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Bot Milk? I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy...
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I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy cows and a creamery in Louisville, Ky., that bore the family name. One fateful day in early April 1944, Harry was milking his cows when a heavy metallic part of his homemade...
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AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking.
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AI Snake Oil
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
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One Useful Thing
Personality and Persuasion Learning from Sycophants
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GPT-4o Responds to Negative Feedback Whoops.
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Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
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Machine Learning for...
Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
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Artificial Ignorance
Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too) AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?
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The valley of engineering despair I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very...
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I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very (perhaps unreasonably) confident that I will ship it successfully. Even so, in every single one of these projects there is a period - perhaps a day, or even a week - where it feels...
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Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis Isn’t I have a new “crazy theorists” article up: “Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis...
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I have a new “crazy theorists” article up: “Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis Isn’t.” It is my notes on reading through Jonassen and Knuth’s amazing 1978 article analyzing 2 to 3 node search trees. You would think there couldn’t be a lot to that. But there is! I...
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Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8) Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25
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Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8) Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25
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Dating Roundup #4: An App for That Previously: #1, #2, #3.
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even...
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People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was written by someone else, to counteract the model’s natural desire to shower praise on the user. With the latest GPT-4o...
Strange Loop Canon
Deplatforming: AI edition “This would feel like getting stabbed in the heart.”
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Worries About AI Are Usually Complements Not Substitutes A common claim is that concern about [X] ‘distracts’ from concern about [Y].
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Made by Ollin
World Emulation via Neural Network
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: High Mobility Robots for Logistics 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. ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 115: US v. Google April 25, 2025.
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Marcus on AI
New adventures in AI hype: “Our language models are so ‘conscious’ we need to give them rights” The return of nonsense on stilts, three years later
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The OpenAI house style is exhausting I was reading this Reddit post when I noticed a pattern: a few times now I’ve seen a negative Reddit...
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I was reading this Reddit post when I noticed a pattern: a few times now I’ve seen a negative Reddit comment that to me just screamed “written by ChatGPT”. Here it is, in full: Yes, you’re the asshole. And not because you owe them money — let’s kill that fantasy right now — but...
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AI #113: The o3 Era Begins Enjoy it while it lasts.
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Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s dirty December o3 demo doesn’t readily replicate Don’t believe everything you see
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o3 Is a Lying Liar I love o3.
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Rozado’s Visual...
New Results of State-of-the-art LLMs on 4 Political Orientation Tests One model appears closer to the center than the rest
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You Better Mechanize Or you had better not.
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Weighty Thoughts
What LLMs Will Do To Jobs: All You Need is an Oracle LLMs are Mainly Tools That Enhance Experts
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Crime and Punishment #1 This seemed like a good next topic to spin off from monthlies and make into its own occasional...
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When you should lie to the language model Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was...
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Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else. The problem is that…
One Useful Thing
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after New models and new thresholds
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Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments Some people really, really don’t like AI. Broadly speaking, being anti-AI is a popular left-wing...
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Some people really, really don’t like AI. Broadly speaking, being anti-AI is a popular left-wing position: AI is cringe, it’s plagiarism, it…
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o3 Will Use Its Tools For You OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini.
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Boxing 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. RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025,...
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ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
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ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 114: One of those weeks April 18, 2024.
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Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s o3 and Tyler Cowen’s Misguided AGI Fantasy AI can only improve if its limits as well as its strengths are faced honestly
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Artificial Ignorance
The MCP Revolution Why this open standard is becoming essential infrastructure for AI agents.
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AI #112: Release the Everything OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models.
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IEEE Spectrum
The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. The cutting edge of robotics and artificial...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of the e-commerce company Amazon. As...
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GPT-4.1 Is a Mini Upgrade Yesterday’s news alert, nevertheless: The verdict is in.
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Marcus on AI
”Those claiming we’re mere months away from AI agents replacing most programmers” should think again AI agents will change the world. But not this year.
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How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
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Machine Learning for...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
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Marcus on AI
Altman vs Musk cage match Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
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Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
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OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on...
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Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman’s very good TED Interview.
AI Snake Oil
AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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Marcus on AI
Sam Altman’s attitude problem What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their...
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What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their creations are used”?
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A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often...
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Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…
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Monthly Roundup #29: April 2025 In Monthly Roundup #28 I made clear I intend to leave the Trump administration out of my monthly...
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In Monthly Roundup #28 I made clear I intend to leave the Trump administration out of my monthly roundups, for both better and worse, outside of my focus areas.