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AI Is Learning to Think Between the Words
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (484+ words) New architectural improvements could change how frontier AI models think, with lasting consequences for the security of digital infrastructure. Last night, The Information reported that OpenAI’s forthcoming Astra model uses a technique called “recurrent depth.” The story immediately generated some…...
AI in Drug R&D: At Last, the End of the Beginning
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1051+ words) What makes the conversation more interesting now is that we are beginning to get past the abstraction and caricatures, and head toward something more useful: a clearer capability profile of what AI actually does well, under what conditions, and what…...
AI and the Tower of Babble
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (163+ words) Nixon actually told the Times that “practically speaking, [AGI] will achieve the outcomes that many religions claim their deities would be able to achieve.” Another executive agreed: “People are matter-of-factly saying that they are looking to build a machine God.......
Why There’s Still No ‘Science of Reading’ Equivalent for Math Instruction
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (392+ words) Rick: Larry, we’ve seen more than a decade of dismal performance in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. What’s going on? Rick: Any other factors you’d flag? Rick: What’s the biggest problem in math instruction? Rick: You’ve spent…...
"AI for Good" and "I Am Not a Robot": Learning the Machines
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (160+ words) As utopian accelerationists and apocalyptic doomers battle over competing visions of artificial intelligence’s future, a third group has quietly applied the still-evolving technology to the problems of the present. These understated pragmatists are the heroes of Josh Tyrangiel’s “AI for…...
FP! Week in Review, Briefly #30
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (678+ words) ⤵️ Here’s why Europe produces Nobel laureates but not Elon Musks (Wednesday) A selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the past week. Environment of Extremes: Persistent AI skeptics may continue to see the technology as an overhyped, clunky tool,…...
FP! Week in Review, Briefly #27
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (662+ words) 🪖💡 War is bad for ideas (Monday) ⤴️ An Up Wing future is possible: A Quick Q&A with … the authors of ‘A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come’ (Tuesday) A selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news…...
FP! Week in Review, Briefly #26
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1746+ words) 🏙️ Higher love: The case for building up (Sunday) ✨ The Age of AI, an update: My chat with policy analyst Dean Ball (Tuesday) 🚀 ‘For All Mankind,’ for real (Friday) ▶️ Also: Transcript of my chat with policy analyst Dean Ball A selection…...
FP! Week in Review, Briefly #23
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (670+ words) ✨ The end of work? Not yet—maybe not ever (Sunday) 🚀 How to get from here to there—way out there, actually (Thursday) A selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the past week. Brace for 2028: If AI wipes out…...
FP! Week in Review, Briefly #22
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (1853+ words) 🌎 Storm watch: My chat with climate policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. (Thursday) A selection of pro-progress and anti-progress news items from the past week. Hot Idea: Reps. Mark Amodei and Jake Auchincloss want to apply that formula to geothermal. Their…...