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Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden
AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions
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Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame
GPT-5 may not be here, but just wait til you see the new round of hype
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Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong
In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence under Biden, entitled, The Government knows A.G.I.
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Is Elon Musk “dumb”?
Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
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Hinton vs Musk
Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
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Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose
His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
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OpenAI, in deep trouble
Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
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February 2025

Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger
Pure scaling in shambles
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GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5
Investors should be worried
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Elon Musk's inability to listen to others is torching almost everything he touches
Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was taking a flamethrower to his own reputation.
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The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny
This post isn’t about AI; it’s about our future
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GenAI in two words: ”Success Theater”
Success Theater
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