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Featured Research • 2026
Transformer Prowess and Sycophancy Are Not Evidence of...
Transformer Prowess and Sycophancy Are Not Evidence of Consciousness TL;DR: A model’s eager agreement is better explained as a low-cost transformer behavior amplified by training than as a sign of understanding or…
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The Gnomic Failure Mode Behind Mode Collapse
TL;DR: Generative...
The Gnomic Failure Mode Behind Mode Collapse TL;DR: Generative models don’t fail only by producing bad samples; they fail more dangerously when they produce convincing ones while abandoning parts of the data…
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No Ghost in the Softmax
TL;DR: AI hallucination is not evidence...
No Ghost in the Softmax TL;DR: AI hallucination is not evidence of consciousness; it is the predictable result of optimizing likely continuations rather than grounded truth. Fluency is a trap. The invidious comparison…
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