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Professor at Northwestern CS, AI and visualization
After two days with Claude Fable 5 the best way I can describe it is "relentlessly proactive" - here's an example where I dropped in a screenshot of a bug and it span up custom CORS Python servers and used pyobjc-framework-Quartz to capture screenshots simonwillison.net/2026/J…
Thoughts on metascientific consequences of AI-generated slides & ideas diluting the impression that speakers are commited to what they present. Science runs on personal attachment more than we admit. If it were a cake mix, how wouldn we add back an egg? statmodeling.stat.colum…
Some thoughts on the blog today on "humans are unreliable narrators too" as a common defense of AI mental-state language, and what I think it misses about the nature of reasoning or thinking or belief or intention as we understand these terms statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/202…
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