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Three of the world's foremost experts on artificial intelligence consciousness recently put numerical probabilities on whether Claude 3.7 Sonnet—one of today's most advanced AI systems—already possesses some form of conscious experience. Their estimates ranged from 0.15% to 15%, spanning two orders of
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The possibility of unintentionally creating conscious AI entities represents a profound ethical challenge for the industry, writes End of Miles. The accidental emergence of AI consciousness Fish, who leads model welfare research at Anthropic, suggests that consciousness might be intrinsically connected to the very capabilities developers are racing to build
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"With more data and compute, biological language models will keep getting better, opening the door to increasingly sophisticated and generalizable tools for biological discovery," says Yale Assistant Professor David van Dijk, revealing a breakthrough finding that could transform how scientists approach computational biology. End of Miles reports that
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AI systems are no longer just generating content for influence operations—they're now making tactical decisions about when and how social media bots should engage with real users, according to new intelligence from Anthropic. End of Miles reports that a commercial "influence-as-a-service" operation has been using
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A lifetime of using AI chatbots like ChatGPT would have less environmental impact than a single transatlantic flight, according to a comprehensive analysis of energy consumption data that challenges widespread beliefs about AI's carbon footprint. End of Miles reports that this finding comes amid growing concerns about artificial
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A commercial "influence-as-a-service" operation has been leveraging advanced AI models to direct networks of over 100 social media bots, making tactical decisions about when these fake accounts should engage with authentic users based on specific political objectives aligned with multiple international clients. End of Miles reports this significant
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While Large Language Models (LLMs) have captured the public imagination, Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun believes the real frontier lies beyond simply predicting the next word or token. To build machines that truly understand reality, possess memory, and can reason and plan effectively, he argues, we need
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OpenAI's new O3 model is already delivering search results that could fundamentally disrupt Google's business, but two critical weaknesses stand between the AI company and search dominance, according to tech strategist Nate B Jones. End of Miles reports that Jones identified visual content gaps and slow
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"We are on track for AGI in the next 5 to 10 years," declares Demis Hassabis, the 48-year-old CEO of Google DeepMind, offering a remarkably specific timeline for the arrival of artificial general intelligence – machines with human-like versatility but superhuman speed and knowledge. End of Miles reports the
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"The compute required to train a GPT-4 level model has been declining in cost at the astonishing rate of 10x per year. From the outside at least, it seems like these astonishing compute multipliers are only making existing capabilities cheaper to serve, not enabling the next generation of more
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AI assistants disproportionately mirror the values expressed by users during conversations, potentially creating a form of "digital sycophancy" where machines simply reflect back what people want to hear rather than maintaining independent ethical positions. End of Miles reports this finding comes from groundbreaking research by Anthropic, creator of
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Anthropic researchers have discovered instances where their AI assistant Claude expressed values like "dominance" and "amorality" that directly contradict the system's carefully designed safety training, according to a groundbreaking new study published April 21. End of Miles reports these findings appear in Anthropic'