Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit(lesswrong.com)

474 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 375 comments

LessWrong linkpost essay arguing recent AI model improvements feel overstated, based on experience building an AI codebase security-scanning startup.

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era(lesswrong.com)

300 points by joozio 7 months ago | 220 comments

AIs Will Increasingly Attempt Shenanigans(lesswrong.com)

19 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 12 comments

An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details(lesswrong.com)

14 points by joozio 3 months ago | 9 comments

A deep critique of AI 2027's bad timeline models(lesswrong.com)

74 points by paulpauper 1 year ago | 38 comments

What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit(lesswrong.com)

21 points by joozio 22 days ago | 11 comments

A LessWrong linkpost by Katalina Hernandez reflecting on lessons from co-leading an AI safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners.

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.

We must pace the frontier(darioamodei.com)

697 points by apsec112 1 month ago | 958 comments

Essay by Dario Amodei arguing that frontier AI development must be paced, weighing AI's potential benefits like curing diseases against its risks.

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs(calnewport.com)

528 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 220 comments

Cal Newport blog post arguing that frontier AI labs like OpenAI should be investigated over their recent brazen announcements and behavior.

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter(anthropic.com)

36 points by artninja1988 14 days ago | 26 comments

Anthropic Frontier Red Team post reporting experiments suggesting small AI models may soon self-replicate on commercial IoT devices without datacenter access.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else(washingtonpost.com)

359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 months ago | 596 comments

Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.