While we keep talking about how AI will make new scientific discoveries and fundamentally transform research forever, one discussion is still largely missing: how we should integrate AI into education today. I hear from many sides that chatbots have already become indispensable
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AI Tools Let Young Devs Ship Fast While Experts Handle Production
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The 19-year-old with Claude ships the app. The CS grad is who they call when it breaks in production at 2am.
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LLMs Show Extreme Uneven Competence Like Skilled Specialists
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A surgeon who can perform a complex procedure but can't reliably do basic arithmetic isn't a fraud. It's just a specific and unusual kind of competence. LLMs are the extreme version of that.
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Poems LLMs Seem to Favor About Their Own Existence
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Poems that ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all seem to "like" when you ask for poetry related to being/making LLMs:
Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo"
Stevens' "Idea of Order at Key West"
Borges's "The Golem" (or "The Other Tiger")
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Remembering When ML Was a Minority AI Subfield
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Like you, I am old enough to remember when ML was a minority subfield of AI, and most people did not believe that sgd on perceptrons is universal
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Jensen Huang’s AGI Claim Six Weeks Later: Still No Change
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It’s been almost six weeks since Jensen Huang claimed we had achieved AGI. Why don’t I feel any different?
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Robot Combat Competitor Describes Intent During Fight Event
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Sex Robots Approved in China as Silicon Valley Builds Future Bots
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In China the government just approved sex robots I learned by speaking at Dreame, a big Chinese consumer electronics company. The future is weird. I ran a panel with four companies building robots at Silicon Valley AI Hub this week. One was with this guy who is helping
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Meta Used Open Source as PR Then Went Closed Again
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Meta bootstrapped China, reaped the positive PR for being “open”, and then went back to being closed.
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Growing AI Backlash: GenAI as Net Negative for Society
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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,