Anthropic's J-Space Sounds Like Sci-Fi — A Solo Builder Just Made It Practical
🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced it found a hidden space inside Claude where “words” like “panic” and “cheat” appear during reasoning but never show up in the output. The headlines were wild — “Claude’s secret thoughts,” “a window into AI consciousness.” MIT Technology Review sent a senior editor with a PhD in computer science to investigate. His verdict was more measured: LLMs are not brains, and calling their internal states “thoughts” is misleading. But the research itself? Legitimate. ...