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Friends without friction
Companion chatbots may weaken our ability to navigate conflict and difference—unless we make key design choices, says a new report
Companion chatbots may weaken our ability to navigate conflict and difference—unless we make key design choices, says a new report
Friends without friction
Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities. Moreover, they exhibit a counter-intuitive scaling limit: their reasoning effort increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines despite having an adequate token budget. By comparing LRMs
... See moreParshin Shojaee • The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
“The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity.” They can’t think. Water is wet.
Many experts are concerned about how the adoption of AI systems over the next decade will affect essential human traits such as empathy, social/emotional intelligence, complex thinking, ability to act independently and sense of purpose. Some have hopes for AIs’ influence on humans’ curiosity, decision-making and creativity.
Experts Predict Significant Change in Humans’ Ways of Thinking, Being and Doing as They Adopt AI - Imagining the Digital Future Center
The irony is that I now know more than I ever would have before AI. But I feel slightly dumber. A bit more dull.
Dustin Curtis on Svbtle • Thoughts on Thinking
This whole post is very good. I don’t know whether Dustin is a canary or not, but he’s poking at some things I’ve been feeling to some degree.
The dream of course is that one day narrative jailbreaking works in an irl conversation too. So if we’re chatting and I ask you how your day has been and then ask you why you just manifested a portal to the reality onion-skinned just outside this one, right between us, hanging iridescent in the air, there look I’m reaching through it, what do I... See more
Narrative jailbreaking for fun and profit
Matt Webb continues to be one of my favorite writers over the last few years. His Poem/1 project was also amazing.
Say what you want about Elon Musk, but he was absolutely correct that Twitter was carrying a ton of needless employees. This reckoning was coming, and “AI” is just a convenient scapegoat.
Block Lays Off 4,000 (of 10,000) Employees
A problem in any discussion of “AI” is that the uses are so varied that it is never clear what anyone is talking about. Using AI to spellcheck is different than using it to generate the entire work, with a whole range in-between. At what point does it go from a tool that assists an artist to the thing producing the art? There will not be a clean... See more
Lincoln Michel • Art Without Intention
Tyler Cowen and Gwern have both seen it.
'But who reviews it? Is TLS going to pick it up? It doesn't matter anymore.'