I recently came across a video of the author discussing this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375
replyI’ve been mulling it over the past couple of weeks. I’m not sure what to make of it.
Here's a Lex Fridman interview discussing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr1sNYY2t9A
replyI'm a fan of Michael Levin's work, a biologist and philosopher riding that edge between genius and mad science. In the interview he mentions how behavioral psychology may be a useful tool in studying the behavior of algorithms and other phenomena typically not associated with having a mind of its own.