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Marcus on AI
Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan? Probably yes
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Marcus on AI
Questions about President Trump from a former psychology professor Is he well?
13 hours ago
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AI #110: Of Course You Know... Yeah.
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More Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation Greetings from Costa Rica!
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
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Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
Marcus on AI
AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters Don’t panic
2 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers) This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
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This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
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Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
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The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
IEEE Spectrum
Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments with Advanced Sealing Systems This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing deployment of collaborative robots (cobots) in outdoor environments presents significant engineering challenges, requiring highly advanced sealing solutions to ensure reliability and...
Society's Backend
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
3 days ago
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...
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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.
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OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile...
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Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.
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In defense of ruthless managers There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are...
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There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…
One Useful Thing
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation When Language Models Learn to See and Create
5 days ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars Thanks to Magnets A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less...
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A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly powered robot is currently very limited in how far it can travel away from the magnetic fields that drive its flight. However, the...
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
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Watch this 3D-Printed Robot Escape Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome...
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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos 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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 111: Gemini 2.5 Pro March 28, 2025.
a week ago
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Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Unwoven How the CoreWeave IPO may be the beginning of the end
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Tactical work in the age of layoffs In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life...
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In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life balance. Those glory days are over…
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AI #109: Google Fails Marketing Forever What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed?
a week ago
Marcus on AI
GenAI’s day of reckoning may have come It’s not just the stock price
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
GPT-4o is the new face of AI image generation The technical evolution reshaping AI's creative capabilities.
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Strange Loop Canon
If AGI is the future, vibe coding is what we should all be doing ...plus the changing definitions of work
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Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google...
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Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google continues to Fail Marketing Forever, OpenAI suddenly dropped GPT-4o Image Generation.
Marcus on AI
Musk, Grok, and “rigorous adherence to truth“ Elon Musk, yesterday: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.”
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On (Not) Feeling the AGI Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the...
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Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the history of OpenAI.
The Berkeley...
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
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Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those...
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More on Various AI Action Plans Last week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This...
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Last week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This week I cover several other submissions, and do some follow-up on OpenAI’s entry.
Win Vector LLC
Is There a Difference Between Calculation and Computation? Recently I’ve been producing (for my own amusement) example Curta calculations. One motivation was...
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Recently I’ve been producing (for my own amusement) example Curta calculations. One motivation was arguing if a proposed solution method for Dudeney’s digits problem was something that could in fact have been easily executed in 1924. This got me thinking, is there an actual...
One Useful Thing
The Cybernetic Teammate Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Meet Mech, a Superhumanoid Robot 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. European Robotics Forum: 25–27...
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs 3: AI Can't Be copyrighted, Don't Fall for Misinformation, and Stay Safe Online Machine learning for software engineers 3-21-25
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 110: Siri stumbles March 21, 2025.
a week ago
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They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t.
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others And they knew perfectly well what they were doing
2 weeks ago
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AI #108: Straight Line on a Graph The x-axis of the graph is time.
2 weeks ago
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Engineers should state the obvious One surprising thing I’ve learned from writing this blog is that I should worry a lot less about...
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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…
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The future of AI is Ruby on Rails Large language models are very good at generating and editing code. Right now, it’s probably the...
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Large language models are very good at generating and editing code. Right now, it’s probably the “killer app” of AI: the companies actually…
IEEE Spectrum
Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now)...
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When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now) that they’re doing what birds and primates would do to stick the landing: just grabbing the branch and hanging on. But it turns out that squirrels, being squirrels, don’t actually...
Artificial Ignorance
The Self-Made AI Engineer From writing about ChatGPT to becoming a professional AI engineer.
2 weeks ago
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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.’
Society's Backend
If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here How to get started and make the best use of Society's Backend
2 weeks ago
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OpenAI #11: America Action Plan OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are
2 weeks ago
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Monthly Roundup #28: March 2025 I plan to continue to leave the Trump administration out of monthly roundups - I will do my best to...
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I plan to continue to leave the Trump administration out of monthly roundups - I will do my best to only cover the administration as it relates to my particular focus areas.
Solving the decision...
drop that meet link just keep talking
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Xena
Think of a number: an update A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around...
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A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around private datasets as a way of measuring the mathematical abilities of language models. More generally I was frustrated about the difficulty of being … Continue reading →
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The good times in tech are over For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered...
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For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were…
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Refactoring to understand and "vibe coding" In the last months, the practice of getting a LLM to build your entire program for you (via Cursor,...
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In the last months, the practice of getting a LLM to build your entire program for you (via Cursor, or Copilot, or just asking ChatGPT) has…
Win Vector LLC
Changing Forecasts for Python Questions on Stack Overflow I recently conducted a small time series workshop session for AI+ training hosted by ODSC. It went...
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I recently conducted a small time series workshop session for AI+ training hosted by ODSC. It went really well, and I’d be happy to offer longer interactive workshops going forward (please reach out if your team would like one!). One of the examples I shared was derived from the...
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs #2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Exploring Phobos 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. European Robotics Forum: 25–27...
Marcus on AI
Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary... Real journalists do due diligence
2 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.
2 weeks ago
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On MAIM and Superintelligence Strategy Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence...
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Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence Strategy. There is also an op-ed in Time that summarizes.
Win Vector LLC
Is GitHub Lying Here? My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I...
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My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I went on my own to our organization’s GitHub administration page and a similar message lives there. We run a small group, so I am pretty sure nobody has in fact asked for […]
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AI #107: The Misplaced Hype Machine The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely...
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The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely hype, but there was very little there there in that Claude wrapper.
IEEE Spectrum
Kyiv Start-Up Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming...
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Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming could turn the tide in the war against Russia. They are developing an intelligent operating system to enable a single controller to remotely operate swarms of interconnected drones...
Marcus on AI
AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man Guess who won?
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
With Gemini Robotics, Google Aims for Smarter Robots Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI...
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Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI companies are introducing AI agents that can take care of web-based busywork for you, ordering your groceries or making your dinner reservation. Today, Google DeepMind announced two...
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The Most Forbidden Technique The Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques.
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Weighty Thoughts
What Mattered in GenAI in 2024 Despite the Noise, The Big Narratives from January are Still the Big Narratives
3 weeks ago
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Response to Scott Alexander on Imprisonment Back in November 2024, Scott Alexander asked: Do longer prison sentences reduce crime?
3 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
Speaking things into existence Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
3 weeks ago
Win Vector LLC
Don’t think of a basketball player, or search engines don’t even support “not” In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a...
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In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a while. This may be a small part of why the newer Large Language Models (LLMs) / Generative AIs look so good. The large language models at least implement a usable approximation of...
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The Manus Marketing Madness While at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come.
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Worm-like Robots Install Power Lines Underground After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to...
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After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to prevent future fires has gained renewed urgency in the state. While the exact cause of the fires remains under investigation, California utilities have spent years undergrounding power...
Marcus on AI
Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame GPT-5 may not be here, but just wait til you see the new round of hype
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Mantra Gajatri po polsku Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
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Model Context Protocol explained as simply as possible Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks,...
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Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks, interest in it seems to have really picked…
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What's next after the AI bubble bursts? In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five...
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In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five year period. This was all largely…
Society's Backend
Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 108: Vibecoding March 7, 2025.
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Childhood and Education #9: School is Hell This complication of tales from the world of school isn’t all negative.
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Great software design looks underwhelming Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very...
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Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward - building a CLI tool that hit an…
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AI #106: Not so Fast This was GPT-4.5 week.
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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...
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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”...
Artificial Ignorance
Introducing the Model Memo Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
4 weeks ago
Society's Backend
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
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Marcus on AI
Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence...
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In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence under Biden, entitled, The Government knows A.G.I.
Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
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Strange Loop Canon
In defense of Gemini a kvetch
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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...
4 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
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On Writing #1 This isn’t primarily about how I write.
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IEEE Spectrum
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project...
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Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project out of Ron Fearing’s lab at UC Berkeley. The palm-sized spring-loaded jumping robot has gone from barely being able to chain together a few open-loop jumps to mastering landings,...
Marcus on AI
Hinton vs Musk Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
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On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
a month ago
Win Vector LLC
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
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I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
Marcus on AI
Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
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Marcus on AI
OpenAI, in deep trouble Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
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With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
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Value over replacement in software engineering There are two ways of assessing how much value you’re providing as an engineer. The first way is to...
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There are two ways of assessing how much value you’re providing as an engineer. The first way is to total up all of the code you’ve shipped…
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Building your sense of what's important at a tech company One of the most important career skills in tech is learning to recognize what work actually matters....
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One of the most important career skills in tech is learning to recognize what work actually matters. Many engineers go through their careers…
Society's Backend
Code with AI but do it correctly ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5 February 28, 2025.
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On Emergent Misalignment One hell of a paper dropped this week.
a month ago
Marcus on AI
Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger Pure scaling in shambles
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
How would you interview an AI, to give it a job? from puzzles to poker
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AI #105: Hey There Alexa It’s happening!
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Solving the decision...
an event bus for ai agents it is very professional yes
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Marcus on AI
GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5 Investors should be worried
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Time to Welcome Claude 3.7 Anthropic has reemerged from stealth and offers us Claude 3.7.
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Paths through the space of all possible solutions Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed...
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Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed system, you can’t violate the CAP…
Marcus on AI
Elon Musk's inability to listen to others is torching almost everything he touches Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was...
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Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was taking a flamethrower to his own reputation.
Artificial Ignorance
Claude 3.7 and the banality of reasoning Plus Claude Code and notes on our rapidly converging AI future
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Economics Roundup #5 While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch...
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While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch up on the queue and look at various economics-related things.
One Useful Thing
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
a month ago
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Grok Grok This is a post in two parts.
a month 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
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Advice for prompting reasoning models I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models...
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I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models are different. When you’re using…
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How I know I'm working with a strong engineer There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE,...
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There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE, what projects they’ve worked on). I…
Win Vector LLC
The Statistics of Drawing Cards After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the...
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After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the methods used to characterize card counting. So, I’d like to share my new article on the statistics of drawing cards. This note relates the distribution of draw cards (which can seem...
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Weak managers In a previous post I made the point that having a weak manager - a manager without political clout -...
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In a previous post I made the point that having a weak manager - a manager without political clout - is really bad news if you’re an…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Helix Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 106: Grok 3 February 21, 2024.
a month ago
Society's Backend
Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which...
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About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spot’s joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this API unlocked some significant...
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On OpenAI's Model Spec 2.0 OpenAI made major revisions to their Model Spec.
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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…
Marcus on AI
GenAI in two words: ”Success Theater” Success Theater
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AI #104: American State Capacity on the Brink The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they...
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The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they have done in many other places and departments, seemingly purely because they want to find people they can fire.
fast.ai
fasttransform: Reversible Pipelines Made Simple Introducing fasttransform, a Python library that makes data transformations reversible and...
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Introducing fasttransform, a Python library that makes data transformations reversible and extensible through the power of multiple dispatch.
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code...
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AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
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The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
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AI #103: Show Me the Money The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build...
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Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality It brings me no joy to say that
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Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
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Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
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Five ways in which the last 3 months — and especially the DeepSeek era — have vindicated “Deep... A demonized paper from three years ago that has stood the test of time
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Irony too funny for words Oops
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Good engineers are right, a lot Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s...
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o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
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AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
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DeepSeek: Don't Panic As reactions continue, the word in Washington, and out of OpenAI, is distillation.
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AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
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𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on... [Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]
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DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
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OpenAI Cries Foul Irony is for losers
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Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to their American counterparts.
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Operator No one is talking about OpenAI’s Operator.
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I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025 and DeepSeek is relevant!). The 2024 AI money machine appears to have depended on several premises: The product would be valuable. The product would be very expensive to...
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DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions Share this with your friends and family.
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Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply
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Why AI labs offer so many different models Major AI labs these days (i.e. early 2025) offer a wide variety of models. Some are faster and...
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DeepSeek Panic at the App Store DeepSeek released v3.
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“Nvidia could soon take a serious hit, too” The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, but today might be the day.
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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these missions is still required. Which means...
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Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI
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Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments...
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Working fast and slow Some engineers work very consistently, putting in the same hours every day and getting out the same...
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AI Roundup 102: The Stargate Project January 24, 2024.
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Stargate AI-1 There was a comedy routine a few years ago.
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let's talk about a task tracking system for ai agents AI agents need tracking software, and we need to build it.
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AI in Hedge Funds and High Finance Talking about the future of AI in finance with Alex Campbell
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AI #100: Meet the New Boss Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.
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Hot take on an AI catfight Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
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On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
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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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What would a world with AGI look like?
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Sleep, Diet, Exercise and GLP-1 Drugs As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are...
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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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The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
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The unfortunate truth of software for technologists It's all about the money, baby
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Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025 Some points of order before we begin the monthly:
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My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
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Breaking news: AGI is not imminent! Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
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Hat Color Puzzles Introduction Theoretical computer scientists tend to love a class of problems I call “hat color”...
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Introduction Theoretical computer scientists tend to love a class of problems I call “hat color” puzzles. There seem to be only a few of these puzzles, yet they feel like examples or tests for a large and important class of methodologies. I’d like to introduce a few of these...
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Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
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AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
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Meta Pivots on Content Moderation There’s going to be some changes made.
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AI #99: Farewell to Biden The fun, as it were, is presumably about to begin.
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Call of Duty has a data science problem A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
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Giving pushback to leadership Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re...
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AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux The contrast couldn’t be starker
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The greatest movies never made A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
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On the OpenAI Economic Blueprint Table of Contents
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Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
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In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
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Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
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Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
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AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence” The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
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Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
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Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
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Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
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The impeccable logic of Sam Altman From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further...
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From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
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AI Roundup 100: CES January 10, 2025.
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This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
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Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
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Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia....
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Writing a tech blog people want to read My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing...
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Weighty Thoughts
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AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either. Much was quietly revealed yesterday
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Reposting Partial Pooling Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
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Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to...
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What makes strong engineers strong? As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
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As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025 And a review of last year's predictions.
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Is it cynical to do what your manager wants? When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to...
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When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to deliberately work on things your company…
Marcus on AI
The Five Stages of AGI Grief And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial...
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And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial General Intelligence means.
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...
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...
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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.
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Reflections The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
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The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Marcus on AI
AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
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IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot Introduces Modular Mobile Home Robot Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a...
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Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something...
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Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what...
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How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what determines who gets promoted and who…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Marcus on AI
Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history? In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’...
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In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico asked “15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators”, including me, “to provide some explosive potential...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not January 3, 2025.
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Society's Backend
3 Key Principles for AI at Scale [Part 2] The key to how large AI companies outcompete
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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
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Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
Marcus on AI
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI With a review of last year’s predictions
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Society's Backend
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024 The top 5 articles and resources
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In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of...
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The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of Wales and England. There, the ocean-exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the seafloor at depths up to 200 meters for weeks,...
Society's Backend
Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
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Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
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We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less) The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
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Win Vector LLC
What Fraction of Containerization is Just Working Around Dynamic Linking? Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average...
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Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average systems engineer wouldn’t dream of running something on an actual computer. Instead they would use Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, or who knows what else. These indirections or...
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024 2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
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2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
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How I got promoted to staff engineer twice At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I...
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At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. In…
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI stories that shaped 2024 Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Unitree Talent Awakening 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,...
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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
Society's Backend
Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
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Artificial Ignorance
o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
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Weighty Thoughts
Writing, Originality, and Why Does Anyone Care What I Write About? Musings, Insecurities, and Thoughts on Writing a Book (or Substack)
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Xena
Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician. So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's...
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So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's start by explaining what this means. Continue reading →