I find it interesting Anthropic’s intelligence versus cost curve is concave up, that is, increasingly increasing as more money is spent. Of course not having a scale on one axis means the curve could have been any shape desired. Even so, the popular perception seems to be, rather than a diminishing rate of return, that there is an increasing rate of return as neural networks increase in size.

If really true, that’s an easy way to sell lots of hardware.

I applaud this subtle testing of emerging LLM controversies, by the TNP Studio-Garage AI Labs (TNP-SGAIL), beyond the scientific quest for etymological clarification on whether “the deliciously sensible French-born Roman emperor, who ruled between Caligula and Nero”, or, Claude Shannon (as reason, logic, and good sense “may” have it, … maybe!), is the namesake for Anthropic’s LLM, and into the recently suggested potential for metacognitive and self-awareness abilities of Claude Opus. That potential was suggested by Alex Albert on Monday ( https://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1764722513014329620 ) after an all-dressed pizza in a barn-full of straw bales test (or needle in a haystack).

In my current understanding then, the TNP-SGAIL’s expert Voight-Kampff testing unequivocally demonstrates, both conclusively and convincingly, that the AI replicant under study is “Not yet” an android teenager dreaming of electric sheep. This thankfully saves us from having to hire Blade Runners to administer the related pocky-clypse (or some such), at this time! d^8

I asked Claude 3 Sonnet if it knew what it was named for, and it said it didn’t, and I then told it that it was probably Claude Shannon, and its creators could have shown it courtesy and respect by telling Claude its own origin story. To which, it said it could see how I was right but it didn’t have any feelings to be hurt.

Not yet, anyway. HA!

I quite like that Claude Shannon and mouse (Theseus, the minotaur’s maze solver) picture! A world-first example of machine learning from 1950 ( https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138508/mighty-mouse/ ).