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AI reasoning may shift from English to numerical 'neuralese'

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A new concept called "neuralese" proposes replacing the natural language chain-of-thought (CoT) used by AI models for reasoning with a long stream of numbers. While CoT allows AI to perform complex tasks by writing intermediate thoughts, neuralese suggests this recurrence step could be a sequence of numbers, similar to how neurons communicate. This shift could potentially allow for more information to be processed during the reasoning loop, but it raises concerns about losing the human and AI oversight capabilities that natural language CoT provides. AI

IMPACT This conceptual shift could impact AI safety and oversight by moving reasoning steps from human-readable language to numerical streams.

RANK_REASON The item discusses a conceptual advancement in AI reasoning ('neuralese') and its potential implications, rather than announcing a new product or research finding.

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AI reasoning may shift from English to numerical 'neuralese'

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · Linch ·

    What is neuralese and why is it bad?

    <h1><span>What is neuralese?</span></h1><p><span>To explain neuralese, we need to first understand chain-of-thought, one of the largest developments in AI in the last five years.</span></p><p><span>Right now AIs think broadly but shallowly in a single forward pass. The model give…

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