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Avery Edison
@averyedison.com

sigh

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

Avery Edison
@averyedison.com

This is just nonsense, the New Yorker helping Anthropic out with some marketing. An LLM cannot plan, it doesn’t think, it’s not reasoning, it generates a sentence in a moment.

iamwil
@interjectedfuture.com

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, is it for all intents and purposes, a duck? If by a hardline definition, one says no, then a plane does not fly if it doesn’t flap its wings? Philosophy aside, the latest models with agent harnesses are astonishing good at writing software.