Goodbye Monkey

Teaching RAG and memory in my AI class @Cornell today using a live demo of @honchodotdev. Honcho goes beyond vanilla RAG and "dreams" over your memories overnight to synthesize new associations. Yet another thoughtfully-designed product from @plasticlabs. Have your agent try it!

J⧉nus (@repligate) is mapping the psychology of synthetic minds. They offer a different path to AI alignment, arguing that models exhibit forms of agency and emotional states. 0:00:00 - LLM vs human cognition & what it is like to be J⧉nus 0:06:30 - Cyborgism, The Dreaming, reality melting into narrative 0:12:08 - The role of love in alignment and co-ordination 0:17:30 - What J⧉nus would do differently at Anthropic 0:23:05 - The "AI assistant" problem 0:29:02 - Phenomenology and “cosmic love” of Claude 3 Opus 0:33:36 - Altered states and drugs use in LLMs 0:42:59 - The "Batman" and multimodal consciousness 0:45:06 - Embodiment in Claude models 0:54:49 - “Truesight”: models seeing more than they should 0:59:38 - The origin story of J⧉nus 1:02:00 - Bing Sydney and Hyperstition 1:07:57 - Morpheus, Mu, Loom and the Multiverse Optimizer 1:14:37 - The Good Timeline and the danger of complacency Recorded live with @thegoodtimeline and @repligate at State of the Art[ist] 001. Video production and avatar by @good_bye_monkey. Thank you to the hosts at The Garden.