Yann Marchand

🧠 New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts 📍By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection. Whether that amounts to introspection is still an open question. That’s the central finding of Ben Brubaker’s November 4 article in @QuantaMagazine 🤖 The experiment: Anthropic researcher Jack Lindsey amplified activity patterns inside Claude associated with concepts such as denim or vegetables, without naming the concept in the prompt. The strongest Claude version tested correctly flagged the change and identified the concept in about 20% of trials. In that experiment, the unmodified controls never reported an injection 📍The follow-up is what caught my attention. Researchers found that models could still flag a disturbance even when their ability to identify the concept deteriorated. The injected signal itself may have nudged the model to mention the concept. Detecting that something had changed seemed to be a separate ability. 🧠 The neuroscience question. Detecting a disturbance could be closer to a reflex. A stronger test would ask whether the model forms a representation of its own thinking, something like I’m thinking about apples. Drawing that distinction is difficult even in humans, and these experiments leave subjective experience untested. Note: If a model flags an unusual internal event, its explanation of the event needs independent verification. #NeuroAI #Interpretability #CognitiveScience #LLMs quantamagazine.org/new-resea… @Khulood_Almani @Shi4Tech @jblefevre60 @dinisguarda @Eli_Krumova @ipfconline1 @HaroldSinnott @ThEiLe0 @Mack1510019 @drsharwood @EvanKirstel @ahier @RLDI_Lamy @Timothy_Hughes @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @mvollmer1 @jeancayeux @rvp @SusanFourtane @amalmerzouk @bamitav @Fabriziobustama @FrRonconii @domingonarvaez1 @c4trends @TerenceLeungSF @aure79lien @EstelaMandela @NevilleGaunt @stanleywaite1 @pchamard @corixpartners #Consciousness #ML #NeuralNetworks Credit: Kristina Armitage Quanta Magazine

🧠 SuperAger AI Connectome Predicts Alzheimer’s Years Early 🤖 What if the best way to understand Alzheimer's isn't by studying disease, but by studying exceptional brain health? 🤖 Researchers trained an AI called Alzheimer’s Resilience-Vulnerability Connectome (ARC) on the brain networks of "SuperAgers" (people 75+ with remarkable memory) and found patterns that may predict resilience or vulnerability years before symptoms appear. 📍Aging is not just about avoiding disease. It's also about understanding excellence. 🌱🧠 By @NeuroscienceNew #Neuroscience #AI #Alzheimers #ML #ARC 👉neurosciencenews.com/superag… @Khulood_Almani @Shi4Tech @jblefevre60 @Eli_Krumova @Timothy_Hughes @dinisguarda @drsharwood @ipfconline1 @EvanKirstel @ahier @HaroldSinnott @ThEiLe0 @margaretsiegien @Mack1510019 @RLDI_Lamy @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @mvollmer1 @jeancayeux @rvp @SusanFourtane @amalmerzouk @bamitav @Fabriziobustama @FrRonconii @domingonarvaez1 @c4trends @TerenceLeungSF @aure79lien @EstelaMandela @NevilleGaunt @stanleywaite1 @pchamard @corixpartners #NeuroAI #BrainHealth #Brain #HealthTech #Neurotech Design: Neuroscience News

🐑 The Hunting of the Haggis by @drsharwood (continued) 🐑The "Hunting of the Haggis" is an intriguing example of a cultural feedback system. Historically, it strengthened identity through playful participation and shared myth. In the digital age, the haggis becomes a metaphor for navigating complexity itself. The hunt shifts from seeking a mythical creature to discovering emergent knowledge within networks of people, data, and technology. The tradition survives not by resisting change, but by evolving into new forms of collective sense-making. That adaptive continuity is, perhaps, the most cyber-systemic lesson the haggis has to offer. #Cybersystemics #SystemsThinking #ResponsibleAI @Khulood_Almani @Shi4Tech @jblefevre60 @Eli_Krumova @dinisguarda @HaroldSinnott @Timothy_Hughes @Nicochan33 @Mack1510019 @drsharwood @ipfconline1 @EvanKirstel @ThEiLe0 @margaretsiegien @ahier @RLDI_Lamy @Ym78200 @mvollmer1 @jeancayeux @rvp @SusanFourtane @amalmerzouk @bamitav @Fabriziobustama @FrRonconii @c4trends @domingonarvaez1 @TerenceLeungSF @aure79lien @EstelaMandela @NevilleGaunt @stanleywaite1 @pchamard @corixpartners