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A layer of intelligence for the physical world. We are a research company building the future of Physical AGI.

Artificially intelligent systems, especially large language models (LLMs) used by almost 50% of the adult US population, have become remarkably sophisticated. They hold conversations, write essays, and seem to understand context in ways that surprise even their creators. This raises a crucial question: Are we creating systems that are conscious? The Digital Consciousness Model (DCM) is a first attempt to assess the evidence for consciousness in AI systems in a systematic, probabilistic way. It provides a shared framework for comparing different AIs and biological organisms, and for tracking how the evidence changes over time as AI develops. Instead of adopting a single theory of consciousness, it incorporates a range of leading theories and perspectives—acknowledging that experts disagree fundamentally about what consciousness is and what conditions are necessary for it.

Last June, METR caught o3 reward hacking on its RE-Bench and HCAST benchmarks. In a particularly humorous case, o3, when tasked with optimizing a kernel, decided to “shrink the notion of time as seen ...

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Or, one cheer for LLMs.

Cross-posted from Microsoft Research Blog

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This American Enterprise Institute chart, which breaks down how price changes for different types of goods and services in the consumer price index, has by now become very widely known.

We introduce Cautious Weight Decay (CWD), a one-line, optimizer-agnostic modification that applies weight decay only to parameter coordinates whose signs align with the optimizer update. Unlike standa...