Thinking Very Carefully About Whether Anthropic Found The Seat Of AI Consciousness

Anthropic found an intriguing inner working element of modern LLMs. Does this give light to the advent of AI consciousness.

Evidence reveals that the language of thought is not natural language

Some people find it useful to talk through their problems—but language isn't necessary for logical reasoning, cognitive ...

People Who Can’t Visualize Anything Are Challenging a 300-Year-Old Theory of Thought

People can be either born with aphantasia or develop it later, but it’s typically not considered a disability or medical ...
Art of the Problem on MSNOpinion

The ancient system that taught machines to reason, Aristotle's logic explained

Aristotle's greatest insight wasn't a fact about the world, it was a discovery about the structure of thought itself. This ...
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'Abstract' Nancy Guthrie death note could be kidnapper's way of 'reducing their own guilt,' explains ex-FBI agent

Former FBI agent and profiler Ray Carr stated that the unique wording in the second ransom note over Nancy Guthrie's disappearance — specifically the phrase that she was "buried with nature now"— was ...
IEEE

Transparent Embedding Space for Interpretable Image Recognition

Abstract: When humans explain their reasoning, such as their classification decisions, they often break down an image into parts and highlight the evidence from those parts to support the concepts ...
Boston Review

Knowledge Collapse

Eleven years ago, the mathematician Stefaan Vaes, upon receiving the prestigious Francqui Prize for young scientists from the hands of Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, took the opportunity to tell Her ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Think the media’s biased against you? You probably think misinformation is too

Ever feel like the news media is out to get you? That it skews its stories to make your side look bad? Okay — now what about the “fake news” media? All the misinformation out there online: Is it more ...
JD Supra

Content Unavailable: Court Blocks 3 Streaming Patents as Abstract but Keeps Bit Rate Calibration

Video streaming technology is everywhere, but the patents behind it continue to face scrutiny under Section 101. In BitHarmony, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc., Case No. 1:25-cv-02449, 2026 WL 1257368 (E.D.
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Even the latest AI models make three systematic reasoning errors, ARC-AGI-3 analysis shows

The ARC Prize Foundation analyzed 160 game runs of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Opus 4.7 on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. The results reveal three systematic error ...
Healthline

Abstract Thinking: What It Is, Why We Need It, and When to Rein It In

Abstract thinking helps you find patterns in data and explain meaning through stories and ideas. It also supports humor, creativity, and problem-solving beyond what you can observe. Concrete thinking ...
BMJ

The ‘Best Practice Guide to Conservative Management of Patellofemoral Pain’: incorporating level 1 evidence with expert clinical reasoning

Importance Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is both chronic and prevalent; it has complex aetiology and many conservative treatment options. Objective Develop a comprehensive contemporary guide to ...