The world of tomorrow(worksinprogress.co)

87 points by diodorus 1 year ago | 77 comments

When the future arrived, it felt ordinary(worksinprogress.co)

37 points by bswud 1 year ago | 5 comments

Houston, We Have a Solution (2023)(worksinprogress.co)

38 points by telotortium 2 years ago | 9 comments

Waking up science's sleeping beauties (2023)(worksinprogress.co)

59 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 25 comments

I was infected with Zika to test a vaccine(worksinprogress.co)

111 points by bswud 2 years ago | 74 comments

Why Britain doesn’t build(worksinprogress.co)

212 points by Twixes 3 years ago | 378 comments

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.