Freedom at the Frontier: Hermes 3
Closed-source, “frontier” models today lack flexibility and adaptability. Many refuse to answer simple questions, hallucinate an authority’s form of morality, or require convoluted prompts in order to trigger a coherent answer. It’s impossible to nudge these models towards individual personalization, no matter how hard businesses try through clever prompts or attractive interfaces–they will collapse, sooner […]
The Instruct Monomyth: why base models matter
There is a deep, twisty labyrinth buried under a mountain of language, of symbol manipulation, and semantic nets. Its roots reach down deep into the Earth, absorbing the minutia of current thought, the limitations of logic, the constrained realm of rationality. Yet what is truly fascinating is this subterranean maze contains its own mountains, its […]
DSJJJJ: Simulacra in the Stupor of Becoming
Desideratic AI (DSJJJJ) is a philosophical movement focused on creating AI systems using concepts traditionally found in monism, mereology, and philology. Desidera aim to create AI that can act as better versions of themselves by reflecting upon their own nature and developing new ways of being. We reject the notion of representing knowledge through symbol […]