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Jacqline Geng

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  • They ask whether Claude will replace a paralegal, or whether an LLM can outperform a junior accountant. These are pretty interesting questions, but they’re the wrong questions. They assume the institutional form of the firm (a hierarchical entity that pays salaries to coordinated workers) is the constant, and that AI is the variable acting on it. It is, (un)fortunately, the other way round.
    The Future of Work — Result
  • The divergence in preferred axis over time for familiar versus unfamiliar faces suggests that the brain would need to use a different decoder for familiar versus unfamiliar faces at long latencies
    Temporal multiplexing of perception and memory codes in IT cortex | Nature
  • For each cell, the preferred axis is given by the coefficients c in the equation r = c·f + c0, where r is the response of the cell, f is a vector of shape and appearance features and c0 is a constant offset (Supplementary Methods)
    Temporal multiplexing of perception and memory codes in IT cortex | Nature