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The AI Compass

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Maria Antoniak Simon Willison Brian Merchant Scott McGrath Grace Nicole Hennig Dan Greene tante +7

“not wrong! bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

“Source code here: github.com/bambamramfan... - try the quiz here: bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

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Grace: Did anyone else get this?
David Picard: Patron saint: Gary Marcus? Ouch! 😬🫣
Tim Duffy: I do recall one question where I wanted there to be one more extreme answer past the final option
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principle benchmark human edition release

Principle benchmark — human edition

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“I'm not going to respond directly to the nay-sayers, but I wrote a benchmark to test reasoning My intention was to make it falsifiable, and see how the models did at extracting a structure-preserving compression then applying it (one example then the model …”

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Ryan Moulton: holy shit jacobian conjecture down with a hand checkable counterexample
David Marx: It being posted on twitter does not render it unreliable. It was posted by the account of a notable mathematician. It satisfies WP:RS. Fun fact: the primary citation for RMSprop is a powerpoint sli…
David Marx: I am obligated to defend this hill as a member of the few, the proud: the tweet-cited. bsky.app/profile/digt...
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9 experts · 46 posts · 18d ago
Emily M. Bender Alondra Nelson Maxim Raginsky M.J. Crockett Eryk Salvaggio SE Gyges Larry Hunter Jack Stilgoe
M.J. Crockett: Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how muc…
M.J. Crockett: Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simp…
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4 experts · 37 posts · 10d ago
Ted Underwood Arseny Khakhalin René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Ted Underwood: Anyone commenting on AI should be asked 1) Did you expect few-shot learning? 2) When chat came out, did you say "this will change syllabi"? 3) Did you predict agentic coding? If the answers are no,…
Ted Underwood: People are getting a pass on this because *most* of us missed these calls. But that's the wrong response. Actually, none of us deserve a pass. We all have burned fingers, and we all should have lea…
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5 experts · 15 posts · 19d ago
Eli Sennesh Dustin Moskovitz Pwnallthethings Luis Villa Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Eli Sennesh: we constantly rely on unreliable tools (some of them in meat suits and with hair) by adding compensating controls around their actions so the outputs are bounded and, while not deterministic, predi…
Pwnallthethings: tbf this was also true before. Everyone knows the confident BS artist MBAs and nepo-babies at the top of some orgs who have zero ideas of their own or value-creation, but wear a nice suit and say t…
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4 experts · 9 posts · 15d ago
Mark J. Nelson Sam Barrett, PhD brennan Singularity's Bounty e/cc
brennan: having a lot of conversations lately with various friends where AI people are complaining about their non-AI coworkers who are doing things slower and worse than could be done e.g. 20 minute tasks …
Mark J. Nelson: I have a friend in a totally normal office job like this, increasingly annoyed that people are doing repetitive tasks in Excel completely manually & missing a row, manually typing in data from rece…
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3 experts · 6 posts · 1d ago
Ryan Moulton Arseny Khakhalin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Ryan Moulton: AI denial does function well as a low stakes tracer dye for how much groupthink is in a community. If you see a high frequency of afflicted people, that community hasn't ingested any info other tha…
Ryan Moulton: If they're that blinkered about what their computer can do, imagine how they react about anything that actually has real emotional stakes for them.
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