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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40 Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
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2 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. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
Society's Backend
Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
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over a year ago
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you won’t want to miss Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
a month ago
Matt Mazur
Is the ChatGPT API Refusing to Summarize Academic Papers? Not so fast. Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API indicating that it was refusing to summarize arXiv papers: There has been a lot of discussion recently about the perceived decrease in the quality of ChatGPT’s responses and seeing...
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics’ Latest Vids Show Atlas Going Hands On Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we...
a month ago
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a month ago
Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going “hands on” with a practical factory task. This video is notable because it’s the first real look we’ve had at the new Atlas doing...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 061: The AI innovator's dilemma April 5, 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...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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 026: AudioCraft August 4, 2023
a year ago
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
a year ago
Society's Backend
I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough. Opting out is the latest example of generative AI developers externalizing costs.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
a year ago
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
a year ago
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a year ago
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
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
3 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
Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine Or: How we weaponised serendipity
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Saving the world with AI and government grants Listen now | A conversation with Helena Merk, founder and CEO of Streamline Climate.
5 months ago
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...
Society's Backend
One Year of Society's Backend The lessons I've learned along the way
4 months ago
Daniel Miessler
AI is About to Feel Like AGI, and You Need to Get Ready I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more. Basically, the current trajectory of AI, with all the art generation, the language models, etc., are about to become a whole lot more instruction and response based. What does that mean?...
Weighty Thoughts
Consider the Llama Are closed source AI models doomed?
5 months ago
Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 050: Synthetic Geometry January 19, 2024.
11 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has documented a pronounced increase in the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in American news media content. Some have referred to this shift in journalistic discourse and related...
Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
The Berkeley...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
a month ago
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a month ago
Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 349
over a year ago
Society's Backend
An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
a year ago
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a year ago
We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color scheme and logo! :) - Logan I've been researching text summarization methods for a project I'm working on. Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs have become a go-to...
One Useful Thing
What OpenAI did A new model opens up new possibilities
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
Superhuman? What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
7 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 368 | ChinaBalloons, CustomGPT, 90s++… ✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll...
a year ago
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a year ago
✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll prevent the email from occasionally descending into the void. SECURITY The US shot down a Chinese spy balloon. They gathered the debris from the water it fell into, and it's currently...
Strange Loop Canon
Slouching Towards Utopia by Brad DeLong
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month 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...
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...
One Useful Thing
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 062: Data is the new oil April 12, 2024.
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition July 5, 2024.
5 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020 Reflecting on the Past Year
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 071: How do you like them AIs June 14, 2024.
6 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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Daniel Miessler
Humiliation is Deadly
over a year ago
Society's Backend
Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
a month ago
Society's Backend
Know Your Benchmarks How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
8 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...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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...
Rozado’s Visual...
An Analysis of AI Political Preferences from a European Perspective Introduction
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Swiss-Mile Robot vs. Humans Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month 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...
One Useful Thing
Everyone is above average Is AI a Leveler, King Maker, or Escalator?
a year ago
One Useful Thing
On the necessity of a sin Why treating AI like a person is the future
8 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Soul nullius in verba
10 months 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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Society's Backend
What Apple Intelligence Means for You "We think you're gonna LOVE it"
6 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
One Useful Thing
What just happened A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
3 days ago
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year 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
Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some...
Artificial Ignorance
How to talk to your family about AI this Thanksgiving A handy guide for your uncle's burning questions.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6 months ago
Society's Backend
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
6 months ago
One Useful Thing
On giving AI eyes and ears AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
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2 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. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
One Useful Thing
Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs Also, we have a prompt library!
9 months ago
Society's Backend
Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
11 months ago
Society's Backend
Devin Has Exposed a Major Issue with Software Engineering And isn't that we're all going to lose our jobs
9 months ago
Marcus on AI
ChatGPT, at Age Two The bullshit just keeps on coming.
3 weeks 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.
a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
The Berkeley...
Goal Representations for Instruction Following Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is centered and set to 50% page width. --> A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has...
Sam Altman
E Pur Si Muove Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.  I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home. That...
Artificial Ignorance
How to leverage long form content with AI Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Pitfalls of building with large language models Dealing with more than just hallucinations.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes Several states just banned deepfakes in political ads and porn.
9 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
The AI Executive Order AKA: “We’ll do something about it later”
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
a year ago
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...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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...
Sam Altman
Project Covalence Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.  Science remains the...
Society's Backend
Why everyone loves Spider-Man Lessons anyone can learn from our friendly neighborhood web-crawler
a year ago
The Gradient
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
2 months ago
Society's Backend
Things Everyone Should Understand About the Stanford AI Index Report And my notes on why they’re important
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
12 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today The book will be published on September 24
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3 March 8, 2024.
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
6 months ago
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....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
AI Snake Oil
AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing). A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
a year 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
3 months ago
Frank’s Ramblings
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone. If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 097: Model Mayhem December 13, 2024.
a week ago
Society's Backend
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
12 months ago
PromptArmor Blog
Coming soon This is PromptArmor Blog.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
a week ago
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a week ago
A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
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,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
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
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
fast.ai
GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving...
a year ago
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a year ago
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
a week 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
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a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
Marcus on AI
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
4 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 of the most impactful AI stories of 2023 A quick look back on a very busy year in AI.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI and the workplace How employees and CEOs alike can plan for the future.
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
How to... use AI to unstick yourself We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The intern and the coach A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it found that BCG consultants who used GPT-4 were up to 43% more effective at tasks vs. employees who didn’t.
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...
a year ago
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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,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
What AI models really think about politics Exploring the political biases of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
11 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Apple Wins Apple Intelligence and aggregation puts Apple in a dominant AI position
6 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....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
Strange Loop Canon
The Dream AI Hardware
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 1) Part 1: What is an agent, and how do they work?
a year ago
Made by Ollin
NVIDIA Internship (2017) Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
over a year ago
Sam Altman
2017 YC Annual Letter Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.  We...
One Useful Thing
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 079: Don't call it an acquisition August 9, 2024.
4 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
7 months ago
Society's Backend
Meet Devansh: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of 193,000 Subscribers Content creation and networking lessons from a wildly successful freelance tech writer
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The political preferences of Grok Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Deep Tech Startups Are Not Software Startups Or why AI and “Software/SaaS” are apples and oranges
10 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
The EU is making itself an economic backwater Regulation is not a real export
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
4 months ago
Society's Backend
You Are What You Eat: Digital Edition Why who you follow is more important than who follows you
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
Software 2.0
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address
5 months ago
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Terminology is So Confusing And definitions for the most important terms you should know
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
When you give a Claude a mouse Some quick impressions of an actual agent
2 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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a year ago
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,...
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
Society's Backend
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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...
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Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to...
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While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to evaluating large language models. Often, they're not the best indicators of real-world utility - and I want to dig into why (and what other approaches exist).
Weighty Thoughts
When the AI Bubble Bursts It’s when, not if, for these kinds of new technologies
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Sam Altman
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
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Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros. This is the game that to me feels closest to the real world and complex...
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.
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Why we need AI as a society We’re aging too fast (AKA my entire AI/robotics investment thesis)
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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...
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Artificial Ignorance
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AI Roundup 051: The Taylor Swift thing January 26, 2024.
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Remote Sub Sustains Science Kilometers Underwater The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search...
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The water column is hazy as an unusual remotely operated vehicle glides over the seafloor in search of a delicate tilt meter deployed three years ago off the west side of Vancouver Island. The sensor measures shaking and shifting in continental plates that will eventually unleash...
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
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a year ago
About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
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...
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Reachy 2 IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few...
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2 months ago
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. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024,...
Rozado’s Visual...
What is the IQ of ChatGPT? Making an AI model take an IQ test
over a year ago
Sam Altman
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
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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a year ago
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 […]
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use October 25, 2024.
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The State of AI Engineering (2024) Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Happy Holidays! 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. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
AI Snake Oil
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good. Turning models into products runs into five challenges
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Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025 OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
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OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Artificial Ignorance
Who's winning the AI arms race? It depends whether AI is a "disruptive" or "sustaining" technology.
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AI Snake Oil
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
Society's Backend
Mastering the Art of Documentation Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
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The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
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6 months ago
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
Weighty Thoughts
Let's talk about AI power costs It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
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One Useful Thing
Freeing the chatbot Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
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Artificial Ignorance
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One Useful Thing
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a year ago
One Useful Thing
The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI We had a brief glimpse of two different types of AI. Both are significant
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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,...
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...
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Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
Marcus on AI
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One Useful Thing
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Artificial Ignorance
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AI safety is not a model property Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be...
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Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
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Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
a year ago
Made by Ollin
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AI Roundup 091: Search wars November 1, 2024.
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The subscriptionization of AI Navigating the paid AI landscape.
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Stories by Andrej...
ICLR 2017 vs arxiv-sanity
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Looking a gift llama in the mouth How Llama 3.1 uniquely leverages Meta's business model (and why we should be a little bit cynical...
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How Llama 3.1 uniquely leverages Meta's business model (and why we should be a little bit cynical about it)
Strange Loop Canon
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8 months 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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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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 068: The ScarJo thing May 24, 2024.
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The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation And the impact it'll have for decades to come
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AI Roundup 094: Pixtral et Le Chat November 22, 2024.
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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.
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One Useful Thing
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold Small improvements can lead to big changes
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Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
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Daniel Miessler
NO. 358 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY 🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But...
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over a year ago
🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But that's a Friday, so I'm going to enable the discount link earlier. How early, and how much of a discount? You'll have to find out. If the link works before the date, then it's...
Sam Altman
Idea Generation The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
The Gradient
Mamba Explained Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a...
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8 months ago
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
Society's Backend
Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 028: Sunak's Safety Summit August 18, 2023
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
a year ago
Society's Backend
Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
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Matt Mazur
The Kenya Quick Answer Goes Viral, Again On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot of the now-famous “african country that starts with k” Google Quick Answer, which quickly went viral, garnering over 82k likes and 3 million views as of the time of this writing...
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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
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Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and... Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
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Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
a year ago
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I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Case Study: Scaling customer intelligence Analyzing 10,000 sales calls with Claude
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Which is the Wokest AI? A Wokeness Ranking of LLMs
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El desproporcionado número de referencias al machismo en los medios de comunicación españoles Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos...
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a year ago
Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos internacionales por su alto número de referencias al machismo que triplican a las de cualquier otro país
Society's Backend
MASSIVE New Model Releases from Google, OpenAI, and Meta Change the AI Landscape Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
6 days ago
Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
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Daniel Miessler
Custom Models Are AI’s Killer App The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or...
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a year ago
The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or your whole life experience. Every text. Every Slack. Every journal entry. Every blog post. Everything you’ve said or written publicly. All your logs. All your documentation. Turn...
AI Snake Oil
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
2 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 27, 2014 🧴 Why does Google suck so much, Microsoft Co-Pilot Everywhere, and Sam Altman
6 months ago
The Berkeley...
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
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TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
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
3 months ago
One Useful Thing
One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard
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Weighty Thoughts
What’s coming next for AI in 2024 A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
11 months ago
Marcus on AI
Update re: Microsoft and training data Relevant to the post I sent earlier today,...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Relevant to the post I sent earlier today, https://www.howtogeek.com/is-microsoft-using-your-word-documents-to-train-ai/says that an unnamed spokesperson at Microsoft claims that “Microsoft does not use customer data from Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 069: Project Greymatter May 31, 2024.
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What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 065: The gpt2-chatbot mystery May 3, 2024.
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The State of AI in China Is China winning the race to AGI?
5 months 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.
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
a year ago
Sam Altman
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get...
a year ago
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Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry...
Marcus on AI
An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts The parade of made-up numbers never stops
a month ago
Rozado’s Visual...
New York Times Word Usage Frequency Chart – An Update A timely update of an informative chart
a year ago
One Useful Thing
On holding back the strange AI tide There is no way to stop the disruption. We need to channel it instead
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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 088: Movie magic October 11, 2024.
2 months ago
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The AI email startup that's taking on Gmail A conversation with Andrew Lee, CEO of Shortwave and cofounder of Firebase.
a year ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI's o1, Model Merging, California Approves AI Regulation, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-17
3 months ago
Marcus on AI
AI influencer hype gone wild Reality is quite the opposite
a month ago
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
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over a year ago
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
a year ago
Sam Altman
The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...
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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a year ago
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
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
A stroll through Google's Model Garden What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 084: Strawberry / o1 September 13, 2024.
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Daniel Miessler
Generate AI Art Using Your Own Writing One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are cool, but a lot of the magic comes down to prompt engineering, which is non-trivial. Prompt Engineering is almost equal parts...
Weighty Thoughts
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 077: A good week for open-source July 26, 2024.
4 months ago
Sam Altman
Keep the Internet Open The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated he has no plan to stop soon. The internet is a public good, and I believe access should be a basic right.  We've seen such great innovation in software because the internet has...
Sam Altman
Hard Startups The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be...
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...
fast.ai
I was an AI researcher. Now, I am an immunology student. Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered machine learning
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 082: System prompts August 30, 2024.
3 months ago
The Berkeley...
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks TLDR: We propose the asymmetric...
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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...
Society's Backend
A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
2 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Scott Kuffer of Nucleus Security | SPONSORED INTERVIEW SERIES In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO...
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over a year ago
In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO of Nucleus Security. I was already excited by this vendor just based on the research I did to allow them to be a sponsor, but the conversation with them really made me think they’re...
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
8 months ago
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
5 months ago
Society's Backend
Anti-Social Media How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
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a year ago
How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
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...
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #4: 62 Total Resources Apple’s LLM OpenELM, GPT-4-Turbo, Phi-3, Grok-1.5 Vision, and more
8 months ago
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Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy...
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over a year ago
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 2: Mathematical Limitations of LLMs, A SQL Roadmap for Data Science, and... Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
2 months ago
The Berkeley...
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to a technology with real-world applications. Notable examples include DeepMind’s work on controlling a nuclear reactor or on improving Youtube video compression, or Tesla attempting...
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
a year ago
Society's Backend
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers”...
a month ago
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a month ago
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
AI Snake Oil
AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
8 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy...
a year ago
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a year ago
By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Will AI be open or closed? Will we be able to download and modify these models, or will a few...
Daniel Miessler
Your Experience is Your Creativity Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something...
a year ago
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a year ago
Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something that you have to open yourself to—that you have to allow in. But creativity is more like an inner forge of your past, perspectives, and passions. It’s not something you let in; it’s...
One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 032: The Insight Forum September 15, 2023.
a year ago
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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a year ago
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...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month 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...
Strange Loop Canon
The mystery of the garage
10 months ago
The Berkeley...
The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to...
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10 months ago
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development,...
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...
a year ago
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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...
Daniel Miessler
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole January 12, 2023.
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
a year ago
fast.ai
Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on this was written in April 2020 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
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...
Rozado’s Visual...
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
a year ago
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:
3 weeks ago
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
From Stable Diffusion to Stable Everything Inside Stability AI's roster of AI models.
7 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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over a year ago
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....
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024 Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
7 months ago
Marcus on AI
Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right
2 weeks ago
Matt Mazur
Exploring ChatGPT’s Knowledge Cutoff A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff date actually is. It seems like it should be straightforward enough to figure out (just ask it), but it can be confusing due to ChatGPT’s inconsistent answers...
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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a year ago
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
The Gradient
Financial Market Applications of LLMs The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer products like ChatGPT are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) that excel at modeling sequences of tokens that represent...
AI Snake Oil
Four more things we worked on in 2022 We had a busy 2022. Here are a few things we worked on but didn’t cover here.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.