
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Does Claude Have Private Thoughts? (Everyone Settle Down) | AI Reality Check
July 16, 202631 min
Show notes
Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News. Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia (0:00) Anthropic’s new research report (2:05) Digging into the paper (3:32) High level tutorial on LLMs (6:18) Detail on annotations (13:50) What the Anthropic paper found (20:39) Why this is interesting research (26:28) Conclusion on consciousness Links: Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter.
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