The Who's Who of AI

“How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/t…”

“Starts with asking Claude if it’s a “moral patient” and goes downhill from there.”

“This NYT visual does a nice job showing both the power and the extreme frailty of "AI agents" in handling relatively mundane real-world work tasks. Many assume there'll be continued leaps in performance but what if we're approaching the top of the S-curve? …”

“Here are two stories worth reading together. In the first one, a Brown University professor found that most of his students used AI on a take-home exam. This is a story about AI use that fits the framework of academic honesty we had before AI: students just…”

“I'm not sure what you're referencing with "5 9's"?? But regardless, we don't craft the harnesses, the companies making the AI models do -- you might think of it as the meta-cognitive programming of these tools. More here if you're curious: buildcognitiveres…”

“I don’t think that’s true on either count, if we are going to hew to the most classic model of “intelligence” from cognitive science. arxiv.org/pdf/1911.01547”

“"To wall off 'contemporary political issues' from our recent history is to make a choice, and here, Anthropic’s algorithm, programmed by Anthropic’s software engineers, is making it very clear that teachers should not connect the past to the present. Shudder."”

“Howard Gardner proposed several decades ago that there are “multiple intelligences.” There has been no research program built around this. And it’s odd to cite Gopnik here as she’s been quite explicit about AI not being intelligent! open.substack.com/pub/bu…”