AI Update: AI still can't make images of centaurs.

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Extreme scenarios of AI focus on what is logically possible rather than what is physically possible. What does physics have to say about AI risk? 1/2

I was today-days-old before I realized this:

As "advanced" as a C student in an USA discrete math course... Gary Marcus

I swear to god the Deep Learning folks are just fucking with us now...

We are clearly "so-close" to Artificial General Intelligence. 🙄🙄🙄 More general non-intelligence here: chatgpt.com/share/ba30b32a…

Fun fact: LLMs are surprisingly bad at trigonometric substitutions. None of the GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, nor Gemini 1.5 can solve this:

R Twitter: is it a known-issue that R's `read.csv()` doesn't support round-tripping from binary64 -> decimal string -> binary64 with 17 decimal digits? Or is that a bug? Left is R and right is Python.

Love to see it. ellmer is legit, though! #tidyverse

It's amazing how much of my job is either (1) "clean up your room!" or (2) "can you just show the thing you're talking about?".

"AGI is here!" But also: top-of-the-line reasoning models can't extract calendar events from a screenshot of my daily calendar. What?

Always a bummer to find out Applied Math isn’t “Real” Math.