Are LLMs intelligent, or are we misled by their success? In this essay @melaniemitchell.bsky.social reminds us that LLMs can display astonishing capabilities in some domains while failing unexpectedly in others. We need to understand this if we want to use them wisely. yalereview.org/article/mela...
In this SFI Seminar, Eric Goles of the University of Adolfo Ibáñez explores fungal automata, a cellular automaton model in which information flows only horizontally or vertically. He shows that despite these constraints, it can simulate arbitrary Boolean circuits and are computationally universal.
A smart city has nothing to do with artificial intelligence or sensors. A city is smart when children can walk and cycle freely and safely. Technology is only a bonus.
📸 Picture by @dutchcycling.nl
1/5 A fascinating new #ctenophore preprint 🧵
Ferraioli et al. uncover a “ladder-like” neural architecture in the living comb jelly Mnemiopsis and connect it to preserved neuroanatomical traces in Cambrian fossils.
But the real importance isn’t the anatomy. It’s what the anatomy implies.
It's always a treat to read Ted Chiang's thoughts on AI.
www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
#ProtistsOnSky
1/8 Inside your body lies something ancient.
Our @pnas.org paper uncovers the deep unicellular prehistory of blood cell types. See paper and video.
@ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @icreacommunity.bsky.social
@prbb.org @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social
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Lior Steinberg
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How are the brain and immune networks linked? This is an open, important question. In this paper, @annaciaunica.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social argue that cognition emerges from the coordinated activity of multiple cellular networks throughout the body. www.rfsafe.com/wp-content/u...
How do social networks become adaptive? From self-organisation and phase transitions to cultural learning, social networks are shaped by feedback between individual interactions and collective dynamics. Check my new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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When we think about learning, we think about brains.
Neurons.
Animals.
But what if learning began much earlier?
Our paper in PRXLife, led by @maorknak.bsky.social explores whether a unicell relative of animals can use environmental cues to anticipate future stress. 🧵
Link: go.aps.org/4vAU56R
Importantly, social network complexity is only one dimension within the broader space of evolved cognition. When combined with individual (brain) complexity and, crucially, the potential for collective ecological engineering, two major solutions for the social conquest of Earth emerge.
