Chris

Man, I'll believe it when I see it. I use these models for hours every day. They are impressive, but always foil the breathless marketing. On the plus side, labs keep doubling down on approaches my diss says won't work, as @liedra.net confidently predicted when I started. So I…

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’ theverge.com

The prospect of trying to defend a thesis mostly researched/argued by an LLM live for the viva sounds terrifying. Feels like higher ed is overdue for attacking the gap between how a program *should* change students & how it does in practice (even before LLMs), as this piece ar…

eytanadar.medium.com

If the world becomes just executives + AI, then the executives will not wind up the same people. This from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social is one of the few smart things I've seen about this. Lazy prompters with no domain expertise are unlikely to wind up on top, even if they're d…

robot class traitors backofmind.substack.com

Martin Puchner on writing and speech as (unnatural) technologies, plus some bullish thoughts on artistic creation with AI. Lots to disagree with, but this was thought-provoking in a way that booster narratives usually aren’t.

Literature fans should welcome AI as a fellow wordsmith | Aeon Essays aeon.co

Did a little experiment since Pangram is in the discourse this week. First & second grafs of my dissertation chapter (written 100% by me): judged 100% AI. The two grafs together (no changes): judged 67% AI. Then I had Deft rewrite the first graf -- completely LLM text, judged 54% AI. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Arendt on AI (via Margaret Canovan). Humans hold two contradictory beliefs: we can do anything and we’re animals that are completely determined by material circumstances. Separating knowledge from thought would make us “slaves” to machines.

What’s one book you think a conscious AI agent or alien visitor to Earth should read, and why? Could be something profound, funny, weird. Any reason is the right reason.

Pangram experiment part two. I forgot to click "More Human" on Deft AI Writing's interface. A completely LLM-written paragraph comes up 100% human-written in Pangram if I use that Deft feature. It sounds clunky to my ear, and is definitely not my voice.

I'm trying to get my running Claude Code instance to check whether the repo is clean so I can have GPT-5.6 take a run at it. And Anthropic was limiting requests to Claude. Clever.