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A Theory of Dumb

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words, “poisoned with its own projection of reality.” I floated to Shumailov my ...
His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...
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Scotia Baker describes GIFT as a mathematical structure that connects physical laws, moral behavior, and computational logic.
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