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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.
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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
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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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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…
Don't Worry About...
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!
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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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On OpenAI's Safety and Alignment Philosophy OpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and...
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Marcus on AI
Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
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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.
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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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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 week ago
Marcus on AI
Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger Pure scaling in shambles
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Strange Loop Canon
How would you interview an AI, to give it a job? from puzzles to poker
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Don't Worry About...
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
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Don't Worry About...
Grok Grok This is a post in two parts.
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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.
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Society's Backend
Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
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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.
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Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
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Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Beta in Shambles Maximal Truth still seems far away
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Jaz's Blog
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
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Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
Society's Backend
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
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Medical Roundup #4 It seems like as other things drew our attention more, medical news slowed down.
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Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Hot Take Elon Musk promised that Grok 3 would be the smartest AI ever.
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Marcus on AI
AlphaGeometry2: Impressive accomplishment, but still a long path ahead What GoogleDeepMind’s latest does and doesn’t show, and what we like about it
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Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #27: February 2025 I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the...
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I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the various machinations of DOGE.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
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Marcus on AI
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him
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Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
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Lessons on thinking from large language models Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars...
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Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars have been spent to study how they think…
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code...
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It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: PARTNR Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
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Don't Worry About...
The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
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Society's Backend
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
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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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The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build upon the promise of the Bletchley and Seoul Summits, the French and Americans did their best to actively destroy what hope remained, transforming the event into a push for a mix of...
Marcus on AI
Breaking: OpenAI's efforts at pure scaling have hit a wall — There is no wall
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Don't Worry About...
The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit It doesn’t look good.
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IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
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In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Marcus on AI
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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Don't Worry About...
On Deliberative Alignment Not too long ago, OpenAI presented a paper on their new strategy of Deliberative Alignment.
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Marcus on AI
Did Elon Musk just Mu$k Sam Altman? With some bonus eye candy to lighten the mood
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Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
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Marcus on AI
Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
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Don't Worry About...
Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
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Solving the decision...
call me maybe AI agents should be addressable
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Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team...
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Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven…
Marcus on AI
Shame on Google, twice A very, very brief Super Bowl special
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Xena
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
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Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean, because they have been taught a specific model for quotients in their classes, which is not the model that Lean uses. This post is an attempt to … Continue reading →
Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
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Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
Marcus on AI
WARNING: Elon Musk is crippling the future of the United States And I am not sure he even understands the consequences of his own actions
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Marcus on AI
Five ways in which the last 3 months — and especially the DeepSeek era — have vindicated “Deep... A demonized paper from three years ago that has stood the test of time
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Weighty Thoughts
How Will AI Impact Law Firms? An interview with Devansh from Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Humanoids Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 104: Deep Research February 7, 2025.
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Society's Backend
Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
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Don't Worry About...
On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks This week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s...
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AI #102: Made in America I remember that week I used r1 a lot, and everyone was obsessed with DeepSeek.
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Marcus on AI
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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Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about…
Society's Backend
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
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Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
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The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more...
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The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more dramatic goes wrong first and even we successfully ‘solve alignment’ of AI to a given user and developer, is the ‘gradual’ disempowerment of humanity by AIs, as we voluntarily...
Marcus on AI
Google, 2001: Don’t Be Evil Google, 2025: Fuck It
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Weighty Thoughts
AI Winters and The Third Wave of Today A sneak preview from my upcoming book "What You Need To Know About AI"
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Marcus on AI
ChatGPT in Shambles After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist
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We're in Deep Research The latest addition to OpenAI’s Pro offerings is their version of Deep Research.
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re...
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Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever…
Marcus on AI
Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
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o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
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One Useful Thing
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here
a month ago
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
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Weighty Thoughts
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
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Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
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IEEE Spectrum
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one...
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IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one place since the filming of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” Not a single entrant made it across the finish line. Some didn’t make it out of the parking lot. So it’s all the more...
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
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I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
Society's Backend
Why Medical AI is Garbage, Realistic Perspectives on DeepSeek Models, Understanding Reasoning... An AI engineer's must-reads for 1/31/25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Aibo Foster Parents Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
a month ago
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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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Are DeepSeek's new models really that fast and cheap? Everyone’s saying that DeepSeek’s latest models represent a significant improvement over the work...
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Everyone’s saying that DeepSeek’s latest models represent a significant improvement over the work from American AI labs. If they’re not…
Solving the decision...
Durable Objects Callbacks are Weird but it's also convenient to solve human-in-the-loop for ai agents
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IEEE Spectrum
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific...
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AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific regional accents. And with just a few seconds of audio, AI can now clone someone’s specific voice. AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language....
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AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
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Marcus on AI
𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on... [Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]
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Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
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Marcus on AI
OpenAI Cries Foul Irony is for losers
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Preferences of DeepSeek AI Models Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to...
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Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to their American counterparts.
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Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
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Operator No one is talking about OpenAI’s Operator.
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Win Vector LLC
Trying to Describe 2024 AI Premises I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025...
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I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025 and DeepSeek is relevant!). The 2024 AI money machine appears to have depended on several premises: The product would be valuable. The product would be very expensive to...
Artificial Ignorance
DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions Share this with your friends and family.
a month ago
Weighty Thoughts
Who’s Winning the AI War: 2025 (DeepSeek?) Edition Same fundamentals, new unhinged vibes
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Marcus on AI
Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply
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Why AI labs offer so many different models Major AI labs these days (i.e. early 2025) offer a wide variety of models. Some are faster and...
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Major AI labs these days (i.e. early 2025) offer a wide variety of models. Some are faster and cheaper, some are smarter, and now some are…
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
a month ago
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DeepSeek Panic at the App Store DeepSeek released v3.
a month ago
Marcus on AI
“Nvidia could soon take a serious hit, too” The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, but today might be the day.
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Solving the decision...
Reliable UX for AI chat with Durable Objects What is says on the tin.
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Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already...
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So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing. Continue reading →
Marcus on AI
Casey (Newton) Strikes Out His continued skepticism of AI skepticism continues to miss the mark
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IEEE Spectrum
Fish-Inspired Sensor "Touches" Using Electric Fields The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s...
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The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s a real ability that some creatures have. A family of African fish known as Mormyrids are weakly electric, and have special organs that can locate a nearby prey, whether it’s in...
Society's Backend
LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
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Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
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Solving the decision...
A list of reasons why you should be using Cloudflare Workers for building your AI agent... (It's only shilling if it's posted during working hours. I'm on my lunch break.)
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One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
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Marcus on AI
Don’t Ride This Bike! Generative AI’s persistent trouble with compositionality and parts When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us,...
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When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us, together with Scott Aaronson, ran some informal experiments to probe its abilities.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Multiple MagicBots 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...
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
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas December 6, 2024.
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Marcus on AI
Two visions of AI’s future It’s not looking good
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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...
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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.
Artificial Ignorance
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
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Society's Backend
A Fundamental Overview of Machine Learning Experimentation [Part 1] And how it differs from the software development you're familiar with
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IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
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“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Solving the decision...
Three missing primitives in every UI framework (please build them)
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Society's Backend
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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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
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Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
Solving the decision...
Durable Objects are Computers / Containers / Servers (everything old is new again)
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 095: QwQ November 29, 2024.
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Marcus on AI
ChatGPT, at Age Two The bullshit just keeps on coming.
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AI Tidbits: AI...
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries every developer needs to build functional and efficient AI...
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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:
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Artificial Ignorance
Case Study: Scaling customer intelligence Analyzing 10,000 sales calls with Claude
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Win Vector LLC
Examining Meta-Analysis Joseph Rickert and I put together an experiment trying to both run a standard meta-analysis and then...
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Joseph Rickert and I put together an experiment trying to both run a standard meta-analysis and then reproduce similar results directly using Bayesian methods. I think it came out really interesting and we share it here at R Works and also here on Github. A meta-analysis is an...
Marcus on AI
Update re: Microsoft and training data Relevant to the post I sent earlier today,...
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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...
Marcus on AI
PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge The Great Data Heist continues.
3 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
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Marcus on AI
A new AI scaling law shell game? Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
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One Useful Thing
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard
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Marcus on AI
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
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IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
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 094: Pixtral et Le Chat November 22, 2024.
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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”...
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Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
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I don't know how to build software and you don't either Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it...
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Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it better to have that dictated by some…
Marcus on AI
On hype, and the unbearable banality of ChatGPT’s poetry A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is...
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A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is “indistinguishable” from William Shakespeare.
Strange Loop Canon
When we become cogs on motivation and technology
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