This thread has a very good summary of the strengths and limitations of the recent Microsoft study of AI diagnostic ability.
@erikbryn
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Global GDP Rankings Reveal World Economic Power Distribution
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One can quibble about purchasing power parity, etc., but this list of GDP by country is a good reminder of where most of the economic power is in the world.
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VC recent vintage returns underperforming what drives concerns
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The low returns, so far, for recent vintages of VC is remarkable. Can you say more about what you think is driving that? Are you concerned?
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High-skilled immigration as America’s competitive advantage
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As an immigrant myself and as a person who has had the privilege of working closely with hundreds of brilliant immigrants, I join @AndrewYNg in supporting high-skilled, legal immigration. It's America's greatest competitive advantage. It's tragic to see it being destroyed.
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CEOs Managing AI Agents: Strategic Goals and Implementation
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“We’re all going to be C.E.O.s of a small army of A.I. agents. We have to think, OK: What is it we really want to accomplish? What are the goals here? And we have to think a little bit more deeply about that than we have in the past.”
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Global Talent Crucial for American Innovation Leadership
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Innovation is not a zero sum game. Americans innovate better when working alongside the best and the brightest from around the world. Being a magnet for talent has historically been Silicon Valley's, and America's, biggest strength.
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AI as General-Purpose Technology: Catalyst for Innovation
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Carl is right. AI is already boosting productivity in many tasks, but the real power of general-purpose technologies, from the steam engine and electricity to AI, lies in catalyzing new products and processes.
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AI Agents Automation Potential Misaligned With Fulfilling Work
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Some tasks are painful to do.
But some are fulfilling and fun. How do they line up with the tasks that AI agents are set to automate? Not that well, based on our new paper "Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce" -
AI Systems Achieving Remarkable Results Without True Thinking
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Not bad for AI systems that are not doing "real thinking".
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Large Reasoning Models Show Inconsistent Effort Across Problem Complexity
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Despite the catchy title, that's not what the paper says. It says "[large reasoning models] reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines…they reason inconsistently across puzzles" Is human reasoning effort ever inconsistent?