Little Happier: I Can’t Stop Thinking About This Observation About Artificial Intelligence

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A brief discussion about this question posed to the AI assistant Claude—“What’s going on in your head?”—has haunted me ever since I first heard it. Get in touch: [email protected] Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.
0:03.0	In an admittedly extremely rudimentary way, I am very interested in learning about artificial intelligence. On my 24 for 24 list, I included the item, Keep Learning and Experimenting
0:16.4	with AI.
0:18.2	As part of that effort, I listened to the Hard Fork Podcast, a podcast I love, where they often discuss issues related to AI.
0:26.6	On their May 31st, 2024, episode 85, the two hosts discussed recent strides made in understanding how large
0:34.5	language models work. This has been a quite mysterious issue. The hosts were
0:40.3	interviewing guests Josh Batson, a research scientist at Anthropic, an AI company,
0:46.1	and they were talking about Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic, and I often use Claude
0:52.0	myself.
0:53.0	Josh Batson explained a method called dictionary learning,
0:57.0	which means, from what I can tell,
1:00.0	and I may get this totally wrong,
1:02.0	that certain patterns, which they call features, correspond
1:06.6	to certain information or concepts, and that looking at various patterns reveals that AI organizes related concepts together.
1:16.5	It's not trained to do that.
1:18.5	This kind of organization arises without training. For instance, inner conflict, navigating a romantic breakup,
1:26.5	and catch-22 political tensions are grouped together. So in this conversation, host Kevin Roos comments that his favorite feature was one where you
1:37.5	ask Claude, what's going on in your head? In other words, in what context does AI place itself? At this
1:48.8	point I paused the podcast and I asked myself what answer do I think Claude would give and I thought well
1:57.5	maybe Claude would place itself in the context of the Abacus, the Encyclopedia, a hand calculator, or an IBM mainframe. What do you think?
2:10.0	Well, I was wrong.
2:12.0	Claude puts itself in the company of ghosts, angels, souls.
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