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Physician, computational neuroscientist, biologist.

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Marek Kowalski

Physician, computational neuroscientist, biologist.

Solving for the Necessity of Phenomenal Consciousness

For better or worse, biological consciousness continues to inspire our thinking about machine consciousness. It is our only available source of testable knowledge about the phenomenon. Only some, or none, or all of these insights may eventually apply to digital minds: extrapolate with caution. That said, we should be more...

Measuring Activation Control in LLMs

TL;DR * Inspired by the introspective awareness and CoT controllability papers, we made a benchmark to measure how well models can control their activations while completing a simple task. * We are motivated by the concern that highly introspective models could control their activations, confounding probes and other monitors, and...