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  • . . AI: Prophetic's Halo: The Future of Conscious Experience Through AI and Brain Imaging? (4.19.24)

. . AI: Prophetic's Halo: The Future of Conscious Experience Through AI and Brain Imaging? (4.19.24)

AI Speed Performance, Open Source AI, Neuromodulation Technology

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Marshall Kirkpatrick
April 19, 2024

Friends, Llama Llama Llama! Get it? That's 3 Llamas. Llama 3's launch this week continues to dominate the AI news space, but if you'd like to think about something else - the lucid dreaming company Prophetic has published their vision of "providing an on-demand conscious experience."

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First impacted: AI researchers, AI developers

Llama-3 is currently leading in the open source AI model race, according to the blind taste test leaderboard at lmsys.org. While testers continue to prefer results from GPT-4 Turbo (the current leader in a 3 way tie), GPT-4 1106 preview, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini Pro (all proprietary models), Llama 3 70B Instruct is now tied for 5th place with Claude 3 Sonet, beating Cohere's Command R+, several models of GPT-4, Claude Haiku, and the Mistral models. One of the easiest ways to try Llama 3 as an end user is here on Poe. https://poe.com/Llama-3-70B-T [Chat with Open Large Language Models] Share this story by email

First impacted: Neuroscientists, Consciousness Researchers

Prophetic, a consciousness research company that says they are building lucid dreaming technology, has published a blog post about their work developing a program that uses AI and brain imaging data to construct models of brain-states. The company's device, The Halo, is said to generate these brain-states through neuromodulation, providing an on-demand conscious experience, and uses EEG for reinforcement learning to improve the models. "While important, [AI] interpretability as just described is largely a pursuit of utility. When applied to neural transformers, we believe it takes on a far more profound character - a tool for searching for the mathematical theory of consciousness." [Qualia Takeoff in The Age of Spiritual Machines — Prophetic] Share this story by email

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That’s it! More AI news on Monday!