21 posts tagged with AI
What if this version of "business as usual" reality comes true. Seems like a good frame to have in your mental toolbox when thinking about the future path of AI. in a post-AGI world, people will simply get used to the fact that computers can solve cognitive problems quickly, and…
This is the most intellectually honest opinion to have about AI. Philippe Lemoine I think that if progress in generative AI continues, which I'm pretty sure it will (it doesn't even have to continue at the current pace as long as decreasing marginal returns don't hit too hard),…
This is an interesting take by Daniel Rock I don't happen to believe AI is going to take away all of the jobs. But it is possibly a blindspot-generating issue that the people studying AI's impacts mostly love their…
Interesting take by Like Burgis. This is stuck in my mental craw for some reason I would also now add a surprising element to my 2024 essay: as the cost of cognition approaches zero, that which is repeatable will be replaceable—and will indeed be replaced—by AI (a favorite…
Interesting article in the _Economist_ on how AI can help customers being ripped off The extent to which AI truly eliminates rip-off markets depends on two things. First, consumers need to know how to use AI properly.
I'm still reading through this brilliant and thoughtful post by Tom Cunningham, but it's so thoughtfully written. There is no standard definition of machine intelligence. There have been many attempts to give a definition or a metric of machine intelligence but…
Interesting take on the institutional impact of AI by Will Rinehart A lot of people are likening the advent of AI to moveable type. The printing press brought about the conditions for the Reformation, therefore significant institutional change is coming with AI.
Thoughtful essay on the role of colleges in the age of AI The Question We Can No Longer Dodge If AI can already produce an A– college essay in 30 seconds — on demand, at scale — then what exactly is college for? Is it certification? Content delivery? A rite of passage?
If LLMs aren't making you feel like shit, you're not thinking hard enough During the Q and A after his talk, Cowen said that LLMs are already “kicking our butt” at many things, including poetry.
A few good rabbit holes The illusion of knowledge AI capex boom China and weaponized…
Here's how the great Terrence Tao uses AI. Lot's of takeaways here for us lesser mortals. I was able to use an extended conversation with an AI https://chatgpt.com/share/68ded9b1-37dc-800e-b04c-97095c70eb29 to help answer a MathOverflow question…
As always, another thoughtful article by Ethan Mollick on what AI can and cannot do Agents are here. They can do real work, and while that work is still limited, it is valuable and increasing.
Pew published a report on how Americans use and view AI, and it's quite interesting. Americans are much more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life, with a majority saying they want more control over how AI is used in their lives.
Google DeepMind's Gemini and OpenAI achieved gold-medal-level performance at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals. OpenAI's Mostafa Rohaninejad We officially competed in the onsite AI track of the ICPC, with the same 5-hour time limit to…
File this under hopeful naïveté, naïve idiocy, or pointlessly hopeless romanticism. I was playing around with Gemini’s new image model, NanoBanana, and I was shocked at how good it was.
File under US-China tech cold war. Anthropic to stop selling services to Chinese companies The policy, which takes effect immediately, will potentially apply to Chinese companies from ByteDance and Tencent to Alibaba.
Benedict Evans is one of the most thoughtful writers on technology. Whenever I listen to him, I end up feeling embarrassed, because I keep thinking: why can’t I think like that? 😬 Unlike many other commentators, Ben has a very practical and measured view of AI.
I was listening to a conversation between Jack Clarke, co-founder of Anthropic, and Tyler Cowen. It was an interesting conversation with some interesting things that made me go, "Ooh, that's interesting," and a lot of vague, hand-wavy, speculative predictions that are…
Sabine Hossenfelder tried to “vibe physics” using popular LLM models, and she was underwhelmed. So if you’re a physicist, I guess your job is safe for now. I’m not a physicist myself, and I couldn’t understand half the things Sabine said.
I’m a huge fan of Venkatesh Rao’s writing and I reread this essay on his experience with AI-assisted writing. Now that pretty much everybody has access some basic large language models (LLMs) through the free plans of ChatGPT or the better Chinese models like DeepSeek and Qwen,…
Making sense of reality as it unfolds is always hard because of the variance in outcomes. With Artificial Intelligence, that difficulty compounds massively. Both the narrative variance and the actual variance of potential AI outcomes are so vast that having strong opinions isn’t…