Artificial intelligence
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Lab-in-the-Loop: The self-driving research laboratories speeding up drug discovery
Artificial intelligence isn’t going to solve drug discovery, at least not the way some people imagine it is going to. Even a hyperintelligent AI, having…
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Do Composers Die Young? Yes, they have shorter life expectancy
Last February, I asked different AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek) to investigate if composers have historically died younger than other professions. Two of them couldn’t answer…
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AI Against Slop: LLMs may help the internet move on from chasing clicks
Hamilton Mann worries that AI makes monetizing content creation on the internet more difficult and less lucrative. It’s a valid concern, but there’s a more…
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Even Chances: AI could be good or bad, and we have no idea which is more likely
If betting or forecasting markets give even chances for two outcomes, it could either be that they are equally likely to happen, or that nobody…
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LLMs Are Not High IQ: AI doesn’t perform well on intelligence tests
Practicing for intelligence tests doesn’t improve performance much. IQ tests really seem to measure some innate ability that is relatively unresponsive to training. Processing speed…
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AI Jaggedness: The edge of what’s possible
On One Weird Thing, Ethan Mollick argues that getting AI to be more powerful (both in the sense of more useful and more dangerous) is…
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