6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (239+ words) hours ago Jensen Huang declared that the race to AGI is over. Unfortunately, Huang gave no evidence and...definitions, I would expect that if Astra really were AGI, it would be a quantum leap ahead of its competitors....improvement but…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (775+ words) been on a campaign trying to imply that Astra is AGI (or one model away from being so). Multiple reports,...Astra exclusively, I can say that I don’t feel the AGI”, in another he wrote this: AI forecaster Peter...scientist…...

2+ week, 6+ day 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…...

3+ day, 20+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (204+ words) The Information just broke the scoop that OpenAI is playing around with a new technique, in which models will reveal less of their “thinking”, making them harder to monitor. The new techniques they are exploring may make such monitoring difficult…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (259+ words) Anthropic’s boosters are rushing to celebrate their ARR. As they do, be mindful that the acronym ARR can actually mean two rather different things, Annual Recurring Revenue or Annualized Run Rate. (And 65 other things, less immediately relevant.) You might think…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (354+ words) Marcus on AI | Substack Breaking: U.S. young adults are now more concerned about AI than enthusiastic Brief update to last’s week’s note re: the growing backlash. You can read more here. This may go down in history as one of the…...

2+ week, 4+ 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…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (243+ words) Excellent new essay by Bill Gates, echoing many of the themes I have been writing about here and in my 2024 book Taming Silicon Valley: The critical, lasting importance of the decisions we make now. The risks that AI creates, around…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1030+ words) The popular podcaster Dwarkesh Patel wrote something completely viral about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, which purports to tell the whole story in plain English: It’s well-written and compelling, and it reminds me of something Douglas Hofstadter once wrote about…...