Very clever. Reminds me of HyDE arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496
Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels
arxiv.org
Doug Turnbull
This pattern of asking a cheap LLM to generate hypothetical / fake classifications that we then later resolve to real ones is one of the dominant way I'm doing query understanding these days softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-…
Aug 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
Arvind Narayanan on Twitter / X
This week I had the honor of speaking to Princeton’s entire incoming undergraduate class to address their AI anxieties. I had three messages for them — good news, bad news, and a note of optimism. Here’s a condensed version.The good newsWe have enough evidence now to conclude…— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) August 27, 2026
Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X
Lots of us are hashing out new plagiarism/AI statements to share with our students. Here’s a draft of the last part of my very earnest one. pic.twitter.com/4Nqh7rZDcF— Jeff Melnick (@melnickjeffrey1) September 1, 2026
Analysis | Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.
There’s a new AI twist on a travel scam that has fooled people for years. Here’s what you need to know.
A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
Interesting footnote on math arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2608.16066v1
i called this phenomenon "the pachinkofication of intellectual labour" and this is very close to how i imagined it graphed: buttondown.com/dorian/archive/slop-machine-f…
Slop-Machine Future
buttondown.com
#BruceSterling
*Hmmm. This dynamic is quite similar to writing fiction with a pencil as opposed to a word processor
neat web design
Quit Google
AI-related: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
Collective Intelligence Research
Explorations into the idea that a group of humans is "more intelligent" than the sum of their "IQ" (i.e. "groups of individuals doing things collectively that seem intelligent")
css.graphics/pipes
Zippy the Pinhead
Objectionable
Flavor Lines — Rice
Aleks Sennwald Illustration
Weird Wide Web 🐑 (by Sebastian) — Semble
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
Google further buries search results under AI mode
How Chrome tracks you and how to limit it | Proton
Google Docs' Grammar Suggestions Suck Ass
Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
Sharing Notes about Collective Intelligence — Pop Junctions
Socially Minded Intelligence: How Individuals, Groups, and Artificial Intelligence Can Make Each Other Smarter (or Not)
Profile: Adrien Treuille
NOVA | The Wisdom of the Crowds | Season 45 | Episode 6
Mapping Citizen Science through the Lens of Human-Centered AI
Peer Production in Citizen Science: A Community-Centered Approach on the Example of Personal Science
