Disappointed by the lack of progress on the realtime voice AI front. They'd be so good for debating ideas if they weren't as dumb as rocks.
GENERATIVE AI
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AI Progress, Evals, and Reinforcement Learning in Job Market
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quite a privilege to be a guest on Odd Lots! talked w joe & tracy about pace of progress in AI, broken evals, the crazy job market, and the difference between supervised and reinforcement learning
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Machine Consciousness Possible: Computing Power Matches Brain Capabilities
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I do not see a reason to believe that machine consciousness is impossible: speed and resolution of our conscious experience is consistent with the properties of observable neural activity, and today’s computers seem to be about as powerful as our brains.
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OpenAI reasoning system answer selection without test-time harness
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OpenAI say "the reasoning system selected which answers to submit with no bespoke test-time harness whatsoever" – but were the answers themselves developed with the assistance of tools?
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Gemini Achieves Gold in Programming Contest: Tool Usage Clarification Needed
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The Gemini post mentions tools in the context of training the model itself, but doesn't clarify tools were used by the model at inference time during the competition https://
deepmind.google/discover/blog/
gemini-achieves-gold-level-performance-at-the-international-collegiate-programming-contest-world-finals/
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OpenAI Google DeepMind ICPC models code execution tools clarification
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Anyone know if there's a solid answer from OpenAI or Google DeepMind yet on whether the models they used in their ICPC programming competition wins had access to tools like the ability to run generated code through a compiler?
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Meta Explores Google AI Partnership for Enhanced Ad Targeting
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Meta Eyes Google AI for Ads: Google's valuation is going to skyrocket Meta is exploring talks with Google about using Gemini and Gemma AI models to boost its ad targeting, after setbacks with its own AI efforts. While still early, the move shows Meta’s willingness to lean on
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Vibe Coding: Building Complete Apps with Single Prompts
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Vibe coding is evolving fast. With a single prompt, you can:
— Abacus.AI (@abacusai) 26 septembre 2025
•Design a frontend
•Set up user login & permissions
•Build an editor
•Spin up and connect a database
You can’t replace real developers, but you can build a simple, usable app for collaboration, tracking, and… pic.twitter.com/asQcWETD3iVibe coding is evolving fast. With a single prompt, you can:
•Design a frontend
•Set up user login & permissions
•Build an editor
•Spin up and connect a database You can’t replace real developers, but you can build a simple, usable app for collaboration, tracking, and -
Major AI Companies Must Prioritize Model Safety Standards
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“Generative AI models offered by major AI companies are used by tens of millions of people every day, and we should encourage them to make their models as safe as they possibly can,” said @StanfordHAI Policy Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn via @techpolicypress
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Constrained Decoding vs Out-of-Distribution: Grammar-Based Selection
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the hope is that “constrained distribution” is not quite the same as true OOD right like if i constrain decoding to valid json grammar, json is still within distribution, im just choosing a “top k” subject to my constraints