Doug Lenat has died(garymarcus.substack.com)

517 points by snewman 3 years ago | 144 comments

Gary Marcus's Substack obituary for AI researcher Doug Lenat (1950-2023), creator of the Cyc project, describing him as a giant of AI.

AI Is Already Killing Books(matduggan.com)

50 points by tschumacher 2 years ago | 71 comments

AI will save the world?(pmarca.substack.com)

162 points by kjhughes 3 years ago | 149 comments

On AI writing(bolkunov.com)

72 points by dbolkunov 6 days ago | 61 comments

Blog post by Dima Bolkunov arguing that AI-generated writing averages out style, making the author harder to see and empathize with.

The Original AI Doomer: Dr. Norbert Wiener(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

90 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 61 comments

Can Demis Hassabis save Google?(bigtechnology.com)

105 points by laurex 2 years ago | 102 comments

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.

Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit(djnn.sh)

1070 points by vxvxvx 11 months ago | 300 comments

Blog post criticizing Anthropic's report on disrupting an AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign; the captured page shows a Cloudflare block screen.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews(the-decoder.com)

893 points by ahlCVA 4 months ago | 489 comments

The Decoder article reporting on a German court ruling that treats Google's AI Overviews as Google's own statements, making it liable for false answers.

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI(bloomberg.com)

553 points by lukebennett 1 year ago | 534 comments

Bloomberg article reporting that OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are seeing diminishing returns in building more advanced AI models.