against chat interfaces ✦ a brief history of artificial intelligence ✦ and the (worthwhile) problem of other minds

When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us.

Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

Think of the Web as a digital territory with its own social contract. In 2014, Tim Berners-Lee called for a “Magna Carta for the Web” to restore the balance of power between individuals and institutions. This mirrors the original charter’s purpose: ensuring that those who occupy a territory have a meaningful stake in its governance. Web 3.0—the distributed, decentralized Web of tomorrow—is finally poised to change the Internet’s dynamic by returning ownership to data creators. This will change many things about what’s often described as the “CIA triad” of ...

Personal site of Mustafa Suleyman, AI pioneer and author.

We want to make Piccalilli’s position absolutely clear on LLMs and generative AI. It’s important for you, the reader, to understand our position.

I have had the Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia from June 27 open for some time now. I thought I wanted to sign it, but got stuck on the first paragraphs multiple times:

I didn’t plan to write this post. I was going to blog about Agent Experience, the new concept coined by my former boss, Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify (I think we are on great terms so I can write this haha). I opened up netlify.com to link it and too...

The downsides of generative AI are growing like wildfire

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

a free and opensource app that lets you gain an unfair advantage - sohzm/cheating-daddy

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken …

Expert analysis shows Anthropic’s attempts to skip chatbot praise and avoid copyrighted content.

Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude …

New evidence that confirms so much of what I have been saying

As Large Language Models improve, the tokens they predict form ever more complicated and nuanced outcomes. Rob Miles and Ryan Greenblatt discuss "Alignment F...

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...), and looking at the traffic logs makes me impressively angry. In the last 60 days, the diaspora* web assets received 11.3 million requests. That equals to 2.19 req/s - which honestly isn't that much. I mean, it's more than your average personal blog, but nothing that my infrastructure shouldn't be able to handle. However, here's what's grinding my fucking gears. Looking at the top user agent statistics, there are the leaders: 2.78 million requests - or 24.6% of all traffic - is coming from Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot). 1.69 million reuqests - 14.9% - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonb...

In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.

Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.

If I had wanted to write a column about presidential pardons, I’d find ChatGPT’s assistance a far better starting point than I’d have gotten through any general web search. But to quote Reagan: “Trust, but verify.”

Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

It’s fun to say that artificial intelligence is fake and sucks — but evidence is mounting that it’s real and dangerous

TL;DR Context Writing A 1996 Essay Again in 2023, This Time With Lots More Transistors ChatGPT 3 Gathering the Sources PrivateGPT Ollama (and Llama2:70b) Hallucinations What I Learned TL;DR I used …