3+ day, 15+ 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…...

4+ day, 8+ 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…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (775+ words) The story that broke this morning—still waiting for OpenAI’s full response—blew my mind. And yet also left me unsurprised. Here are nine things I learned just in the last week: The widely discussed and worrisome Hugging Face incident…...

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…...

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…...

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, 5+ day ago   (152+ words) “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” “What brought it on?” “Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had creditors, too. Probably had more creditors than…...

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+ week, 1+ day ago   (335+ words) Part I: costs and how much revenue you would need to justify those costs. Estimate #1 comes from Peter Berezin, Chief Economist at BCA Research. (You can read his full post, with some graphs and a link to a longer report, here.)…...

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…...