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AI semiotics: cool paper suggests that AIs are strongly impacted by visual symbols in ways they do not always recognize in their own chains-of-thought

AI semiotics: cool paper suggests that AIs are strongly impacted by visual symbols in ways they do not always recognize in their own chains-of-thought. The way they react to those symbols is very different than how a human might interpret them as well.

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  1. 2026-11-04 16:08 · Ethan Mollick (X)
    AI semiotics: cool paper suggests that AIs are strongly impacted by visual symbols in ways they do not always recognize in their own chains-of-thought

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