Six Lines

After World War 1, a horrific, antisemitic myth was used in Germany to justify many of the arguments that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used to rise to power.

Helen Toner’s latest post is also the latest in a long line of posts to realize that the terminology we’re using to describe how LLM-based technologies work is profoundly broken: If you ask me, “AGI” stopped being a useful term as early as 2022.

Ben Thompson’s Stratechery article yesterday ended with a take on AI’s effect on security.

One of the main reasons that I stopped posting here regularly was that everything I wanted to write about was negative.

Last Friday, Ross Anderson wrote about the rise of China’s scientific research: If China finally eclipses the United States as the world’s preeminent scientific superpower, there won’t be an official announcement.

It’s pretty clear that we’ve reached the point where the one thing that AI is actually the best at is taking the blame for things that aren’t really its fault.

Google’s purported and now realized quantum computing breakthrough has dominated much of my news cycle this past week.

I love science and the search for truth.

I am old enough to remember when the popular Internet was new, and one of the most amazing things about it was the sense that it would bring information and education to the masses almost instantaneously.

I recently discovered that John Green from the Vlogbrothers was actually the same John Green who wrote Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, and a few other YA books that you’ve probably seen in stores.