Artificial intelligence
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AI Benchmarking
A month ago, I observed that out of three big magazines dedicated to literature, none had a recent discussion of AI and what it means…
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Why are More Neurons Better?
This is an excellent question whose answer is only obvious at first glance, asked by Scott Alexander on Astral Codex Ten. The correlation between the…
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The Humanities are Avoiding AI
Few people working in the humanities have extensively tested the latest large language models, and most people base their opinions on what they have heard…
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AI in Biology: Limited as long as it can’t do experiments
AI will soon design effective and safe drugs for any ailment. At least that’s commonly assumed, and on the surface it’s a reasonable prediction. After…
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AI Overreliance: Do we have to worry about a generation of brain-drained meat puppets?
I use AI at work and for fun, but I’m worried what it may do to us individually and as a society if we’re not…
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Do Composers Die Young? Maybe
When Mozart was my age, he was dead for five years already. He had gone from composing to decomposing. He wasn’t the only composer to…