Nouveau “CEO said a thing!”
A blistering guide to what lazy journalism too often looks like
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Récent The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models
When a model achieves a “top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images” you know something is deeply wrong.
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War and AI, the death of Sora, and 3 ways you can catch me live today
With apologies for the short notice, a few quick announcements:
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BREAKING: Sam Altman concedes that we need major breakthroughs beyond mere scaling to get to AGI
It’s past time to look for new architectures
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BREAKING: Expensive new evidence that scaling is not all you need
Two more colossally expensive experiments have failed
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Is the US military actually afraid of Claude? A new theory of why Anthropic was labeled a supply chain risk.
Unpacking a perplexing argument from the Pentagon
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“A spate of outages, including incidents tied to the use of AI coding tools”, right on schedule
Some with “high blast radius”
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Anthropic sues US government, with good reason
As I wrote yesterday, Dario Amodei is no saint, but I fully support his company’s new lawsuit against the US government.
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There are no heroes in commercial AI
When it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that much different from Sam Altman
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Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s lives
“The problem comes down to how A.I. chatbots are fundamentally designed”
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Breaking: “sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt”
LLMs are an epistemic nightmare
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How AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled humanity
The road to where we are now was (mostly) paved with good intentions — but mixed with too much uncritical acceptance of hype.
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Is AI already killing people by accident?
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of AI.
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