Cal Newport takes a closer look at recent AI news.
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TOPICS:
(0:00) Anthropic’s new research report
(2:05) Digging into the paper
(3:32) High level tutorial on LLMs
(6:18) Detail on annotations
(13:50) What the Anthropic paper found
(20:39) Why this is interesting research
(26:28) Conclusion on consciousness
YOUTUBE TITLE
– Anthropic’s New “Research” Report is Dumb.
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https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
https://x.com/RileyRalmuto/status/2074195587616964757
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-claude-ai-conscious
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