Regular announcements: did you know you can hire me for life coaching and general consulting? You can also buy my novella Her Voice Is A Backwards Record wherever fine books are sold (except Google Books).| thingofthings.substack.com
Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.| The Atlantic
A class action over pirated books exposes the 'responsible' AI company to penalties that could bankrupt it — and reshape the entire industry| www.obsolete.pub
[Crossposted on LessWrong] Throughout history, technological and scientific advances have had both good and ill effects, but their overall impact has been overwhelmingly positive. Thanks to scienti…| Windows On Theory
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf is pouring cold water on hopes that current AI systems could revolutionize scientific progress.| Fortune
Welcome back! Come one, come all, friends, foes, fart connoisseurs, all are welcome here at Camel Central.| sourcegraph.com
Scaling reinforcement learning, tracing circuits, and the path to fully autonomous agents| www.dwarkesh.com
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In the decade that I have been working on AI, I’ve watched it grow from a tiny academic field to arguably the most important economic and geopolitical issue in the world. In all that time, perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned is this: the progress of the underlying technology is inexorable, driven by forces too powerful to stop, but the way in which it happens—the order in which things are built, the applications we choose, and the details of how it is rolled out to society...| www.darioamodei.com
(The Epoch Times)—On April 14, a local government administrator in the United States sent my relative a letter that she suspected of including artificial intelligence (AI) content. Sure enough, an AI detector found 83 percent generated by AI GPT. She said it was the best letter she had ever received from a politician—and she writes […]| based underground
Robin Sloan's lab notebook, about media and technology, creative computing, AI aesthetics, & more.| Robin Sloan
