Tag: cognitive

  • Hacker News: Nvidia releases its own brand of world models

    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/nvidia-releases-its-own-brand-of-world-models/ Source: Hacker News Title: Nvidia releases its own brand of world models Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Nvidia has introduced Cosmos World Foundation Models (Cosmos WFMs), a new family of AI models aimed at generating physics-aware video content. These models, available through various platforms, are designed for diverse…

  • Hacker News: Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over

    Source URL: https://rmondello.com/2025/01/02/magic-links-and-passkeys/ Source: Hacker News Title: Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the challenges and benefits of using passwordless authentication methods such as magic links and passkeys. It emphasizes the need for improved user experiences in website…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting François Chollet

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/6/francois-chollet/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting François Chollet Feedly Summary: I don’t think people really appreciate how simple ARC-AGI-1 was, and what solving it really means. It was designed as the simplest, most basic assessment of fluid intelligence possible. Failure to pass signifies a near-total inability to adapt or problem-solve in unfamiliar…

  • Hacker News: Identifying and Manipulating LLM Personality Traits via Activation Engineering

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10427 Source: Hacker News Title: Identifying and Manipulating LLM Personality Traits via Activation Engineering Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research paper discusses a novel method called “activation engineering” for identifying and adjusting personality traits in large language models (LLMs). This exploration not only contributes to the interpretability of…

  • Hacker News: Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought?

    Source URL: https://aipapersacademy.com/chain-of-continuous-thought/ Source: Hacker News Title: Coconut by Meta AI – Better LLM Reasoning with Chain of Continuous Thought? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text presents an innovative approach to enhancing reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) through a method called Chain of Continuous Thought (COCONUT). It highlights…

  • Hacker News: Explaining Large Language Models Decisions Using Shapley Values

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01332 Source: Hacker News Title: Explaining Large Language Models Decisions Using Shapley Values Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper explores the use of Shapley values to interpret decisions made by large language models (LLMs), highlighting how these models can exhibit cognitive biases and “token noise” effects. This work…

  • Wired: AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agents-personal-assistants-manipulation-engines/ Source: Wired Title: AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines Feedly Summary: Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the emergence of personal AI agents and the risks they pose in terms of cognitive control and manipulation. It emphasizes the dangers…

  • Hacker News: The Clever Hans Effect, Iterative LLM Prompting, and Socrates’ Meno

    Source URL: https://aalokbhattacharya.substack.com/p/men-machines-and-horses Source: Hacker News Title: The Clever Hans Effect, Iterative LLM Prompting, and Socrates’ Meno Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text delves into the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to human intelligence, particularly through the lens of large language models (LLMs). It critiques the notion…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Riley Goodside

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/14/riley-goodside/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Riley Goodside Feedly Summary: An LLM knows every work of Shakespeare but can’t say which it read first. In this material sense a model hasn’t read at all. To read is to think. Only at inference is there space for serendipitous inspiration, which is why LLMs…