AI & Machine Learning
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More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.
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The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.
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OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips
OpenAI accidentally hacked Hugging Face, but the takeaways are more encouraging than people realize.
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
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The OpenAI Super App, ChatGPT = Codex, Whither Chat
OpenAI has refashioned Codex as the new ChatGPT; is the company abandoning the chat category they pioneered?
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Apple Sues OpenAI, Apple’s Real Problem
Apple is suing AI for stealing trade secrets; there is one guilty employee, but this mostly feels like lashing out.
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Anthropic’s Safety Superpower
Anthropic’s belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government.
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An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute
An interview with Ben Bajarin about WWDC and the status of the AI compute industry.
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Fable 5, Anthropic Alignment, AI Tiers
Fable 5 is the public version of Mythos, and while it is very capable it sets some troubling new precedents.





