Error Signals
Tom PollakA neuropsychiatrist’s field notes on doubt, data, and discovery
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All the demons hiding in your AIs… ranked!
Warning: this post contains some disturbing images and (depending on your constitution) concepts.
This week, OpenAI published a blog post explaining why their models kept talking about goblins. And gremlins.
It’s a fascinating docume...
The vibes cartels
Returning home from the International Association for Ethical and Safe AI Conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, I was struck by a number of observations. First, the amount of time dedicated to discussion of psychological harms seemed...
Line of sight
I was walking the dog when I saw a man firing a gun from close range into a house a few doors away.
It was Friday night, at 11:11. He (I assume it was a he, but I couldn’t see their face) was standing on the pavement, in profile, arm exten...
Everything is significant
In February 1974, Norman Geschwind delivered a lecture at Harvard Medical School describing personality changes in temporal lobe epilepsy. The syndrome that now bears his name describes a fascinating and highly specific constellation of fea...
Gaslighting and coercion by sexualised AI
Content warning: this post addresses abuse, intimate partner violence, suicide and sex.
When I was training in psychiatry, and especially on night shifts in accident and emergency, it wasn’t uncommon to see people who were caught in contro...
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London-based neuropsychiatrist and immunopsychiatry researcher. Interested in those moments when our models no longer fit the data.
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