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What to do when the AI blackmails you

2 months ago

from Strange Loop Canon in AI

in questions we're all going to have to learn to ask

42

Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd

2 months ago

from One Useful Thing in AI

A formula for AI in companies

31

Everything developers should know about from Google I/O 2025

2 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

An overview of important updates and why they're important

30

Everything developers should know about from Google I/O 2025

2 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

An overview of important updates and why they're important

32

SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization

2 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

What happens when your customers come directly from ChatGPT?

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The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate Selection

2 months ago

from Rozado’s Visual Analytics in AI

Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems

29

Betting on AI risk

2 months ago

from Strange Loop Canon in AI

I. If you think the world will end because of AI, how do you bet on that?

28

AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve

2 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

May 16, 2025.

38

How to be an agentic engineer

2 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how

19

How to be an agentic engineer

2 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how

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The Pope gets it

2 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

In age when few political leaders are engaging with AI, Pope Leo XIV gets it.

31

The importance of character in software engineering

3 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become a better software engineer often center around...

48

Video Friday: Robotic Hippotherapy Horse Riding Simulator

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from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

31

AI Roundup 117: Google Killer

3 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

May 9, 2025.

34

Cheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Cheaters.

30

”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs?

3 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Society is once again left holding the bag

30

OpenAI's $3B Bet

3 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

Unpacking OpenAI's latest acquisition of Windsurf.

29

How projects fail at large tech companies

3 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I’ve said many times, failure means executives aren’t happy with how the project turned out. At...

28

Help me improve Society's Backend!

3 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Two simple questions to help make Society's Backend better

24

Help me improve Society's Backend!

3 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Two simple questions to help make Society's Backend better

29

OpenAI Claims Nonprofit Will Retain Nominal Control

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Your voice has been heard.

34

How About Pi ~ 31/32?

3 months ago

from Win Vector LLC in AI

At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 = 3.1 is a worse approximation of pi than 22/7 ~...

25

All your data belong to us

3 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Surveillance shit is about to get real

40

Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

3 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system...

29

Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons

3 months ago

from Strange Loop Canon in AI

On digging AI shaped holes

29

Technology Review jumps the shark

3 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

The ultimate in nonsensical AI puff pieces, featuring the ubiquitous Bryan Johnson

26

Zuckerberg's Dystopian AI Vision

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

You think it’s bad now?

30

Don’t Let a Data Leak Sink Your Project

3 months ago

from Win Vector LLC in AI

One of the bigger risks of iterative statistical or machine learning fitting procedures is over-fit or the dreaded data leak. Over-fit is when: a...

22

Getting things "done" in large tech companies

3 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

What does it mean to get things done? In the abstract, you can complete a mathematical proof or a problem set, but the real world is much fuzzier....

26

Why DO large language models hallucinate?

3 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

The Henrietta Chronicles continue, guest starring Harry Shearer

31

GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how OpenAI responded to that.

25

Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

3 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25

21

Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

3 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25

16

The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense

3 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much

25

Video Friday: Robots for Extreme Environments

3 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

22

AI Roundup 116: LlamaCon / Meta AI

3 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

May 2, 2025.

17

OpenAI Preparedness Framework 2.0

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Right before releasing o3, OpenAI updated its Preparedness Framework to 2.0.

16

Bot Milk?

3 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

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...

17

AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking.

20

AGI is not a milestone

3 months ago

from AI Snake Oil in AI

There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts

22

Personality and Persuasion

3 months ago

from One Useful Thing in AI

Learning from Sycophants

14

GPT-4o Responds to Negative Feedback

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Whoops.

20

Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025

3 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers

16

Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025

3 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers

20

Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too)

3 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?

25

The valley of engineering despair

3 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

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...

25

Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis Isn’t

3 months ago

from Win Vector LLC in AI

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...

21

Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8)

3 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25

15

Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8)

3 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25

14

Dating Roundup #4: An App for That

3 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Previously: #1, #2, #3.