Anouar Seghir
Learning how minds represent the world in neurons and in code. I write to slow the thinking down.
The travel writing is from the intervals between.
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Can AI Discover, or Does It Only Continue?
I recently came across an interesting position paper titled “LLMs Can’t Jump,” by Google DeepMind researcher Tom Zahavy. It asks a difficult question: can today’s AI systems genuinely…
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Learning Through My First Neuroscience Project
I had an intuition about this, a question I kept turning over: that there’s a shared geometry to how brains represent things, and that it probably differs a…
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I Knew It Was Engineered. I Scrolled Anyway.
I joined Instagram three years ago. I’ve had a Facebook account since 2008, but I’ve rarely been active on it. Facebook was slowly disappearing from my circle of…
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The Bias Problem Hiding Inside AI Agents
I came across a paper with a pretty unsettling title: Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians. The word “sycophantic” means the chatbot tends to agree…
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The Electricity Beneath Neural Computation
I realized that I had never developed an intuitive understanding of what electricity actually is. The first variable that really bothered me in computational neuroscience was V, the…
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Voyage dans un Atlas qui disparaît
Après les pluies exceptionnelles qu’a connues une grande partie du Maroc en janvier, j’avais envie de retourner dans le Haut Atlas, à Tachedirt. Ce village perché à 2400…