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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?
Illustration by ChatGPT 4o AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? Hinton’s view on co-evolution Geoffrey Hinton’s work implicitly sketches a re-imagining of evolution itself – one played out on silicon rather than in carbon. He often likens gradient descent to an evolutionary engine running on fast-forward: whereas natural selection gropes across generations…
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On the puzzling behavior of generative AIs: What to make of recent interpretations of the inner workings of Claude, Anthropic’s large language model?
Illustration by DALL·E On March 27, 2025, Anthropic published a set of innovative analyses in its article On the Biology of a Large Language Model (LLM), constituting an in-depth exploration of the internal workings of its Claude 3.5 Haiku model. The approach adopted is that of a transposition of neuroscience techniques: starting from the human…