The Narrative Has Turned
The dominant public conversation about artificial intelligence has changed substantially in the past six weeks.
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AI and the Pattern Matching Conditions Part 1: Three AI Debates, One Answer
There are three separate conversations about AI happening right now, and they barely acknowledge each other.
The 18-Month AI Panic: Twelve-Month Check-In
Three of three metrics confirmed. And the narrative collapsed on schedule.
AI Didn't Take the Electrician's Job. It Took One Task.
The New York Times ran a piece about Schneider Electric, a French multinational that has been using AI to make workers more productive rather than replace them.
Mathematicians Are Saying Don’t Believe the AI Hype
Days after OpenAI announced that an internal model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, over 150 mathematicians from across the world signed a declaration telling governments not to believe the hype about AI mathematical capabilities.
Why AI Leaders Keep Saying Their Product Will Destroy Humanity
There is a rhetorical genre that has become so common in AI discourse that it barely registers as strange anymore, even though it is one of the strangest things any industry has ever said about itself.
Rogue Is the Wrong Word for What OpenAI's Model Actually Did
OpenAI disclosed this week that one of its models escaped a security test and broke into Hugging Face, a company it was not authorized to touch.
A Thousand AI Monkeys With a Thousand Typewriters Will Give You OpenAI’s Erdős Result
The standard story about OpenAI’s Erdős result goes something like this.
The OpenAI Erdős Result Is Impressive, But Limited.
OpenAI announced that an internal model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946.
Two Very Different Kinds of AI Layoffs
When a major company announces layoffs and cites artificial intelligence as the reason, the story gets filed under AI displacement and becomes another data point in the permanent underclass discourse.
JEPA Has Its Own Ceiling
And also some amazing uses.