Artificial Intelligence

Why agents take unexpected routes

Artificial Intelligence / New York Times, rogue, training

For the New York Times, Raj Saha and Blacki Migliozzi used mazes to…
Cutting the cost of tokens

Artificial Intelligence / Anthropic, cost, Max Woolf, OpenAI

On a per token basis, the cost of using LLMs from Anthropic and…
What happens to math going forward

Artificial Intelligence / math, New York Times, OpenAI, Terence Tao

Terence Tao has become the unofficial spokesperson for the future of mathematics. Elisabeth…
When AI comes for purpose

Artificial Intelligence / math, New York Times, purpose, Steven Strogatz

Mathematician and Cornell professor Steven Strogatz was a guest on NYT’s Daily podcast…
Learning is the thing

Artificial Intelligence / Daniel Willingham, education, students

Daniel Willingham, a professor at the University of Virginia, argues that students should…
Jagged intelligence demonstrated with a puzzle

Artificial Intelligence / Aatish Bhatia, puzzle, training

Large language models are heavily dependent on training data to determine what comes…
Ideas and thought in the detours

Artificial Intelligence / Giorgia Lupi, New York Times, process

For NYT Opinion, Giorgia Lupi argues that the best ideas come from getting…
Annoying agents that ruin the internet

Artificial Intelligence / 404 Media, annoying, bot, email

For 404 Media, Jason Koebler collated the dumb emails they receive from dumb…
What it’s like when a data center moves in

Artificial Intelligence / data center, reality, Verge

For the Verge, Lauren Feiner visited Loudoun County, Virginia, which used to be…
Terence Tao on the paradox of solving mathematical problems

Artificial Intelligence / Big Think, math, paradox, Terence Tao

Mathematician Terence Tao, a 2006 Fields Medal winner and professor at UCLA, discusses…
A third of new webpages written with AI

Artificial Intelligence / Internet, Pew Research, writing

It is trivial to generate bodies of text on infinite topics, so of…
Amazon shutting down Mechanical Turk

Artificial Intelligence / Amazon, CNBC, Mechanical Turk, shutdown

Annie Palmer for CNBC:
“We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and…
Google buys Spirit Airlines data in bankruptcy sale

Artificial Intelligence / Gizmodo, Google, Spirit Airlines, training

Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data.…
Trillions of dollars in AI spending not in the balance sheet yet

Artificial Intelligence / spending, technology, Wall Street Journal

For the Wall Street Journal, Peter Rudegeair and Peter Santilli report on the…
Amazon buying rare books in bulk for training

Artificial Intelligence / 404 Media, Amazon, tracking, training

Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI…
OpenAI accidentally makes attack bots

Artificial Intelligence / attack, bot, OpenAI

Multiple bots exploited a vulnerability in OpenAI’s security system to gain internet access.…
Google rolls back its fake satellite image machine

Artificial Intelligence / fake, Google, misinformation, NPR, satellite imagery

Last week, Google released a feature for Google Earth that let anyone use…
Generated book slop

Artificial Intelligence / biography, Kashmir Hill, New York Times

Upon discovery of a generated biography on Amazon about her, NYT journalist Kashmir…
George Lucas on the horse and buggy

Artificial Intelligence / George Lucas, movies, Rabbit's Foot

For A Rabbit’s Foot, Andy Hazel interviewed Star Wars creator George Lucas, mostly…
Map of AI archetypes

Artificial Intelligence / archetypes, quiz

AI Compass is a quiz of thirty questions that asks for your opinion…

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