Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks

The Postman Drop: Introducing the AI Agent Builder
The AI world moves fast, and we’re now entering the era of AI agents. These sophisticated AI systems integrate reasoning and memory, enabling them to autonomously interact with tools, make decisions, execute tasks, and deliver real-time results. AI agents will play an increasingly central role in how organizations operate, which Abhinav Asthana, our co-founder and CEO, discussed in a recent blog post. But systems this powerful are extremely challenging to build—especially without a unified solut...

What we can’t measure about AI – yet | Aeon Essays
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand

Bridging the gap: inequalities that divide those who can and cannot create sustainable outcomes with AI
The widespread use of AI technologies impacts individuals, organisations, and societies in ways that warrant more comprehensive investigation. Inequalities in benefiting from AI advancements may le...

Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security License Requirements
Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security License Requirements Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now broadly capable, which can produce both benefits and dangers. AI will hasten the design and proliferation of bioweapons, cyberweapons, nuclear weapons, progressively more general intelligence,...
Human scientists trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks
State-of-the-industry report finds that, despite the limitations of artificial-intelligence systems, researchers have embraced them.

AI is not a tool.
"Like all tools, it has its pros and cons. It brings about radical changes, but we'll adapt." This cliché was true for previous technologies. But it isn’t necessarily true for AI. A tool extends the human body or percept...

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…

Thick practices for AI tools
This essay is the result of thoughts developed during the PIBBSS fellowship this summer. Thanks to Dusan and Maris for feedback on a draft of this essay. Thanks to Sahil and Niki for discussions that influenced the ideas of this essay. 1. Intro What if we could build AI tools...

AI is not superhuman
What metaphor should drive the field of AI research?


Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | jola.dev
Why and How to Run Local Models in Zed

Running local models is good now

Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research

Experimental Evidence on the Learning Impact of Generative AI
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X

Large language models are not the problem

AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Our Unconscious
Malleable Software (by Boris) — Semble
darkshapes
AI* perception/usage (by あ) — Semble
All intelligence is collective intelligence (by Ronen Tamari) — Semble

A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI

Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
The education of a computer

Secret History of Silicon Valley
Border Wars : The Science and Politics of Artificial Intelligence

Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test

AI and the techno-utopian path not taken
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Agency and Agents
ГАЛЬВАНИЗАЦИЯ АВТОРА, ИЛИ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТ С НЕЙРОННОЙ ПОЭЗИЕЙ. Борис Орехов. «Новый мир» №6, 2018

Personal Online RL | 🌱 | Offprint
Approaching an unknown communication system by latent space exploration and causal inference | Royal Society Open Science | The Royal Society

Surya Narreddi

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