Mathematicians have come up with a way of comparing infinities that doesn’t make sense to most people. I want to help. So, I’ve written this to do the following: Explain how you probably compare infinities Explain how mathematicians compare infinities Provide a mathematical framework for how people usually compare infinities…

I think it may be helpful to include a debate of this piece between me and GPT-4, as the debate may help clarify some of the ideas. Me: Give three strong arguments against the "main argument" of the following article: ``` <pasted article> ``` GPT-4: 1. The article's main argument…

This is a snippet. I’ve been facilitating a course on Artificial General Intelligence Safety and having conversations with people at the University of Minnesota’s Natural Language Processing Lab about how we ensure that AI has a highly positive impact on humanity. A lot of these conversations have to do with…

This piece is important. I’m a PhD student in natural language processing (NLP), the area behind AI models like ChatGPT and Siri. I’m writing this article because I want to warn people now about a trend I’m seeing in NLP research where the ethics papers describing how bad this trend…

This piece is important. For years, I’ve been trying to understand when we should consider artificial intelligence (AI) systems to be conscious. For me, to be conscious means to have an experience, or, in my words “to have the sensation of sensing”. Along this journey, my questioning has shifted away…

This is a snippet. I’ve had this idea on my mind for about a year, but I haven’t found the time to work on it, and I don’t think I have the resources to make it successful, so I figured I’d post about it in case someone can make it…

This piece is based on this incredible video and this amazing in-depth article, so if you want to learn more, please visit these resources. Introduction It took me years to understand how the attention mechanism inside of the transformer architecture works, so I made this article as an explanation meant for…

Sometimes I see people being dragged online for upvoting (or “liking”) content that’s highly contentious or espouses unpopular views. …

This piece is meant to clarify and simplify the main philosophical idea behind my college senior thesis. The core idea of my thesis, which I think is missing from a lot of conversations about artificial intelligence (AI), is that humans judge things not only on their current behavior, but also…