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Marcus on AI
“Nvidia could soon take a serious hit, too” The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, but today might be the day.
3 weeks ago
Strange Loop Canon
What would a world with AGI look like?
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
R1 is reasoning for the masses Why everyone's focused on DeepSeek's new R1 model - and what it means for AI geopolitics.
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent! Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
4 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species...
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Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality data that can be fed into...
Marcus on AI
Hot take on an AI catfight Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
3 weeks ago
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Why are big tech companies so slow? Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer...
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Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. This fact…
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What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1? The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released their new reasoning model R1, which is supposedly (a)...
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The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released their new reasoning model R1, which is supposedly (a) better than the current best reasoning…
Society's Backend
Open AI beats OpenAI, Understand Scaling Laws, Commerce in the Age of AI Agents, and More Society's Backend Reading List 01-24-2025
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
4 weeks ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
3 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here
2 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Just How Many Robots Can One Person Control at Once? This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE...
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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these missions is still required. Which means...
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Working fast and slow Some engineers work very consistently, putting in the same hours every day and getting out the same...
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Some engineers work very consistently, putting in the same hours every day and getting out the same amount of work. I don’t. Some days I…
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Why AI labs offer so many different models Major AI labs these days (i.e. early 2025) offer a wide variety of models. Some are faster and...
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Major AI labs these days (i.e. early 2025) offer a wide variety of models. Some are faster and cheaper, some are smarter, and now some are…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Hottest On The Ice Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 102: The Stargate Project January 24, 2024.
3 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI in Hedge Funds and High Finance Talking about the future of AI in finance with Alex Campbell
3 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
Who’s Winning the AI War: 2025 (DeepSeek?) Edition Same fundamentals, new unhinged vibes
3 weeks ago
Society's Backend
Why Medical AI is Garbage, Realistic Perspectives on DeepSeek Models, Understanding Reasoning... An AI engineer's must-reads for 1/31/25
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
The race for "AI Supremacy" is over — at least for now. Decades of government kowtowing to Big Tech has thus far failed to produce a decisive victory
3 weeks ago
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Are DeepSeek's new models really that fast and cheap? Everyone’s saying that DeepSeek’s latest models represent a significant improvement over the work...
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Everyone’s saying that DeepSeek’s latest models represent a significant improvement over the work from American AI labs. If they’re not…
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Preferences of DeepSeek AI Models Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to...
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Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to their American counterparts.
Artificial Ignorance
DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions Share this with your friends and family.
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific...
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AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific regional accents. And with just a few seconds of audio, AI can now clone someone’s specific voice. AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language....
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
2 weeks ago
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re...
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Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Aibo Foster Parents Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Marcus on AI
OpenAI Cries Foul Irony is for losers
2 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Humanoids Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Marcus on AI
Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
ChatGPT in Shambles After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist
2 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
a week ago
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Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments...
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When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments accusing me of trying to get ahead at the…
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
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I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
Weighty Thoughts
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
2 weeks ago
Solving the decision...
call me maybe AI agents should be addressable
a week ago
Society's Backend
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
a week ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one...
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IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one place since the filming of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” Not a single entrant made it across the finish line. Some didn’t make it out of the parking lot. So it’s all the more...
Xena
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
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Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean, because they have been taught a specific model for quotients in their classes, which is not the model that Lean uses. This post is an attempt to … Continue reading →
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Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team...
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Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven…
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Good engineers are right, a lot Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s...
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Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about…
Marcus on AI
𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on... [Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]
2 weeks ago
Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
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Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
Don't Worry About...
Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
a week ago
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
2 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
How Will AI Impact Law Firms? An interview with Devansh from Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Five ways in which the last 3 months — and especially the DeepSeek era — have vindicated “Deep... A demonized paper from three years ago that has stood the test of time
a week ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI Winters and The Third Wave of Today A sneak preview from my upcoming book "What You Need To Know About AI"
a week ago
Society's Backend
Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
a week ago
IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
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In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Marcus on AI
Google, 2001: Don’t Be Evil Google, 2025: Fuck It
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 104: Deep Research February 7, 2025.
a week ago
Don't Worry About...
On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks This week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s...
a week ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #102: Made in America I remember that week I used r1 a lot, and everyone was obsessed with DeepSeek.
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
a week ago
Don't Worry About...
The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more...
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The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more dramatic goes wrong first and even we successfully ‘solve alignment’ of AI to a given user and developer, is the ‘gradual’ disempowerment of humanity by AIs, as we voluntarily...
Marcus on AI
Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
a week ago
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Did Elon Musk just Mu$k Sam Altman? With some bonus eye candy to lighten the mood
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Irony too funny for words Oops
a week ago
Society's Backend
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
4 days ago
Marcus on AI
WARNING: Elon Musk is crippling the future of the United States And I am not sure he even understands the consequences of his own actions
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Shame on Google, twice A very, very brief Super Bowl special
a week ago
Don't Worry About...
On Deliberative Alignment Not too long ago, OpenAI presented a paper on their new strategy of Deliberative Alignment.
a week ago
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Lessons on thinking from large language models Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars...
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Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars have been spent to study how they think…
Xena
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
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My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
Solving the decision...
Reliable UX for AI chat with Durable Objects What is says on the tin.
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality It brings me no joy to say that
a week ago
Solving the decision...
Durable Objects Callbacks are Weird but it's also convenient to solve human-in-the-loop for ai agents
2 weeks ago
Solving the decision...
let's talk about a task tracking system for ai agents AI agents need tracking software, and we need to build it.
3 weeks ago
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code...
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It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple…
Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: PARTNR Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Don't Worry About...
The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit It doesn’t look good.
6 days ago
Win Vector LLC
Trying to Describe 2024 AI Premises I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025...
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I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025 and DeepSeek is relevant!). The 2024 AI money machine appears to have depended on several premises: The product would be valuable. The product would be very expensive to...
Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
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Don't Worry About...
Operator No one is talking about OpenAI’s Operator.
3 weeks ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
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Don't Worry About...
AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
2 weeks ago
Solving the decision...
The unfortunate truth of software for technologists It's all about the money, baby
4 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Breaking: OpenAI's efforts at pure scaling have hit a wall — There is no wall
5 days ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
4 days ago
Don't Worry About...
We're in Deep Research The latest addition to OpenAI’s Pro offerings is their version of Deep Research.
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Don't Panic As reactions continue, the word in Washington, and out of OpenAI, is distillation.
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025 Some points of order before we begin the monthly:
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Don't Worry About...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek Panic at the App Store DeepSeek released v3.
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #100: Meet the New Boss Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.
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Don't Worry About...
Sleep, Diet, Exercise and GLP-1 Drugs As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are...
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As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are all different and our motivations are different, so figuring out the best things to do is difficult.
Don't Worry About...
AI #103: Show Me the Money The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build...
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The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build upon the promise of the Bletchley and Seoul Summits, the French and Americans did their best to actively destroy what hope remained, transforming the event into a push for a mix of...
Don't Worry About...
Stargate AI-1 There was a comedy routine a few years ago.
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
4 days ago
Marcus on AI
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him
2 days ago
Marcus on AI
AlphaGeometry2: Impressive accomplishment, but still a long path ahead What GoogleDeepMind’s latest does and doesn’t show, and what we like about it
yesterday
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #27: February 2025 I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the...
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I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the various machinations of DOGE.
Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Hot Take Elon Musk promised that Grok 3 would be the smartest AI ever.
17 hours ago
Don't Worry About...
Medical Roundup #4 It seems like as other things drew our attention more, medical news slowed down.
9 hours ago
Society's Backend
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
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Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
What people ask me most. Also, some answers. A FAQ of sorts
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
a year ago
Sam Altman
GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
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There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
One Useful Thing
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Strategies for an Accelerating Future Four questions to ask your organization.
12 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
AI is not good software. It is pretty good people. A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
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Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Matt Mazur
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
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One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 066: AlphaFold 3 May 10, 2024.
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) Five analytical tasks in under a minute
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
Superhuman? What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
a year ago
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #7: 39 Resources and Updates GPT-4o, Google I/O, Fugaku LLM, Prep for Machine Learning Interviews, and more
9 months ago
Society's Backend
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
a year ago
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #6: 59 Resources and Updates, AI is Taking Off in Medicine Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically,...
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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically, Apple is bringing their AI chips to data centers, StackOverflow partners with OpenAI, and more
Society's Backend
If You Understand Bananas, You Can Understand Machine Learning A simplified high-level overview of primary machine learning algorithms for anyone to understand
a year ago
One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs They're not going to disrupt everything (yet), but they're a ton of fun.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 064: Big Tech's small models April 26, 2024.
9 months ago
The Berkeley...
Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
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As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
Weighty Thoughts
Why we need AI as a society We’re aging too fast (AKA my entire AI/robotics investment thesis)
9 months ago
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
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Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
One Useful Thing
Everyone is above average Is AI a Leveler, King Maker, or Escalator?
a year ago
Matt Mazur
It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
10 months ago
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It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 065: The gpt2-chatbot mystery May 3, 2024.
9 months ago
Society's Backend
Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Groq, Gemini, and 10x improvements As a programmer and CTO, I've developed a rough rule of thumb when it comes to scaling systems. When...
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As a programmer and CTO, I've developed a rough rule of thumb when it comes to scaling systems. When you scale your inputs (users, page views, messages, etc) by 10x, something breaks. Usually, it's something pretty fundamental. And the end result is that you need to replace a...
Matt Mazur
Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
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Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 063: Llama 3 April 19, 2024.
10 months ago
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
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At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
Society's Backend
Know Your Benchmarks How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
10 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
AI embraces its product arc fuzzy processors are entering mass production
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
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✅ Please subscribe to and give a 17-star review to this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank you! SECURITY Reddit has confirmed it was hacked, and it’s recommending users add 2FA. The attack started by phishing Reddit employees and stealing credentials and 2FA codes. After...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 070: AI whistleblowers June 7, 2024.
8 months ago
The Berkeley...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
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When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control June 28, 2024.
7 months ago
Society's Backend
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
6 months ago
One Useful Thing
Post-apocalyptic education What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
5 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 367 | Hive Ransom, Anti-Google, Software 2.0… 🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
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🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI infiltrated the HIVE ransomware group, stopping over $130 million in ransomware attacks. HIVE is known for going...
Weighty Thoughts
Why ChatGPT Strawberry o1 (and other LLMs) will Never be Good at Diagnosis “Connectionist” vs. Knowledge-Based AI
4 months ago
The Gradient
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
10 months ago
Society's Backend
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
What are logprobs? Something to do with logs and probabilities.
a year ago
Society's Backend
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24 Everything I've been reading
7 months ago
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind finally went viral Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
a year ago
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Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
The Gradient
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
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LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
Society's Backend
One Year of Society's Backend The lessons I've learned along the way
6 months ago
Matt Mazur
Don’t Self Host Unlicensed Proxima Nova Fonts I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time...
a year ago
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I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time I was loading Proxima Nova on Preceden via Typekit (a hosted web font service) for $49.99/year, but at some point I decided to self-host it to avoid the third party request which...
Society's Backend
Meta's New Segmentation Model, A New Open-Source Image Generation Model, Apple Intelligence Model... Machine learning resources and updates 8/5/2024
6 months ago
One Useful Thing
Not much is changing, a lot is changing OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
a year ago
One Useful Thing
A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity AI can already beat humans in many measures of creativity. Let's use that to our advantage.
over a year ago
Society's Backend
Google AI Essentials, A New LLM Benchmark, Washington's AI Task Force, and More [Top 10 ML Resource... Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and...
7 months ago
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I share more frequent ML updates on X so don’t forget to follow me there. Support Society's Backend for just $1/mo
Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 7B Instruct on a Macbook Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to...
a year ago
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Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to document the steps I took to run Mistral’s 7B-Instruct-v0.2 model on a Mac for anyone else interested in playing around with it. Unlike yesterday’s post though, this 7B Instruct...
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
a year ago
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a year ago
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
One Useful Thing
Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier I think we have an answer on whether AIs will reshape work....
a year ago
Society's Backend
Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Progress on TimelineGPT, Emergent Mind missteps, finding balance Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s...
a year ago
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Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s periodic update on what I’ve been up to: TimelineGPT About two months ago I launched an in-app tool for Preceden that provides GPT-powered event suggestions to users to help them build...
Rozado’s Visual...
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
GPTs won't make you rich But they'll make you more productive.
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI a Winner-Take-All Market? A critical question for investors in AI
5 months ago
Daniel Miessler
How to Survive and Thrive in a World Where AI Can Do Almost Everything Click for printable size. Here’s a quick list of things we can do to get ready for AI’s ascendance....
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Click for printable size. Here’s a quick list of things we can do to get ready for AI’s ascendance. You can click it to get the full size to print out. This is UL Member Content Subscribe Already a member? Login
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon Onwards
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
YCombinator's AI boom is still going strong (W24) Combing through all 158 YC AI startups (65% of the batch).
10 months ago
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Smart Icons, Automatic Suggestions, Dealing with Spammers, Better Icon Colors Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we...
over a year ago
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Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we rolled out the AI Suggestions feature last week, the typical experience for the user would go something like this: Lots of UX issues there though: To remedy this, I updated Preceden to...
One Useful Thing
Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do Also, my book has a cover (also I have a book coming out)
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked...
over a year ago
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Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
Rozado’s Visual...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
a year ago
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In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2024) Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
7 months ago
Society's Backend
Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
5 months ago
One Useful Thing
Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful Here are five strategies and prompts that work for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
a year ago
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
10 months ago
Matt Mazur
The Security Questionnaire Dilemma About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a...
a year ago
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About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a large organization asking that I fill out a detailed security questionnaire to help them assess the risk of their employees using Preceden. I received one recently from a large,...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Prominence of Prejudice and Social Justice Rhetoric in UK News Media I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice...
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I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice and social justice rhetoric in UK news media. Recent years have seen considerable debate about the rise of political polarization in British society. Specifically, over the last...
Artificial Ignorance
What President Biden's AI executive order actually means I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
New York Times Word Usage Frequency Chart – An Update A timely update of an informative chart
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks TLDR: We propose the asymmetric...
a year ago
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Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks TLDR: We propose the asymmetric certified robustness problem, which requires certified robustness for only one class and reflects real-world adversarial scenarios. This focused setting allows us to introduce...
Strange Loop Canon
Ode to software
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
What Made the 90’s So Awesome? I just read a brilliant essay about the 90’s by Freddie de Boer, and it got me thinking. What made...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just read a brilliant essay about the 90’s by Freddie de Boer, and it got me thinking. What made the 90’s so great? Here’s GPT’s answer: Give a 90’s lover’s view of what made the 90’s awesome. Include everything from parenting, art, entertainment, games, childhood, movies, TV,...
Rozado’s Visual...
Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
a year ago
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There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
Society's Backend
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
5 months ago
One Useful Thing
The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
OpenAI's Strawberry models can reason like an expert When models can think
5 months ago
Daniel Miessler
My Prediction For Twitter I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the...
over a year ago
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I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the shenanigans. As for my take on things, I will just say that Elon miscalculated a number of things in his handling of the transition. I think he thought his actions would be better received....
One Useful Thing
Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Acceleration. 7 days of new AI technologies shows us that everything is happening very fast.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today The book will be published on September 24
5 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Prejudice in Academic Papers: A Declining Trend Amidst Ongoing DEI Growth? Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms...
5 months ago
Matt Mazur
Introducing Preceden’s new AI-Powered Timeline Generator For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for...
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For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
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.wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; overflow-wrap: break-word; /* allow wrapping of very very long strings, like txids */ } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 13px; /*...
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Prepping TimelineGPT for Launch, Viva la EmergentMind Preceden This week consisted of Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I getting TimelineGPT (the AI...
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Preceden This week consisted of Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I getting TimelineGPT (the AI content generator we’re working on) from 80% ready to ship to 98%. Lots of small, boring tasks like: Hopefully can launch the v1 early next week, rolling it out to 25% of users and then...
Society's Backend
JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
8 months ago
One Useful Thing
I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
over a year ago
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I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of Google Bard It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system...
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It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system designed to advance government interests
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is for sale. Contact me if you’re interested. On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business. I didn’t plan to sell LearnGPT because I didn’t think a month-old, pre-revenue project like this would be able to sell for enough to warrant going through a sale. It’s been three...
One Useful Thing
Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play And then there were three...
11 months ago
One Useful Thing
Now is the time for grimoires It isn't data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 360 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY SERIES SECURITY NEWS Security researchers found that Chinese electronics company Eufy (part of Anker) has...
over a year ago
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SECURITY NEWS Security researchers found that Chinese electronics company Eufy (part of Anker) has major vulnerabilities in its security cameras. The issues include uploading data to the cloud when they said they weren't, and the existence of a URL endpoint that allows an...
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 350
over a year ago
Society's Backend
Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
5 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 364 | Reality Headset, BingPT, AI+Cyber If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite...
over a year ago
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If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite client. APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI is warning people to block online ads due to imposters poisoning search results. They advise users to 1) check ad URLs, 2) go...
One Useful Thing
How to Get an AI to Lie to You in Three Simple Steps I keep getting fooled by AI, and it seems like others are, too.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias? A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
News, Analysis, and Discovery | NO. 356 SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read...
over a year ago
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SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read European TikTok data. Pressure is increasing across the US government to outright ban the app, but it's quickly becoming national infrastructure so many young people. MORE |...
Rozado’s Visual...
Out-of-office Donald Trump still more prominent in news media content than the current U.S.... In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump...
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In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump in news media content (see here). I have recently updated that previous analysis. Briefly stated, no U.S. president in recent history has received a similar amount of media...
One Useful Thing
Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of GPT-4 Things are not always what they seem
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
AI bill vetoed; what's next? Make AI regulations evidence based
4 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 349
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest “This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
5 months ago
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“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
The Gradient
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
a year ago
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I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
AI Snake Oil
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
What AI can do with a toolbox... Getting started with Code Interpreter Democratizing data analysis with AI
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Reverse Transcription There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
over a year ago
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There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have AIs producing so much extraordinary art. But I’m excited about something else that we’re naturally evolving GPT into, which I’m calling Reverse Transcription. A bit of background...
One Useful Thing
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
over a year ago