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But the pleasant surprise: It has been enormously helpful in my attempts to resurrect and improve my rusty engineering knowledge, and level up my middle-aged forays into maker-ing things. The killer app for me is the ability to go deep in a domain for remedial learning. The most immediately helpful use-cases for me have been:
- Getting back into
Venkatesh Rao • You've Been Matrix-Multiplied
Subsequent research by Gerstgrasser and colleagues at Stanford and MIT (arXiv:2404.01413) provides important qualification: model collapse is not inevitable if synthetic data accumulates alongside real data rather than replacing it. The pathological scenario assumes complete substitution—thoughtful data curation can prevent the worst outcomes.
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
AI agents will outmaneuver salespeople by optimizing persuasion
intelligence has inadvertently become a ‘human success’-shaped cookie cutter we squish onto other species. Switching from baking to sports metaphors, we could say that everyone else – animals, amoebas, AIs and aliens – has to play the game on a field that we have laid out, according to rules that we have established and proven ourselves extremely... See more
Abigail Desmond & Michael Haslam • What Is Intelligent Life?
From the post, “Productivity, AI and pushback”.
Second, TA teaches us to never overlook the simplest solutions. There are a lot of complicated methods to automatically find augmentation policies, but the simplest method was so-far overlooked , even though it performs comparably or better
Devansh • TrivialAugment: The next evolution in Data Augmentation [Breakdowns]
Most AI researchers roll their eyes if you bring up the idea of consciousness. That’s for philosophers, not engineers, they say. Since no one has been able to define it, what’s the point in talking about it? I get this frustration. Few concepts are as elusive and seemingly circular as the idea of a subjective experience. Despite the definitional... See more
We must build AI for people; not to be a person
Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social)
bsky.app
The writing is getting better. The ideas are getting worse. There’s a new genre of essay that other academics reading this will instantly recognize, a clumsy collaboration between students and Silicon Valley. I call it glittering sludge .