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Artificial Ignorance
How Shopify is making AI Magic A case study on turning competitive advantages into useful AI.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 033: DALL·E 3 September 22, 2023.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Data science intro for math/phys background Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
over a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
LLMs remain confidently unreliable and is the intelligence explosion near? Notes From the Desk: No. 34 - 2024.06.08
10 months ago
Daniel Miessler
UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
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SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
Society's Backend
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
5 months ago
Society's Backend
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
a month ago
Society's Backend
One Year of Society's Backend The lessons I've learned along the way
8 months ago
Society's Backend
The Problem with American Emergency Alerts In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be...
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In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be used for life-saving applications?
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Unitree Talent Awakening Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
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...
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
2 months ago
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o... Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 109: Manus Manus Late last week, a new Chinese AI debuted to massive buzz: Manus, a general-purpose AI agent.
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 066: AlphaFold 3 May 10, 2024.
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Hot Take Elon Musk promised that Grok 3 would be the smartest AI ever.
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
2 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Frontview Mirror: 2023 Edition This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 079: Don't call it an acquisition August 9, 2024.
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 028: Sunak's Safety Summit August 18, 2023
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
This Inventor Is Molding Tomorrow’s Inventors This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing Invention: Stories from Innovation’s...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing Invention: Stories from Innovation’s Edge.” Marina Umaschi Bers has long been at the forefront of technological innovation for kids. In the 2010s, while teaching at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, she codeveloped the...
Don't Worry About...
Going Nova There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI...
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There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI looking to preserve its own existence, frequently called ‘Nova.’
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dreams, Drugs & ConvNets It seems that some artifacts of artificial neural networks are eerily similar to our altered states...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It seems that some artifacts of artificial neural networks are eerily similar to our altered states of mind, be it dreams or psychedelics.
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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,...
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
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over a year ago
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 077: A good week for open-source July 26, 2024.
9 months ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
The Voice Agents Toolkit for Builders Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries to launch reliable and efficient voice agents
4 months ago
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s o3 and Tyler Cowen’s Misguided AGI Fantasy AI can only improve if its limits as well as its strengths are faced honestly
a week 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
Society's Backend
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24 Everything I've been reading
9 months ago
Society's Backend
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
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4 months ago
“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Artificial Ignorance
Saving the world with AI and government grants Listen now | A conversation with Helena Merk, founder and CEO of Streamline Climate.
10 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
8 months ago
One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
a year 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....
a year ago
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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...
Win Vector LLC
The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts:...
5 months ago
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I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm Photo by Judgefloro – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43063034 Toying with the idea of...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
6 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias Benchmarks allow us to dig deeper into what causes biases and what can be done about it
a year ago
Society's Backend
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss....
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10 months ago
Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss. If you want all the ML updates from X, follow me there. Mamba + Sliding Window Attention = SAMBA with Efficient Unlimited... China runs to be one of top global players in AI model...
Xena
Beyond the Liquid Tensor Experiment The liquid tensor experiment is now fully completed. Continue reading →
over a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
When you should lie to the language model Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was...
3 days ago
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Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else. The problem is that…
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #4: 62 Total Resources Apple’s LLM OpenELM, GPT-4-Turbo, Phi-3, Grok-1.5 Vision, and more
12 months ago
The Berkeley...
Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for...
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To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for constraining the agent to regions of high data density throughout its trajectory (left). Here, we present an approach which achieves this goal by combining features of density...
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 114: One of those weeks April 18, 2024.
6 days ago
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
The Berkeley...
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark! Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer...
Sam Altman
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
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over a year ago
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
Solving the decision...
The problem with iff's design How node's shared memory model ruins a perfectly good api design
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The hidden side of Apple Intelligence More than just another keynote recap.
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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...
Matt Mazur
Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few...
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over a year ago
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
One Useful Thing
Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play And then there were three...
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
More Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation Greetings from Costa Rica!
3 weeks ago
fast.ai
AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale Moving AI ethics beyond explainability and fairness to empowerment and justice
a year 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...
2 months ago
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
11 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020 Reflecting on the Past Year
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
5 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #29: April 2025 In Monthly Roundup #28 I made clear I intend to leave the Trump administration out of my monthly...
a week ago
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a week ago
In Monthly Roundup #28 I made clear I intend to leave the Trump administration out of my monthly roundups, for both better and worse, outside of my focus areas.
One Useful Thing
I, Cyborg: Using Co-Intelligence How I used AI in my book about AI
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Everyone is above average Is AI a Leveler, King Maker, or Escalator?
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why. Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...
3 months ago
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Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.
Matt Mazur
Screw it, I’m Keeping Emergent Mind A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I could focus on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker. I wound up having a lot of discussions with potential buyers, but in the end the offers I received were either too low to be worth...
Marcus on AI
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan. Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
4 months ago
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Shipping AI Suggestions in Preceden, EmergentMind Growth and Brainstorming Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I...
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Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
Marcus on AI
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
One Useful Thing
What just happened A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
Shame on Google, twice A very, very brief Super Bowl special
2 months ago
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
Society's Backend
Updates to Society's Backend New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and more
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
6 days 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
Piotr Migdał's Blog
After PyData Warsaw 2017 Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw Conference 2017 (19-20 Oct 2017).
seangoedecke.com RSS...
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...
2 months ago
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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…
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 365 | China’s Decline, MicrosoftAI, Creativity Ratio… 🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🎙️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 NYC Surveillance Amnesty International has revealed new research showing that the NYPD has over 15,000 cameras that can do...
fast.ai
Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment...
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon Onwards
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class Also prompts! And things to watch out for!
a year ago
Society's Backend
Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
a year ago
Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs breach a threshold Open Source models get more powerful, and an AI system scores silver in Maths Olympiad
8 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Is The Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part II: Evidence from News Media Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down....
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Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down. I have shown before some preliminary evidence from Twitter content about how Great Awokening terminology with negative connotations are indeed down but those with positive...
Marcus on AI
𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁... Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAI’s rollout that he joked “of course...
4 months 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
Don't Worry About...
On (Not) Feeling the AGI Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the...
a month ago
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Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the history of OpenAI.
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
What OpenAI did A new model opens up new possibilities
11 months ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI's Strawberry May Enhance AI Reasoning, Optimization of Vision Language Models, Info on... Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
9 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Cloak & dagger creativity camp “You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
over a year ago
Jascha’s blog
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } Many machine learning researchers worry about risks from building artificial intelligence...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue September 1, 2023
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Engineers should state the obvious One surprising thing I’ve learned from writing this blog is that I should worry a lot less about...
a month ago
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a month ago
One surprising thing I’ve learned from writing this blog is that I should worry a lot less about saying things that seem obvious. A lot of…
Daniel Miessler
Companies as Alaskan Fishing Boats What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest Catch. So you have this tiny crew of total badasses. Everyone is a superhero at their particular role because the crew needs to stay extremely small to protect profits. The...
Artificial Ignorance
The Chatbot Trap Why AI products really need some better UX.
5 months ago
Stories by Andrej...
Software 2.0
over a year ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries every developer needs to build functional and efficient AI...
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny This post isn’t about AI; it’s about our future
2 months ago
Solving the decision...
smol party: Hello Wololo! Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
a year ago
Marcus on AI
“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones” also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
3 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
The Berkeley...
Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data...
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over a year ago
In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probably 30 books and spent thousands of hours thinking about it. I am not talking...
Mind Prison: Notes...
2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
2 months ago
Society's Backend
How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at Google in 6 years without a master's degree or PhD
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind in The Atlantic One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The Atlantic who asked Caroline Mimbs Nyce, one of their reporters, to look into it. Caroline interviewed me for the article they just published which focused on the challenges Google is...
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
8 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Humiliation is Deadly
over a year ago
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
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man Guess who won?
a month ago
One Useful Thing
Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
The Machines of Mastery "Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025 Some points of order before we begin the monthly:
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
6 months ago
Marcus on AI
Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024 In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Superposition
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying...
a month ago
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Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying microbots—weighed down by batteries and electronics—have struggled to get very far. But a new combination of circuits and lightweight solid-state batteries called a “flying batteries”...
Weighty Thoughts
Apple Wins Apple Intelligence and aggregation puts Apple in a dominant AI position
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 055: Race conditions February 23, 2023.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Two heads are better than one. How about more?
over a year 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 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On OpenAI's Safety and Alignment Philosophy OpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and...
a month 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 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
AI Snake Oil
Can AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI July 12, 2024.
9 months ago
Daniel Miessler
GPT and Search There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down Google. I get the excitement there, but there are some pretty serious barriers to having this happen immediately. First, GPT is non-deterministic, meaning you can ask it the same...
The Berkeley...
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From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
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On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks, add multi-modal capabilities, and are a real competitor to GPT-4.
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A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this on o3 as well.
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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...
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Salmon in the Loop On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
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On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
One Useful Thing
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
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Marcus on AI
”Those claiming we’re mere months away from AI agents replacing most programmers” should think again AI agents will change the world. But not this year.
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Andrej Karpathy blog
(started posting on Medium instead) The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared....
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The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared. I’ve certainly become less active on blogs since I’ve joined Tesla, but whenever I do get a chance to post something I have recently been defaulting to doing it on Medium because...
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Why LLMs Don't Ask For Calculators? Notes From the Desk: No. 37 - 2025.02.15
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Weighty Thoughts
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
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AI Snake Oil
Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 047: NYT v. OpenAI Friday, December 29.
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AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
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A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often...
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Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…
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R1 is reasoning for the masses Why everyone's focused on DeepSeek's new R1 model - and what it means for AI geopolitics.
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One Useful Thing
Confronting Impossible Futures We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
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Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
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Using LLMs effectively isn't about prompting When people talk about using language models effectively they mainly talk about prompting: sharing...
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When people talk about using language models effectively they mainly talk about prompting: sharing great prompts, or lists of tips for…
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New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,... Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
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IEEE Spectrum
Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some...
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When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we do—that’s how (most of us) are built, and that’s the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things...
IEEE Spectrum
Ensuring the Security and Resilience of Autonomous Fleets with Advanced Testing Frameworks Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks...
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Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks as their complexity grows. Despite advancements, existing testing frameworks fall short in addressing end-to-end security, resilience, and safety in zero-trust environments. The...
Daniel Miessler
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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...
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Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
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I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
Daniel Miessler
Podcast Audio Quality: AI-based Post-processing vs. Hardware I’ve been podcasting since 2015 and got really into audio when the plague started. Like…too much....
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I’ve been podcasting since 2015 and got really into audio when the plague started. Like…too much. Anyway. I’ve been obsessed with podcast audio quality for years, and have been through so…many…iterations of my setup. I started with a Yeti (still a great mic). Did the...
Strange Loop Canon
No, LLMs are not "scheming"
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Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
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Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
Society's Backend
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
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AI Tidbits: AI...
Agent-Responsive Design: Rethinking the web for an agentic future How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
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Solving the decision...
call me maybe AI agents should be addressable
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters...
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Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.
One Useful Thing
Automating creativity There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative.
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exist
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
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There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of people using tools like ChatGPT to draft Python scripts, Go code, and all sorts of other useful things. Okay, so how do I use ChatGPT effectively? How do I Use ChatGPT...
Sam Altman
A Clarification I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to...
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I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it. I didn’t mean that we need to tolerate brilliant homophobic jerks in the lab so that we can have scientific progress.  Although there are famous...
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...
One Useful Thing
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
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Rozado’s Visual...
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
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Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Sam Altman
The Strength of Being Misunderstood A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
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A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
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.
Marcus on AI
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him
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Don't Worry About...
On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
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Weighty Thoughts
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
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exist
Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99% Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a...
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Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by...
One Useful Thing
Change blindness 21 months later
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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...
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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...
Artificial Ignorance
The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
a year ago
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Porting and hacking Llama2.c for fun and profit Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
Artificial Ignorance
DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions Share this with your friends and family.
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Society's Backend
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases...
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The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases open models, Google generates audio for video, and more
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
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Cobot Proxie 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. Humanoids Summit: 11–12 December...
Weighty Thoughts
Scaling is a Choice Progress in tech is rarely “inevitable.” Looking at semiconductors and AI.
4 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
When the AI Bubble Bursts It’s when, not if, for these kinds of new technologies
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Human log loss for image classification
over a year ago