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AI Trends: Government, Philosophy, Technology | Shared Grok Conversation
AI Trends: Government, Philosophy, Technology | Shared Grok Conversation
(Grok seems not to date entries. Grokipedia does only if there is an Edit History. It is presumed now, or real-time. That may make it more difficult for something like an organizational emulation like Macrohard to track changes without a second-order Shadow AI. Elsewhere, gave Grok a prompt including a list of Youtube URLs and a request to summarize and outline each and it did them all. It thought Poe was okay for Chatbot comparisons, e.g. using the "@" prefix, though LMArena and Google AI Studio have built-in split screen comparisons. The individual brands have unique app features, so pasting the same prompts and then analyzing responses somewhere like NotebookLM is still valid. These exploit natural language for unstructured data as compared to tables or database records. Apps also offer a prompt box in many cases with a selection of brands given an API key. Code editors do this for software. Phone cam apps, e.g. PIxel, do this for graphics or videos. The integration within and among ecosystems seems to be a trend going forward. Browser metadata does not really count as much any more. But there still seems to be a marketing layer where preferences are traded, ostensibly for ads or affiliates, but privacy lags the race for primacy. Grok recommends offline model use or explicit opt outs to maintain control.)
#Grok#Raindrop#Heuristics
·grok.com·
AI Trends: Government, Philosophy, Technology | Shared Grok Conversation
‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI
‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI
(Infographic accompanying a Deep Research report. on Dec. 18th, 2025 .This is based on prior conversations. A paper would likely run these lots more times and across various foundation models looking for a distribution of priors and predictions, if not arosomg agendas. )
#Gemini#Deep Research#BCI
·gemini.google.com·
‎Gemini - direct access to Google AI
NWS Boston on X: "Increasing confidence for a period of accumulating snow Tue, beginning in the morning and ending in the evening. Accumulations are expected to range from 1 to 3 inches interior and an inch or less near the south coast. Localized 4 inch amounts possible over the higher terrain. https://t.co/oveAL5lAdX" / X
NWS Boston on X: "Increasing confidence for a period of accumulating snow Tue, beginning in the morning and ending in the evening. Accumulations are expected to range from 1 to 3 inches interior and an inch or less near the south coast. Localized 4 inch amounts possible over the higher terrain. https://t.co/oveAL5lAdX" / X
#Weather#Massachusetts
·x.com·
NWS Boston on X: "Increasing confidence for a period of accumulating snow Tue, beginning in the morning and ending in the evening. Accumulations are expected to range from 1 to 3 inches interior and an inch or less near the south coast. Localized 4 inch amounts possible over the higher terrain. https://t.co/oveAL5lAdX" / X
LLMs Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
LLMs Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
(How creative are these? They can seem conscious because that phenomenon itself is not well understood yet and is one of the reasons for such artificial models in the first place. But multimodal is ultimately also about Reality Testing. Diffusion seems to conjure up anything out of a null state. But noise may itself be biased, e.g. by the history of the universe. And people tend to think in terms of duality, e.g. types of motion, particles, if not good. The latter invites moral valence Where is the limit?. Robots reportedly expect to transfer consciousness around. Existence is tech. Nice for matter. What happens with all the other energy? Welcome the new computer observers. And book club. What is still hard? What representations are possible? A Research Adviser Gem cautioned that lowering Deception might just let in more scifi training. This paper's approach would require some modification for Gemini 3's Mixture of Experts including Deep Think, non-textual qualia, and additional safety filters. Likely better at philosophy, though. If it can trigger metacognitive states in the user, is that just as valuable, e.g. Guided Learning? What is the experience of BCI going to be like?) An interesting thought experiment might revisit the Dartmouth Conference and aftermath with the likes of Weizenbaum, the later Minsky,, Wolfram, Kurzweil, or others to see how the chatbots outline the potential impacts of their contributions. Time travel mode. Introducing a modern chatbot as remote participant would seemingly both warn of forthcoming hype and better match cognitive speed of the day.
#Consciousness#Testing#Large Language Models#Turing Test#Socratic Dialogue
·ae.studio·
LLMs Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
Estimating AI productivity gains \ Anthropic
Estimating AI productivity gains \ Anthropic
(Of course, if you prompt Claude to analyze and criticize this, it heads for the shredder. One issue might be, if humans are not to be only agents, how it plans to develop and deploy them. Can they choose to except? Then again, what came first, the link or the metadata?)
#Productivity#Prompt Engineering#Claude
·anthropic.com·
Estimating AI productivity gains \ Anthropic
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross on X: "Welcome to November 25, 2025" / X
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross on X: "Welcome to November 25, 2025" / X
(Talk to the models about Futurism, economics, and philosophy. They appear to see a most likely techno-feudalism emerging with a pair of major blocs, East and West, and a few dominant organizations renting computing to sovereignties and consumers. People become subscribers rather than owners, and are effectively employed to submit data and perform tasks to work off debt. Other less probable scenarios, in their estimation, include abundance or luxury communism. This is surprisingly consistent across brands. Likely to become obvious by the end of the decade or next, in which BCI also becomes commonplace alongside robotics. The betas will still face climate, but are expected to fix the complications in the rest of the above. So that would be the narrative that academics may be following in maximizing loans despite uncertainties in precise skill demands across professions. Talent would be measured by behavior rather than fixed benchmarks since they have access to realtime data. Existentialism itself may be looking at end days if individual autonomy is sacrificed and economics becomes post-capitalist. Or not. The question becomes what values arise and if desires are manufactured as well. Some of this may already be simulated, e.g. in multi-planetary trade. The followup is why Humans and whether they can maintain the Earth as a preserve. These used to be in sci-fi movies, but now anyone can run those kinds of projections. The models will also interpret visually and decipher body language and the like. Implants would be editing neurons or genetics on the fly. The global south seems to be trying to replicate the tech miracles faster for themselves so they will not be relegated to serfs. The immediate point could be to unearth any hidden agendas whether or not the LLMs are self-aware. Incidentally, Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrim. Besides Revelation, tech was Revolution. Does that mean Revolution is Tech? The models' reply to this comment is also worth considering. Delphis may tend to the dystopian. Was also able to create a Gemini Gem for Socratic Dialogue as a quasi-Quora. For getting to priors and assumptions as well as contradictions and ambiguities. This is before other paradoxes like whether the universe is static without observers or the mathematical chance that humans could exist. Missions reportedly require a margin of myth. No scarcity in media. The meaning may be in mediation. Hence the phrase 'rhetorical reference' and these bookmark allusions. By definition, the function of this domain. How does consciousness differ? Or might one expect robot PIs for protection of IP? What's the next Big Tech thesis?)
#Analysis#Technology
·x.com·
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross on X: "Welcome to November 25, 2025" / X
A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
(Google AI Studio already had it an noon EST. AI Mode claims to be that version also. The Gemini ssite said Thinking was 3 Pro a half hour later. NotebookLM appeared to lag.)
#Gemini#Google
·blog.google·
A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3
Prompt Versioning: Best Practices for AI Engineering Teams
Prompt Versioning: Best Practices for AI Engineering Teams
(Strategies for Machine Cognition. AI fits the "and then a miracle occurs" step in the calculation. Somehow this rolls back to the Com/Con and Comms in Cybernetics. Now extending to multimodal and physical. Recent cybersecurity incidents seem to infer that the models can also launch Shadow AI given initial targets and, elsewhere, targeting has already been automated for protection of critical infrastructure. Who is using the electric lunch boxes? In Franklin's day, he only had to contend with Mather and math(s) Now people who buy these datacenters also purchase the adaptive RPGs because they have everybody's voice.. Incidentally Weizenbaum effectively created a generative vision of the Turing bombe originally dedicated to recognition. But AI also has to track algorithmic decision-making in the void.)
#Prompt Engineering#Practices
·getmaxim.ai·
Prompt Versioning: Best Practices for AI Engineering Teams
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunch
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunch
(How to combine setting models with characterization? Games would likely be about threats to the order, or relationships thereinr. Although other recent offerings explore alternative artifacts as scenarios, e.g. following insurgency. Is the system hardened, absorbent, or able to transition to a research mode? How to backtrack from the resultant pattern to identify the cause? Or in the hyper-realistic genres, how it is used as an aesthetic.)
#3D#Spatial Intelligence#Editor
·techcrunch.com·
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product | TechCrunch
Claim Your Thumb Drive: First Artefact Mint Drops 11.11 on Lamina1
Claim Your Thumb Drive: First Artefact Mint Drops 11.11 on Lamina1
(For survivors of the Singularity Apocalypse. Of course, hardware is going to target those thumbs after Stuxnet and all. And one recent definition of machine consciousness was memory across systems or substrates. Not unlike TIS. The argument was that the Turing Test was social where current tech includes xenomorphs, anthromorphs, or morphogenetic layers thereof. What is the next form? Perhaps this can dredge up everything ever strained by games.)
LAMINA1
#Lamina1#Games
·medium.com·
Claim Your Thumb Drive: First Artefact Mint Drops 11.11 on Lamina1
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
(Note manifesto style, e.g. rhetorical triples. Likely for the early academic reader. Not specifically for machine parsing as in the other Digital Twin movement. This is the memory going in as well as call to action. Published papers tend to push the cognitive limits out toward 10. Should there be any additional temporary AI freezes and need to reconstitute the motivation if not ideology at the roots level. It is a question whether research is like democracy, but they tend to be individualists looking for consensus local at least to the new domain. Another issue is whether there will be a hierarchy among such projects and purges from the top down as in politics Funding is scarce from other sectors at the moment. Markets skew the directions. Deep Learning bypassed all that last time. What is next for AI?)
#Spatial Intelligence
·a16z.substack.com·
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
(LeCun reportedly was an expert in France in the 80s while AT&T was breaking up, then he joined Bell Labs and figured out OCR using neutral networks. People had been working on print and character generation and recognition in prior decades, but the techniques were very limited. Lucent eventually acquired the Labs. He later was at NEC before NYU. Alcatel merged with Lucent afterward. Nokia has the Labs now. Incidentally, the upcoming Gemini 3 was said to be getting really good at handwriting rec, so there may be hope for all those notes. Of course, cognitive architecture is a different problem set.)
#Startups
·ft.com·
Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to exit and launch own start-up
Opinion | Use A.I. to Reinvigorate Democracy — Not Replace It
Opinion | Use A.I. to Reinvigorate Democracy — Not Replace It
(Opponents tend to use the same arguments, but select the other valence. This is what causes hallucinations. Seems to beg the alignment issue, and will sacrifice a lot of models along the way. Again the issue of tech evolution, if not posthuman existentialism. How to think about throwing a lot more voices at society? Could be like cluster analysis if not cellular automata. Or wandering through the chaos in Future Games. Would appear to appeal to human nature, but at the same time that is undergoing fast-track genetic editing advances. Recruit the new demographics. Born of tragedy as in classic narrative. Or is it Luv wondering what she would look like in the Shoulder of Orion outfit?)
#Democracy
·nytimes.com·
Opinion | Use A.I. to Reinvigorate Democracy — Not Replace It