"Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
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Melanie Mitchell
Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, AI and cognitive science
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Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
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Opinion | Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop nytimes.com
Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake interconnects.ai
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the Heart of LLMs yalereview.org
oecs.mit.edu
arxiv.org
Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916? normaltech.ai
Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916? normaltech.ai
But Dumbo could already fly? theintrinsicperspective.com
But Dumbo could already fly? theintrinsicperspective.com
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I agree with this essay: open source, for general software and for AI, has been and will be a net win for society. Kudos to @natolambert.bsky.social for being such an eloquent advocate. www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...
It's always a treat to read Ted Chiang's thoughts on AI. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
I wrote a piece for the Yale Review on AI and "jagged intelligence". (Note: headline was not written by me.) yalereview.org/article/mela...
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- AI systems excel on some tasks while failing surprisingly on similar ones, a pattern Mitchell calls 'jagged intelligence.'
- Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder, is quoted saying LLMs 'generalize dramatically worse than people' in a way that is 'very fundamental.'
- Mitchell says AI researchers, herself included, are still struggling to design effective evaluation methods for LLMs' uneven capabilities.
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Also, Shannon's original proposals for language modeling? And even earlier, Markov chains? In case it's helpful, I wrote a bit about the history here: oecs.mit.edu/pub/zp5n8ivs...
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.02478
Another excellent post (from @sayash.bsky.social and @randomwalker.bsky.social) on questions to ask about announcements of AI capabilities. I highly recommend their newsletter! www.normaltech.ai/p/did-google...
Another excellent post (from @sayash.bsky.social and @randomwalker.bsky.social) on questions to ask about announcements of AI capabilities. I highly recommend their newsletter! www.normaltech.ai/p/did-google...
I'm not sure what to think about the new AI math results, but I found this perspective by Erik Hoel interesting: www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/dumbo-coul...
I'm not sure what to think about the new AI math results, but I found this perspective by Erik Hoel interesting: www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/dumbo-coul...
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Large language models represent a shift from rigid statistical frequency tables to neural networks that learn the probability distributions of… Large Language Models by Melanie Mitchell https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2bb20e3c #CognitiveScience
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The ultimate tldr on the OpenAI "rogue model" hacking incident 😅 (h/t @linege1 on X) But it would be useful to know the prompts OpenAI gave to the model....
Why is Google AI Overview still so incredibly bad??
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