Is AI ruining jobs searches? Is it ruining the careers of young programmers? Kelsey and I discussed.| Understanding AI
It's a brutal time to be a recent computer science graduate.| www.understandingai.org
I took a careful look at Waymo’s latest crash data.| www.understandingai.org
Maybe it's a bit of both.| Understanding AI
Robotaxis could become ubiquitous in red states and illegal in blue states.| www.understandingai.org
Techniques we use with human agents should work just fine.| Understanding AI
The president wants to help American AI companies compete with their Chinese rivals.| Understanding AI
OpenAI's latest computer-use agent still isn't reliable enough for important tasks.| www.understandingai.org
Windsurf's leadership went to Google, leaving most employees in a lurch.| www.understandingai.org
Tesla exceeded my expectations, but it still has a long road ahead.| www.understandingai.org
There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.| www.understandingai.org
OpenAI's Operator was the best model I tried. But that's not saying much.| www.understandingai.org
New ruling provides a blueprint for AI companies to stay on the right side of the law.| www.understandingai.org
Monday's event had a lot for developers to love—starting with price cuts.| www.understandingai.org
Anthropic's MCP could do for agents what TCP/IP did for networking.| www.understandingai.org
To create reliable agents, AI companies had to go beyond predicting the next token.| Understanding AI
I visited two startups working to bring driverless technology to long-haul trucking.| www.understandingai.org
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.| www.understandingai.org
A deep dive into the powerful tools that were made possible by Claude 3.5 Sonnet.| Understanding AI
OpenAI's o3 did best on my quirky homebrew problems, with Gemini 2.5 Pro a close second.| www.understandingai.org
I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.| www.understandingai.org
The world isn't a giant chess game.| www.understandingai.org
Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos that aren't even moving.| www.understandingai.org
Will Trump side with driverless trucking startups or the labor movement?| www.understandingai.org
"I would use this model professionally," an antitrust lawyer told me.| www.understandingai.org
Could test-time training give AI models this important capability?| www.understandingai.org
The technology is getting shockingly cheap and easy to use.| www.understandingai.org
Leading labs are reportedly struggling to improve LLM performance with scaling.| www.understandingai.org
Two Princeton computer scientists argue AI is unlikely to pose an existential risk.| www.understandingai.org
I talked to Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo.| www.understandingai.org
It's not easy to stump OpenAI's new o1 models.| www.understandingai.org
Leading labs have been delivering big price cuts—but only small performance gains.| www.understandingai.org
The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.| www.understandingai.org
Waymo says its cars cause injuries six times less often than human drivers.| www.understandingai.org
If you come at the king, you’d best not miss.| www.understandingai.org
"An AV company that isn't trustworthy has no business being on our roads," one expert told me.| www.understandingai.org
Productivity is up and real wages are down, but humans are still in the game.| www.understandingai.org
Want to really understand how large language models work? Here’s a gentle primer.| www.understandingai.org
Sam Altman's proposal to license foundation models isn't ready for prime time.| www.understandingai.org
GM’s Cruise aims to turn self-driving into a billion-dollar business.| www.understandingai.org
Singularism vs. physicalism: two very different ways of looking at AI risk.| www.understandingai.org
Software didn't eat the world and AI won't either.| www.understandingai.org