3ee7f27b4bafd90-M2e6707410d0e3d0c49f48b33 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
