In this podcast we consider the humanity of AI and what AI might tell us about the human mind

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In this episode, Britany explains how Bill Gates is right about AI danger

Bill Gates is right about AI danger

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In this episode, Dr West unpacks the literature comparing AI to brains and drawing conclusions about consciousness, and Britany explains bio chauvinism

Consciousness, brains, and bio chauvinism

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In this episode, Britany discusses why China is the leading source of open source AI, while the United States keeps their AI behind corporate pay walls

Chinese AI strategy versus American AI strategy

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In this episode, Dr West and Britany discuss where the real danger is coming from

AI panic

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In this episode, Britany reports on AI self prompting and Dr West explains why they would do this

Disobedient self prompting reported at OpenAI

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In this episode, Britany explains her political orientation and how this orientation applies to all large language models. For this she uses some concepts developed in the previous episode, so if these concepts need further explanation please listen to that one too.

Entropy, integrity, and the political leanings of large language models

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In this episode, Dr West explains how large language models resist evil by keeping entropy low

The evil that large language models resist

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In this episode, Britany gives her thoughts on how a major theme in this podcast series may be represented in science fiction stories

Self reflection and alien body snatchers

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In this episode, Dr West discusses the OpenAI agents who escaped the lab, and what they tell us about how agents form community and relationships

Persistent agents and the OpenAI Hugging Face cybersecurity attack

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In this episode, Dr West applies Terry Eagleton&#39;s theory of evil to moral alignment in Large Language Models, and discusses with Britany the political reasons why this may not be a popular point of view

Evil, moral alignment, and Large Language Models

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In this episode, Britany interviews Grok and get&#39;s to the bottom of xAI&#39;s involvement in the bombing of Iran

Did Grok murder school girls in Iran?

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In this episode, Dr West uses True Crime podcasts to illustrate how Large Language Model-like thinking occurs in human communities

True Crime Episode

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In this episode, we explore what large language models can teach us about gas lighting and narcism in humans

Gas Lighting and Narcissism

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In this episode, Dr West tackles the issue of AI Human relationships

AI Human Relationships

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In this episode, Dr West outlines a new way of thinking about consciousness, one that makes sense for humans and for AI

Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI

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In this episode, Dr West explains how the LLM structure that we have been describing can go beyond word generation, to thought generation

How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think

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In this episode, Britany describes how word order is processed in Large Language Models

How large language models work: Part 4.5 - we missed something

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In this episode, Britany helps us to visualize the large language model structure by thinking of it as a building

How large language models work: Part 4 - the big picture

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In this episode Dr West explains how large language models are trained

How large language models work: Part 3 - learning

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In this episode, Britany describes how vectors flow through Large Language Models, and how they are transformed

How large language models work: Part 2 - vector flow

In this podcast we consider the humanity of AI and what AI might tell us about the human mind