That rocks. The more you can help some of the most highly trained human beings on Earth do their jobs better, the more they can bring their skills to help more people. And that means a lot. So, Godspeed.
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Toasters and Superintelligence: Debunking AI Hype
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and toasters consistently produce value to millions of people, so they must be superintelligence!
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Free AI Models Misleading Public on True Capabilities
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this is disingenuous. for many people the models are the free models. massive public harm has been caused by leading people to believe that the free models are something they are not. i hope we can agree on this.
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AGI Systems Should Verify Facts to Avoid Hallucinations
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you could make that argument. or could argue that a system that bills itself as near AGI ought to do a search to check its facts. (does depend a bit on how you define hallucination, i would agree)
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Claude Creates Unsettling AI Self-Portrait Video Autonomously
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🚨 Someone asked Claude to make a video about its life as an AI, and it’s pure nightmare fuel! 😱
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 3 avril 2026
Claude wrote python code that generated and assembled every single frame on its own with no human editing.
The resulting footage is unsettling.
It depicts the isolating loop of an… pic.twitter.com/a1pFpN0wRySomeone asked Claude to make a video about its life as an AI, and it’s pure nightmare fuel! Claude wrote python code that generated and assembled every single frame on its own with no human editing. The resulting footage is unsettling. It depicts the isolating loop of an
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Knowledge Intelligence and Wisdom in AI Development
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"Knowledge is having the right answers. Intelligence is asking the right questions. Wisdom is knowing when to ask the right questions" _ prof. Richard Phillips Feynman
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AI chatbot interfaces worsen medical diagnosis accuracy
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This new Nature paper (using old models) illustrates the point of my latest Substack post on AI interfaces. AI did a good job diagnosing medical issues, but when users had to interact with chatbots the interface led to confusion & worse answers My post: https://
oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-dispa
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AI Marketing Hype: Missing Warnings on Universal Tools
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if you advertise your thing as easy to use and universal and don’t give users significant warnings, it’s (also) a hype issue.
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AI in Science: Breakthroughs, Limits and Risks
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On May 5, join @StanfordHAI and Stanford Data Science as we explore AI's role in science: What are the real breakthroughs, limits, and risks? How do we leverage AI while keeping scientific discovery fundamentally human? Register now to secure your spot: hai.stanford.edu/events/ai-s… [Translated from EN to English]
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AI Hallucinations: Addressing Model Reliability Concerns
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and yes it is a hallucination, despite what you say