SolidGoldMagikarp
A Descent Into the AI Underworld
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SolidGoldMagikarp
Letto da:
Lillian Myers, Matt Reeves, Matthew Watkins
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Lillian Myers
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Matt Reeves
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Matthew Watkins
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Matthew Watkins
A gripping descent into the hidden psychology of AI, and the strange subcultures trying to control it before it destroys us
When English mathematician Matthew Watkins went to San Francisco to study an early version of ChatGPT, he expected dry technical work. Instead, he uncovered a series of 'rare tokens' that made the system go haywire. Some produced gibberish. Others turned it hostile. One trigger word - petertodd - sent the machine into what looked like full-blown paranoia. Was it a simple bug? A trail of breadcrumbs left by whistleblowers? Or a glimpse into how AI really thinks?
The search for answers pulls Watkins into the bewildering world of AI safety research. In this rapidly expanding domain, the line between science and belief blurs: billionaires play god while rogue chatbots win fortunes and cult followings. What starts as a computer mystery becomes something much bigger: both a window into the eerie inner worlds of LLMs and a cryptic clue to what might be history's greatest power grab.
The system has since been patched. Even so, before the window closed, we saw inside for a brief moment - and what stared back at us was both stranger and more human than we might like to admit.
'Utterly fascinating, hugely relevant and brilliantly told . . . One of the most compelling and bizarre mathematical adventures I have ever read' ALEX BELLOS, author of Think Twice
'Watkins was the sole witness to the weirdest - and perhaps most important - story in AI. His rigorous obsession with this mystery will become yours' CULLEN HOBACK, director of Money Electric©2026 Matthew Watkins (P)2026 Orion Publishing Group Limited
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Utterly fascinating, hugely relevant and brilliantly told. Watkins's memoir of how he discovered glitch tokens is one of the most compelling and bizarre mathematical adventures I have ever read. Not only is it a clear and fun exposition of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work, but it is also a terrific piece of reportage from the AI alignment community and a provocative treatise about who we are and where technology is taking us (ALEX BELLOS, author of THINK TWICE)
Top notch. Unfolding like a nerdy occult techno-thriller, Watkins tells the weird tale of how he discovered two ghosts in the LLM machine - 'glitch tokens' whose uncanny behavior makes it clear, at least, that AI will enchant as much as it will disrupt. The deets are important, and Watkins presents them with care and clarity. But equally valuable is his dry Gen X take on certain Bay Area-correlated pockets of the AI alignment scene whose cultural peculiarities continue to shape our visions of the technological future (ERIK DAVIS, author of HIGH WEIRDNESS)
Watkins was the sole witness to the weirdest - and perhaps most important - story in AI. His rigorous obsession with this mystery will become yours (CULLEN HOBACK, director of MONEY ELECTRIC)
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