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Neural Networks for Machine Sentience: A Doctoral Thesis
My doctoral thesis examines whether the Transformer architecture — the engine of GPT-4, Claude, and every modern large language model — can be a substrate for machine sentience. Here is the argument, the evidence, the conclusions, and why none of them are simple.
Read article →The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Architecture of What Comes Next
A deep look at the arc from AlphaGo's Move 37 to AlphaFold's Nobel Prize — and what the evidence suggests about the civilisational future Hassabis is trying to build.
Read article →The Culture: Iain M. Banks's Blueprint for the Post-AGI Future
Ten novels, one civilisation, and the most sophisticated imagining of a post-AGI future ever committed to fiction. Why the Culture series is the blueprint every serious thinker about AI should read — and why Demis Hassabis already has.
Read article →The AI Reckoning
Understanding the risk posed by AGI is like standing at the foot of an accelerating train track — you can debate the speed or the destination, but wisdom lies in stepping off the tracks before exponential acceleration leaves you no time to move.
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