Benjamin Spiegel
@superspeeg
Brown CS PhD student
Why did only humans invent graphical systems like writing? 🧠✍️ In our new paper at @cogsci_soc, we explore how agents learn to communicate using a model of pictographic signification similar to human proto-writing. 🧵👇
Working on a follow-up to this on the emergence of syntax in writing systems. Looking for a student or collaborator with very strong JAX + RL skills, plus a deep intuition for how humans & animals perceive the world. We would start work in the fall. Email me your CV & a short…
Why did only humans invent graphical systems like writing? 🧠✍️ In our new paper at @cogsci_soc, we explore how agents learn to communicate using a model of pictographic signification similar to human proto-writing. 🧵👇
Welcome to your digital lobotomy
introducing @cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread):
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Some of those failures were very weird indeed. At one point, Claude hallucinated that it was a real, physical person, and claimed that it was coming in to work in the shop. We’re still not sure why this happened.
When we get to 2028 and AGI hasn’t yet been achieved and LLMs are causing psychiatric problems and undermining democracy and cybercrime is an epidemic, insidious microtargeted ads are everywhere, nobody trusts anything, colleges no longer work, and climate change is worse, will…
What do disembodied notions of AGI miss? @superspeeg writes: “Instead of trying to glue modalities together into a patchwork AGI, we should pursue approaches to intelligence that treat embodiment and interaction with the environment as primary, and see modality-centered…
when I was first introduced to ben (an ML PhD student!) he said his research was “directly inspired by passages in Umberto Eco's A Theory of Semiotics (I know, it may sound crazy)” very cool to see stuff like “computational semiotics” and the weird things in human/meatspace you…
Agents have no special-purpose language cognition—they must interpret signals using the same networks they use to perceive the world. But here's the catch: some things are just... hard to draw. Agents face a signification gap when referents are visually complex.