In September 2024, OpenAI released a new family of models called o1. The company described them as “reasoning”...
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Google Executive's Warning: 'Sentient in Every Possible Way'
In September 2024, Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, appeared in a widely circulated video...
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Consciousness as a User Interface: The Illusion of Volition
On September 24, 2024, OpenAI began rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT subscribers. The feature allows real-time...
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Viral Claims: Assessing the 'Claude 3' Self-Awareness Incident
In early March 2024, a post from an Anthropic prompt engineer went viral. Alex Albert had been running...
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Testing the Boundaries: The 'Sparks of AGI' Paper Revisited
In March 2023, a team from Microsoft Research published a paper titled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early...