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New Models & releases Signal 16h ago

The OpenAI Hack Scrambles the AI Race

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Casey Newton John Herrman

“It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence...”

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John Herrman: It's fascinating that the arrival of actual AI cyber risks is turning a lot of AI folks against some of the specific safety arguments the industry was founded on nymag.com/intelligence...
John Herrman: I also think it's interesting — and generally good! — that, as capability improves, people are becoming less inclined to live in Anthropicoid awe of AI. If the curve is going to kill us, we're alre…
John Herrman: I don't quite disagree with Casey here, but I would like to leave space for the argument that being "obsessed with the definitions of terms" is necessary for attempting to think clearly about AI. I…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 19d ago
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AI development pace essay

In AI, Nothing Ever Happens. Wait, It’s Happening!

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Maxim Raginsky John Herrman Colin

“One can always count on @jwherrman.bsky.social to make good sense of what’s happening in and around AI:”

“The AI industry is prone to massive, frequent, and intensifying narrative mood swings. Part of this is typical of a boom. But I think it's also intrinsic to the tech itself nymag.com/intelligence...”

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John Herrman: The AI industry is prone to massive, frequent, and intensifying narrative mood swings. Part of this is typical of a boom. But I think it's also intrinsic to the tech itself nymag.com/intelligence...
John Herrman: The constant, direct experience of enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment with AI — including at the highest levels of the industry — helps explain a lot about the last few years, and what…
John Herrman: this is basically unhelpful as a whole (of course you/we want to maintain control over perceptions of tech). but for certain actors, in particular positions, being maximally open to technological e…
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Established Models & releases Development 19d ago
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John Herrman: The declawing of OpenClaw

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John Herrman Paul Ford

“Chatted with @ftrain.bsky.social and Rich Ziade about my thwarted and slightly pathetic attempts to get something out of OpenClaw, the AI assistant that we are all definitely still talking about a few months later aboard.com/podcast/john...”

4 experts discussed this · 5 posts
John Herrman: Chatted with @ftrain.bsky.social and Rich Ziade about my thwarted and slightly pathetic attempts to get something out of OpenClaw, the AI assistant that we are all definitely still talking about a …
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4 experts · 7 posts · 18d ago
Christian Wolf David Picard John Herrman Colin
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Christian Wolf: To me this is not new and not surprising: (Applied) ML always had a very strong experimental component and finding out what trained models can do is akin to studying biological systems. This has on…
David Picard: To me this is not new and not surprising: (Applied) ML always had a very strong experimental component and finding out what trained models can do is akin to studying biological systems. This has on…
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