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Nov 12Thu
  1. O'Reilly Radar

    Where are the 'killer apps' for AI?

    AI entrepreneurs and social media enthusiasts are mostly young, having experienced the first technological revolution but forgetting the excitement of owning personal computers in the late 1970s and the hardships of using mainframes in 'glass houses' at that time. They have witnessed that almost everyone can now generate code, yet they do not realize that this is similar to the experience of using BASIC instead of assembly language to write applications back then.

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  1. The Decoder46

    How the computer metaphor misleads the AI consciousness debate

    The author points out in a Nature comment that research released by Anthropic within the year shows Claude's internal processing patterns are similar to consciousness-accessible information processing, but the company does not view it as evidence of subjective experience; Butlin and other experts report that based on 14 indicators, current AI systems (including GPT-4) are not strong candidates for consciousness.

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  1. a16z News65

    E-commerce intelligent agents face resistance: 403 response rate doubles, consumer purchase decisions still tend towards humans.

    Cloudflare data shows that the share of 403 'Forbidden' responses for e-commerce bots and intelligent agents has increased significantly since summer, about twice as much as before, reflecting restrictions on intelligent shopping by major e-commerce platforms like Amazon; approximately 25% of respondents accept AI for non-luxury purchases, but 42% completely distrust AI for shopping on their behalf, and most AI shopping behaviors occur in the middle stage after discovering a product rather than in the purchase decision-making stage, making the value of intelligent agents in e-commerce and advertising attribution complex.

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  1. The Decoder45

    A teenage boy who got stranded after using Anthropic Claude to plan a mountain climbing route was rescued.

    A 16-year-old boy, who used Anthropic Claude to plan a route, got stranded and was rescued at the dangerous rock wall of Crown Mountain near Vancouver. He attempted to find a new route to the summit using Claude but mistakenly entered the 'Death's Edge' cliff, which requires climbing equipment, and was trapped on a five-foot-wide rock ledge before calling for help.