45

AI's Endgame (How Foundational Model Companies Can “Win”)

4 months ago

from Weighty Thoughts in AI

Playing monopoly in 2025

33

Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble

4 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

How Meta's messy launch overshadowed its latest flagship model.

32

Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday,...

40

How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree

4 months ago

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

My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at Google in 6 years without a master's degree or PhD

15

How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree

4 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at Google in 6 years without a master's degree or PhD

22

AI Creativity: 2 Types, One Possible, One Impossible

4 months ago

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk in AI

Notes From the Desk: No. 44 - 2025.04.09

156

AI 2027: Responses

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Yesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander. Today covers the reactions of...

48

Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

4 months ago

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog in AI

PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein...

37

Deep Learning, Deep Scandal

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Some of the big tech giants may be playing fast and loose with AI

35

Vibe Governing

4 months ago

from Strange Loop Canon in AI

using llms to set policy

45

AI 2027: Dwarkesh's Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future holds. His ‘What...

33

BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been gutted.

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

I hope the media will look into this

57

Video Friday: RIVR Delivers Your Package

4 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...

44

AI CoT Reasoning Is Often Unfaithful

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see...

46

AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again

4 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

April 4, 2025.

44

ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think

4 months ago

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

Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25

13

ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think

4 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25

32

Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan?

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Probably yes

40

AI #110: Of Course You Know...

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Yeah.

43

Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

4 months ago

from Piotr Migdał's Blog in AI

Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese,...

38

AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Don’t panic

36

How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy...

31

Housing Roundup #11

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s...

43

Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments with Advanced Sealing Systems

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing deployment of collaborative robots (cobots) in outdoor...

31

3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career

4 months ago

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

What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them

12

3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career

4 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them

38

Breaking GPT-5 news

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.

39

OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.

50

In defense of ruthless managers

4 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…

22

I'm Leaving Sentry

4 months ago

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings in AI

Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years ago I took a leap into the unknown, today I take...

45

No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation

4 months ago

from One Useful Thing in AI

When Language Models Learn to See and Create

24

Studio Ghibli - AI's Latest Art Crisis

4 months ago

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk in AI

Notes From the Desk: No. 43 - 2025.03.28

48

The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars Thanks to Magnets

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly...

36

ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o Image Generation

4 months ago

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

Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25

12

ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o Image Generation

4 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25

54

Video Friday: Watch this 3D-Printed Robot Escape

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...

36

AI Roundup 111: Gemini 2.5 Pro

4 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

March 28, 2025.

49

Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.

64

Unwoven

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

How the CoreWeave IPO may be the beginning of the end

51

Tactical work in the age of layoffs

4 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life balance. Those glory days are over…

32

AI #109: Google Fails Marketing Forever

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed?

41

GenAI’s day of reckoning may have come

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

It’s not just the stock price

22

Rust Any Part 3: Finally we have Upcasts

4 months ago

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings in AI

Three years ago I shared the As-Any Hack on this blog. That hack is a way to get upcasting to supertraits working on stable Rust. To refresh your...

37

GPT-4o is the new face of AI image generation

4 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

The technical evolution reshaping AI's creative capabilities.

48

If AGI is the future, vibe coding is what we should all be doing

4 months ago

from Strange Loop Canon in AI

...plus the changing definitions of work

40

Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google continues to Fail Marketing Forever, OpenAI...

61

Musk, Grok, and “rigorous adherence to truth“

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Elon Musk, yesterday: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.”

40

On (Not) Feeling the AGI

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the history of OpenAI.

46

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

4 months ago

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog in AI

Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway...

44

More on Various AI Action Plans

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Last week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This week I cover several other submissions, and do some...