1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (553+ words) Dario Amodei seems to think so. Or at least Axios thinks he thinks so, based on Amodei’s new essay. We think that’s (a) a vague claim, and (b) pretty implausible as best we can understand it. But in fairness also…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1148+ words) It has become clear by now that the frontier labs are knowingly and by their own admission doing something irreversible and incredibly dangerous without public consent. They are already causing harm, and things could conceivably get much worse. They have…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (487+ words) Back in fall of 2024, Terence Tao, perhaps the most respected living mathematician, was eager to learn about what AI could and could not do. Although he was skeptical of the then recently-released o1, he was optimistic about a future in which…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (239+ words) A couple hours ago Jensen Huang declared that the race to AGI is over. Unfortunately, Huang gave no evidence and no definitions, which feels to me like an effort at a takeover of a scientific question by corporate fiat. I…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (137+ words) A lot of people (not me) are bothered by the just-reported fact that Anthropic has sometimes asked prospective employees whether they are comfortable with the possibility that the price of the company stock could potentially crash to zero. But whatever…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (53+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack BREAKING: More bad news for the frontier AI companies Cheaper tools are thriving. What does this mean for the upcoming IPOs? FT just broke this: This is bad news. But wait, there’s more. Keep reading with…...