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Misplaced panic over AI progress

1. Take the mostly horizontal part (yellow dots, actually attested); 2. Infer vertical.

A couple days ago METR, a think tank that evaluates AI, dropped its latest graph, and the Twitterverse quickly became overwhelmed with panic, includin...

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Agents and ROI

Remember that MIT study that showed that the ROI for generative AI wasn’t really there for most businesses? Or any of the six or seven studies from other teams that followed, showing basically the same?

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The situation for agents thus...

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Breaking news: “they hadn’t figured out how OpenAI would pay for it”

Breaking news from The Information:

Remember this chart? Broadcome wasn’t even shown.

It’s already wildly out of date (e.g. the Anthropic-XAI deal from yesterday isn’t there and indeed Anthropic isn’t even shown; a bunch of Amazon and Alp...

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What matters (or should matter), at the Musk-OpenAI trial

I don’t know what’s going to happen; it’s a jury trial. And it’s very far from over.

One view is that for all the drama nothing much has happened so far. A few minutes ago Jeremy Kahn from Fortune represented that view in his newsletter:...

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Breaking: Autonomous Agents are a Shitshow

Remember my essay back in August with Nathan Hamiel LLM + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare?

We were not wrong.

A new study from researchers from Stanford, MIT CSAIL, Carnegie Mellon, ITU Copenhagen, and NVIDIA and Elloe AI Labs, examini...

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    Scientist, author and entrepreneur, known as a leading voice in AI. Six books including The Algebraic Mind, Rebooting AI, and Taming Silicon Valley; NYU Professor Emeritus.

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