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Jeremie Harris: Realistic Alignment and AI Policy

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Importance of Transcendent Reality

I think there's a similar thing that happens in AI when we look at what these models are doing, and how that ties to what reality is. You know, you have this attempt to like describe the reality so well that you almost capture the idea of awareness, the idea of consciousness in the equations somehow. So, on the side you have like your equations that accidentally give rise to consciousness by being instantiated in the form of functioning models. But inside that model is going to be representations of the world right embeddings and just like representations that are semantically meaningful. And at what point, obviously, to those things start to become like valid simulations of the world that are so accurate that

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