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Published: June 16, 2025 22:28

This kind of thing has been seen in every big commercial model, it seems. Caveat Emptor. Note: Contrary to what it says, Gemini does not have "intentions" in the humanlike sense of the word. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 16, 2025 13:15

New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in…

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Published: June 14, 2025 23:19

LLM product placement and search optimization is here and it's as dystopian as you expected.

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Published: June 13, 2025 23:27

Got distracted today & did a little experiment on ChatGPT 4o. I told it I had a question about AI & asked it to suggest six experts to contact. In one condition, I put "tough-minded and rigorous" before "experts". In the other condition, I put…

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Published: June 13, 2025 14:52

Another "holy sh*t" article about AI-induced psychosis. "I’m not crazy,” she said. “I’m literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication." …

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Published: June 11, 2025 21:30

Breaking: Entire US public health infrastructure [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2025 21:02

www.nokings.org https://www.nokings.org/

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Published: June 10, 2025 16:31

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Published: June 9, 2025 22:53

Recent reasoning paper from Apple is an interesting study, & getting much attention (e.g., article below), but.... (1/2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-study-collapse…

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Published: June 8, 2025 20:17

SFO has a nice collection of AI books @adambecker.bsky.social @anilananth.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social‬ @randomwalker.bsky.social‬

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Published: June 8, 2025 18:19

My husband’s cell was getting calls from people thinking they were phoning a certain city’s police number. He was puzzled—his number doesn’t appear on any web page. Then he learned that if you Google “[city name] non-emergency police”, the AI overview…

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Published: June 4, 2025 03:02

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina?r=i691&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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Published: May 30, 2025 20:31

Seems like a good time to re-up @katecrawford.bsky.social‬'s brilliant coining: "hallucitations". [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 30, 2025 20:15

Tired: "BS" Wired: "Vibe citing" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/well/maha-report-citations.html

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Published: May 29, 2025 23:37

Alison Gopnik, telling it like it is, at Johns Hopkins.

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Published: May 22, 2025 10:08

👀 arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775 https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775

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Published: May 20, 2025 15:28

👀 https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/

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Published: May 19, 2025 18:36

I reviewed "These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means" by Chris Summerfield. https://melaniemitchell.me/EssaysContent/TLS2025.pdf

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Published: May 18, 2025 13:58

Important thread about AI legislation [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 10, 2025 13:45

This has happened in AI. We've been through a lot of epistemic iteration on the notion of "intelligence". Some call it "moving the goal posts". Others call it "science". [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 9, 2025 17:44

⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/tech-oligarchs-musk

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Published: May 9, 2025 16:21

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Published: May 8, 2025 19:37

Today I learned that the composer David Cope has died. He was the inventor of "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" (EMI), & a visionary pioneer in computer-generated music. I wrote about his work in my 2019 AI book -- I posted some excerpts from it in my…

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Published: May 7, 2025 14:07

Interesting work! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 6, 2025 22:48

I'm looking forward to this event next week in Amsterdam! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: May 2, 2025 16:57

Karpathy: We have reached "jagged Intelligence" Mollick: We have reached "jagged AGI" Next up: "jagged consciousness"? https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-jagged-agi-o3-gemini-25-and-everything

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Published: May 2, 2025 15:04

NSF's new 15% indirect rate. This will severely hurt science in the public sphere. How is this legal? Doesn't Congress have vote on this? https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/indirect-cost-rate

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Published: May 1, 2025 23:43

Santa Fe shows up for #MayDayStrong

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Published: May 1, 2025 23:07

#MayDayStrong

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Published: May 1, 2025 02:43

Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field: https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/

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Published: April 23, 2025 21:35

👀 wapo.st/42NDuA1 https://wapo.st/42NDuA1

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Published: April 23, 2025 19:45

Highly recommended! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 22, 2025 13:49

Harvard is Dancing Guy. Who is the first follower? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ