Understanding AI
Timothy B. Lee, James Grimmelmann, Steve Newman, Abi Olvera, Charlie Guo, Justin Curl, Daniel Abreu Marques, Florian Brand, Sophia Tung, Kai Williams, Sage BergersonExploring how AI works and how it's changing our world.
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Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving car
Tensor let me sit in their driverless car. It might go on sale in the US next year.
Last month I got to check out a self-driving car unlike any I’d seen before. The roof had a Waymo-like rack of sensors. Inside, the doors had small video s...
A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI
One estimate suggests that OpenAI has about as much compute as the entire Chinese AI industry.
When I went to the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese AI company Moonshot AI, the first thing I saw was a piano with a vinyl copy of the Pink F...
I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”
In February, my colleague Kai Williams pointed out that LLMs have an uncanny ability to recognize authors based on their unpublished prose. In recent weeks, journalists like Megan McArdle and Kelsey Piper have confirmed this.
I decided to...
Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos
Last October, Waymo had begun testing its freeway capability, but the company had not yet rolled it out to all vehicles. On a rainy Saturday morning, a routing error caused a Waymo vehicle not qualified for freeway operation to drive onto U...
Meta is back in the LLM game after a year-long break
What Muse Spark tells us about Meta’s new AI strategy.
In the latest episode of the AI Summer podcast, Tim and Kai discuss Claude Mythos Preview with Sayash Kapoor, a computer scientist at Princeton.
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I write the newsletter Understanding AI. Previously I was a reporter at Ars Technica, Vox, and the Washington Post. https://twitter.com/binarybits
Professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech.
Co-founder of Writely (aka Google Docs) and 7 other startups. Now at the Golden Gate Institute for AI, working to bring AI’s toughest questions into focus.
Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing. Ex-diplomat. I lead DC Abundance. Golden Gate Institute Research Director. Emergent Ventures grantee. Views my own.
Writing at the intersection of software engineering and AI. Developer Experience Engineer at OpenAI. All opinions are my own.
AI researcher turned lawyer trying to make AI go well. Prev: Harvard Law, Schwarzman Scholar, Microsoft Research, Princeton CS
I'm Daniel, and I work in strategy and market intelligence for autonomous driving. As a student of the market, I analyze market developments, monitor players, and try to connect the dots.
Research @ Prime Intellect | https://florianbrand.com/ | Opinions my own.
Content creator at large
I'm a reporter at Understanding AI, supported through the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. Previously, I did AI safety research through the MATS program. I graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in math and music.
Freelance writer in San Francisco.
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