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Emerson Collective (2004)
The Atlantic Monthly (1857)
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James Somers
The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
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The Case That A.I. Is Thinking | The New Yorker
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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Doris Tsao
James Somers
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025)
What Is Thinking?
What Is Thought? (2003)
Children
“Neuroscientists have to confront this humbling truth,” Doris Tsao, a neuroscience professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told me. “The advances in machine learning have taught us more about the essence of intelligence than anything that neuroscience has discovered in the past hundred years.”
Artificial neural networks compress experience just like real neural networks do. (really?)
The gist of Baum’s argument is that understanding is compression, and compression is understanding.