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Multiple readings Our position on open-weights models Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher Building & implementation · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings IN THE WEIGHTS Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Analysis 18h ago
⚡ 1 h early
Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Kellogg
“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim James MacGlashan Dare Obasanjo Larry Hunter Fran Litterio +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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Established Agents & robotics Development 11d ago
⚡ 19 h early
Rural NY school humanoid robot teacher

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Julie Carpenter, PhD
“As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up…” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Taylor Lorenz Hypervisible Luke Stark sorelle Dare Obasanjo Charles Logan Meredith Rose +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up…”

Opportunity & adoption

1 expert

New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”

4 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
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Primary source nysfocus.com ↗
Established AI research Resource 12d ago
⚡ 31 h early
In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Lynn Cherny, Social Media Lab
“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Primary source intheweights.com ↗
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2 experts · 4 posts · 14d ago
Dare Obasanjo Mary Branscombe
Matches Research & technical analysis
“GPUs are for training; inferencing might be CPUs with the right instructions - or they might be custom AI accelerators like MAIA or the thing Arm rigged up for Facebook after its internal accelerat…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Dare Obasanjo: The AI bubble looks a lot like the dotcom bubble. • It’s clear the technology will change everything. • Massive adoption is a matter of when not if. • A lot of companies are spending a lot of money…
Dare Obasanjo: In fact, there may be a first mover disadvantage.
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