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On hype, and the unbearable banality of ChatGPT’s poetry
A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is “indistinguishable” from William Shakespeare.
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An AI rumor you won’t want to miss
Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
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CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns
Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
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8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
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October 2024

AI influencer hype gone wild
Reality is quite the opposite
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An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts
The parade of made-up numbers never stops
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“End of an Era”: OpenAI’s AGI Readiness Chief Resigns and Team is Disbanded
Miles Brundage was one of the last of the AI safety old guard at OpenAI. He thinks the world is not ready for powerful AI.
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Is OpenAI more like WeWork or Theranos?
A tale of two analogies
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When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese — and that’s going to cause huge problems
Two new examples that are quite disconcerting
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LLMs don’t do formal reasoning - and that is a HUGE problem
Important new study from Apple
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Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward
As you have surely read by now, not one but two Nobel Prizes went to AI this week.
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Eric Schmidt’s Risky Bet on AI and Climate Change
Is AI so valuable to society that we should place this bet?
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