Andrea Gaggioli

New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model. All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.

@MishaTeplitskiy @paualsina Method without theory is blind, it's like separating the body from the mind

A new book that says new methods (not theory, etc) are the drivers of scientific discovery

A Self-Organizing Map Learns The Shape of Data

Talk of ‘conscious machines’ is useful as a metaphor, but metaphors can be dangerous if we mistake them for reality. Biological consciousness has deep roots in emotion, embodiment, and culture. Before declaring a machine ‘conscious,’ we should be very clear whether we mean genuine subjectivity or simply clever simulation and marketing language.

@RCarhartHarris intriguing! book title pls?

Life (collective global consciousness in the noosphere) after death (entropy increase as per second law). The longer curve of evolution that is forever building/growing/developing..:

A century after the birth of quantum mechanics, its puzzles are pushing physicists to redefine reality—with themselves at the center. Learn more: scim.ag/4pUAewD @NewsfromScience

Published "Responding to a Variety of Comments on The Varieties,” engaging w/ thoughtful critiques that sharpened arguments and clarified ideas. Grateful for the exchange. The paperback of The Varieties of Spiritual Experience is out soon—most accessible (cheapest) edition yet!

Breaking news: for the first time, a human being passed the #Turing test

@Rainmaker1973 Don't stop me now

Meta just dropped a new paper. "A Recipe for Generating 3D Worlds From a Single Image" Turn a single image into a high-quality 3D world ready for VR. 10 wild examples:

So they gave a mushroom a robot body and it learned how to crawl... ON ITS OWN! 🤯

Apple gets it. Robots are going to be everywhere, but they won’t look like robots. Check out their new paper ELEGNT. I believe this is the future of everyday objects: helpful and human.

Breaking Science News: NASA just published discovery of strong evidence suggesting that other biological life likely exists in the universe! This is such a profound discovery that I’m really surprised it hasn’t become top news! “Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise. On Earth, amino acids in living organisms predominantly have a ‘left-handed’ chemical structure. Bennu, however, contains nearly equal amounts of these structures and their ‘right-handed’, mirror-image forms, calling into question scientists’ hypothesis that asteroids similar to this one might have seeded life on Earth.”

What legal challenges does the clinical metaverse face? Researchers have developed the "LawVerse" framework to navigate legal issues in MedVerse health applications. doi.org/10.1089/jmxr.2… #vr #metaverse #xr

毎年恒例の #CES2025 まであと数日。どんなプロダクトが発表されるのかが楽しみ。とりあえず、去年のCES 2024で発表された面白かった内容をスレッドでおさらいします。Portalgraphによる全方位型VRプロジェクタ

This may look like a game of Counterstrike running slowly, but it actually extraordinary. The entire game is created, frame-by-frame, on my *home computer* by an AI diffusion model in response to my actions. There is no game engine, just a "world model" trained on Counterstrike

@Parsons_CNS congrats Thomas!!!

Received NIH award letter for $5.8 million dollar Roybal Center for Older Adults Living Alone with Cognitive Decline: Technology-Enabled Behavioral and Lifestyle Change to Delay Alzheimer's Disease and Improve Quality of Life

トイレ掃除ロボット(自律移動式) youtu.be/icaFZJugUAU ドアの開閉や蓋を持ち上げて下を掃除したり、水スプレーで壁や床の汚れを落として乾かしたりなど、黙々と綺麗にしていく。 #robotics #autonomous #ArtificialInteligence #bathroomcleaningrobot #toiletcleaning #getsomatic

全長2センチの高速走行可能な無線制御 昆虫型ロボット youtu.be/onanaCRu9ss #microrobot #insect_robot #legged_robot #locomotion #wireless_controlled #biomimicry #バイオミミクリー #BHMbot

Fascinating to watch. 1000 years of European borders change.