Soft Coded
Danielle McCluneField notes from the uncanny valley
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Accidental Literature
I’ve been alerted to a fair share of strange agentic behavior in my day. People like to send me the weirdo things their AIs do and say, and I like to read them. And despite my position that the world is not ending by AI’s hand, I will admit...
Rapturous
To catch you up, Jacob Coxon quit his job at Anthropic because he thinks artificial intelligence might kill everyone. There are several things to deconstruct here.
Coxon is 27, has spent the past three years working on pretraining researc...
Uselessness
I watched Brick last night for the first time in years. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a deeply strange 2005 movie that takes the language of a hardboiled detective novel and drops it into a Southern California high school. Joseph Gordon-Levi...
Strap In
I think my work, and yours, is about to become much more agentic. I’ve anticipated this since The Claw Moment, and even then was ambivalent about it. To be sure, it’s fun and interesting to watch alien beings speak to each other, develop th...
Stamina
When I’m feeling a certain way about things, I read books. I read a lot of books so I’m often feeling a certain way about things. I’m not totally sure what this is about. Perhaps I’m searching, all the time, for the answer to an unstated qu...
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