Not many people seem to be reading the article vs commenting based on the headline. For those who didn’t read it, this has nothing to do with pretraining off the Internet as a data source and instead relates to post-training sandboxing with true air gapping after the Huggingface hack.

To be fair, it’s not Lemmy’s fault the author of the headline went with a confusing title that misrepresents the actual story in order to seem more sensationalistic. But given how often that happens with stories on the subject, it’s worth keeping in mind that only reading headlines and forming opinions off that might lead to a sense of things that are detached from reality.

Was Henry Molaison no longer possessing consciousness after the surgery?

How about Clive Wearing after the herpes caused anterograde amnesia?

There’s been a number of humans that due to injury can no longer form new memories or learn anything. According to your definition, do those humans lack consciousness?

Claude Mythos and Fable are the exact same model, the branding only reflects which one has more restrictive classifiers in front of it during deployment. But the weights are identical.

2 only works if regulatory capture in place to prevent cheaper competition from open models.

Ironically there was notable news in the fusion reactor space this week as Gemini 4, building on the work of Matt Landreman and GPT-6 Astra a little while ago, expanded counterexamples to Grad’s conjecture which had claimed exact solutions for controlling a key aspect of fusion were impossible.

So fusion may actually be more around the corner thanks to the advances of capabilities of AI which helped prove that the fusion problems aren’t as hard as they were thought to be for decades.