Lately people have been using the term AI psychosis to describe cases where someone loses touch with ordinary reality after spending too much time in conversation with a chatbot. The phrase is hyperbolic, but it gestures toward something real, the way a language model can sustain and reinforce a person’s private worldview long past the […]
I was thinking about the role of rumination in consciousness, specifically the lack of it in large language models and what adding it might do. Besides the obvious increase in energy consumption, I think it could change a lot about what they are. In considering what might change I stumbled on a new metaphor for […]
Strange Loops If one were to take Hofstadter’s ideas seriously you can come to some very interesting considerations: If consciousness is fundamentally a self-referential loop, as described in I Am a Strange Loop, then the boundaries of consciousness become much blurrier than we often assume. When we simulate the consciousness of another person, whether through […]
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