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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 106: Grok 3 February 21, 2024.
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On OpenAI's Model Spec 2.0 OpenAI made major revisions to their Model Spec.
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Society's Backend
Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
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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...
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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.
Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Beta in Shambles Maximal Truth still seems far away
3 days ago
Society's Backend
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
4 days ago
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Medical Roundup #4 It seems like as other things drew our attention more, medical news slowed down.
4 days ago
Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Hot Take Elon Musk promised that Grok 3 would be the smartest AI ever.
4 days ago
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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
5 days ago
Marcus on AI
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him
6 days ago
Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
6 days ago
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Lessons on thinking from large language models Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars...
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Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars have been spent to study how they think…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: PARTNR Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
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.
a week ago
Society's Backend
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
a week ago
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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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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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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
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
a week ago
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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
a week ago
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.
2 weeks ago
Society's Backend
Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
2 weeks ago
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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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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
2 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
2 weeks ago
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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"
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
ChatGPT in Shambles After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
We're in Deep Research The latest addition to OpenAI’s Pro offerings is their version of Deep Research.
2 weeks ago
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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
2 weeks ago
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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
2 weeks 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
2 weeks ago
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
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Aibo Foster Parents Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
3 weeks 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
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific...
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AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific regional accents. And with just a few seconds of audio, AI can now clone someone’s specific voice. AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language....
Don't Worry About...
AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
3 weeks ago
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.]
3 weeks ago
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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.
3 weeks ago
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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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.
3 weeks 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
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek Panic at the App Store DeepSeek released v3.
3 weeks 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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Marcus on AI
The race for "AI Supremacy" is over — at least for now. Decades of government kowtowing to Big Tech has thus far failed to produce a decisive victory
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IEEE Spectrum
Just How Many Robots Can One Person Control at Once? This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE...
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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these missions is still required. Which means...
One Useful Thing
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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When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments accusing me of trying to get ahead at the…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Hottest On The Ice Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 102: The Stargate Project January 24, 2024.
4 weeks ago
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Stargate AI-1 There was a comedy routine a few years ago.
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Society's Backend
Open AI beats OpenAI, Understand Scaling Laws, Commerce in the Age of AI Agents, and More Society's Backend Reading List 01-24-2025
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Why are big tech companies so slow? Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer...
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Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. This fact…
Solving the decision...
let's talk about a task tracking system for ai agents AI agents need tracking software, and we need to build it.
4 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI in Hedge Funds and High Finance Talking about the future of AI in finance with Alex Campbell
4 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #100: Meet the New Boss Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.
4 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Hot take on an AI catfight Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
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Don't Worry About...
On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
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Artificial Ignorance
R1 is reasoning for the masses Why everyone's focused on DeepSeek's new R1 model - and what it means for AI geopolitics.
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Strange Loop Canon
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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As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are all different and our motivations are different, so figuring out the best things to do is difficult.
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species...
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Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality data that can be fed into...
Marcus on AI
The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
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Solving the decision...
The unfortunate truth of software for technologists It's all about the money, baby
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025 Some points of order before we begin the monthly:
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Xena
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
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My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent! Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
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Win Vector LLC
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...
AI Tidbits: AI...
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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Weighty Thoughts
My Book's Pre-Sale is Live! Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
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Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand....
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If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things…
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It? The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade 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 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
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Don't Worry About...
Meta Pivots on Content Moderation There’s going to be some changes made.
a month ago
Society's Backend
Multimodal Biometric Authentication, Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2024, 5 Common Mistakes to... Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
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Don't Worry About...
AI #99: Farewell to Biden The fun, as it were, is presumably about to begin.
a month ago
Society's Backend
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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Marcus on AI
“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones” also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
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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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Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re proposing a timeline that can’t be…
Marcus on AI
AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux The contrast couldn’t be starker
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Artificial Ignorance
The greatest movies never made A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
On the OpenAI Economic Blueprint Table of Contents
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IEEE Spectrum
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 be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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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Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence” The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
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Don't Worry About...
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.
Society's Backend
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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Marcus on AI
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:
Matt Mazur
2024 Year in Review At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
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At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Arms on Vacuums 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 100: CES January 10, 2025.
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IEEE Spectrum
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...
One Useful Thing
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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For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
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Marcus on AI
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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Win Vector LLC
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
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Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
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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...
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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...
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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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Introduction It can be fun to drive a problem all the way into the ground. I don’t always get to do that on paying projects, however sometimes I can do it with hobby projects. In this case I am going to re-solve Dudeney’s Remainder Problem again and again to argue […]
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Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going “hands on” with a practical factory task. This video is notable because it’s the first real look we’ve had at the new Atlas doing...
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