#philosophy
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· The Platonic Representation Hypothesis: Are AI Models Converging on Universal Representations?
This blog post is based on The Platonic Representation Hypothesis by Huh et al. (2024), MIT. AI models are becoming increasingly similar in how they represent the world, regardless of how they're trained or what kind of data they process. This fascinating trend suggests we may be approaching a universal way of representing reality.
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· Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
One of the most interesting question to be made is about the nature of consciousness. During a long time the question of consciousness was considered as a philosophical question but during the last decades this question has been approached by the science with the emergence of the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) by Giulio Tononi. This paradigm, proposes a radical reconceptualization of consciousness, framing it as an intrinsic property of physical systems, quantifiable through information integration.