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The Who's Who of AI

What credible people across AI noticed, why it matters, and where the field is converging or disagreeing.

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New Agents & robotics Signal 8h ago

Could A.I. Do Your Job? We Put Agents to the Test.

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“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? …”

New AI field signal Signal 8h ago

How to harness AI

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“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…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
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Guardian AI consciousness essay

Could AI be conscious?

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“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.”

Developing Culture, work & education Analysis 2d ago
Claude for Teachers Anthropic essay

Why is Claude for Teachers?

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“"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."”

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3 experts · 14 posts · 17h ago
Colin: It seems like there are a number of discoveries, like solutions to quasi-famous (but not too famous) open problems in math and 0day security vulnerabilities, that are low-hanging fruit in the sense…
Colin: I used to be skeptical of the billion-phds-in-a-data-center idea, and I still am, on the grounds that it’s not really a billion phds, it’s a billion identical copies of the same phd, who’s going to…
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