Why is the AI backlash growing? Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society. GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance,
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Distribution Shift Remains the Key Challenge to Win AI
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Whoever solves the problem of distribution shift first wins.
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Neurosymbolic AI Will Outperform Pure LLMs in AI Race
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Neurosymbolic AI (rather than pure LLMs) will win the AI race.
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Claude’s Alignment Problem: Ignoring User Background Beliefs
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This is actually a version of an alignment problem. Humans have background beliefs (don’t waste large sums of money without telling me) and Claude doesn’t respect those. Caveat emptor.
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Debating Whether Claude Has Any Real Consciousness or Feelings
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“Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to wax poetic about orgasm, but that doesn't mean it has ever felt one.” I dissect Richard
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LLM Alignment Remains Unsolved Risk at Massive Deployment Scale
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If you think you are going to get alignment out of LLMs you are sadly mistaken. If you live in a society in which people are rolling out LLMs at massive scale, without a robust solution to alignment (or even managing gremlins) you’re probably fucked. Resist the proliferation of
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AI Contributions to GDP: Are They Meaningful or Misleading?
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AI and GDP – what does it mean? Sure, AI is “contributing” to GDP — but @davidsacks really nails it below, “Paying people to dig holes and fill them back up increases GDP, as it is currently measured, even though that activity has no value.” In the case of AI, GDP is going up
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Why Compiling Code Doesn’t Mean Correct AI-Generated Software
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“Marcus’ specific point about coding is structurally important: a model that produces code which compiles and passes the tests it was given is not the same as a model that produces correct, secure, maintainable, well-architected software. The first is verifiable in seconds; the
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Agentic Code Risks Demand Roadmaps and Human Code Reviews
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this is … odd. the whole problem with agentic code is that people wind up with hard to debug redundancies, security holes, deleted databases, etc., which is exactly why you need roadmaps and code reviews, with AI-written code. I am with @Grady_Booch on this one (and almost
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Open Letter to Musk: Don’t Leave AI Industry Unregulated
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Dear @elonmusk
, If you still genuinely care about AI safety, you can’t let the Trump administration leave the AI industry almost entirely unregulated. You just can’t. – Gary