AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...
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
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on th…
An Update On How I Use AI To Help With Techdirt (It’s Still Not Writing Articles)
Over in our Insider Chat, someone recently pointed out a tiered “REAL Rating” five-tier scale designed to replace the fairly blunt and misleading question of “did you use AI on th…
The end of the age of heroes
AI will soon be better at math than any human. What does that mean?
AI is not superhuman
What metaphor should drive the field of AI research?
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people and companies making it happen.
AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science
Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration
Designing AI for Disruptive Science
Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.
Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name popularly given to a broad spectrum of computer tools designed to perform increasingly complex cognitive tasks, including many that used to solely be the...
The Productivity Is Real. The Scaling Isn't.
What running an AI agent team taught me about why organizations can't do what one person can.
Absolutely incredible figure from this journal article arguing that AI should be accepted into the publication and peer review process. #MedSky doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2025-1180
Absolutely incredible figure from this journal article arguing that AI should be accepted into the publication and peer review process. #MedSky doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2025-1180
The Jagged AI Frontier
The nonintuitive strengths and weaknesses of AI performance relative to human performance, and how it is changing over time.
AI 2027
What will be left for us to work on?
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
Taking more seriously the claim that recent ML models do not "reason", it still is quite odd the particular ways that superhuman game-playin…
General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks
StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
