How do people who work in AI grapple with the exciting possibilities that it offers while simultaneously dealing with the existential doom or knowing what is and what is about to happen?

Few will get why this is hilarious but damn that is good.

China shuts down AI chatbots during exams. 🤯 theverge.com/news/682737/ch…

Wasn’t going to take long.

My colleague basically unknowingly described NotebookLM. Answer: I told them to use Notebook LM.

This approach will destroy the utility of LLMs and anyone who tries it is a dirt bag. The same thing happened with the internet. SEO is what ruined Google. One of the ONLY reasons LLMs are useful is precisely because they aren’t being SEO’d. Stop this nonsense.

bro sh*t just got so real. Claude Opus published a response paper to Apple’s paper, criticizing their experiment design, putting models under token limit constraints, and having them solve unsolvable problems.

I used the Ari agent (you.com) to write a lit review. It looked at over 240 sources, compiled them into a downloadable doc, formatted nicely with over 65 citations and a clickable contents page. It took 1/10th the time to generate compared to Deep Research.

Understanding AI Legal Risks and Brand Safety: Key Thoughts from Hampshire AI open.substack.com/pub/classfutur…

“The arrival of A.I. means that you can now bypass the process, and the difficulty, altogether”. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

A recent podcast with myself and the brilliant Mike Kentz where we discuss AI, creativity, addiction, and my experience of No AI December. m.youtube.com/watch?v=YAWX6N…

This is a fantastic, visually stunning, free introductory book on deep learning. Highly recommended for curious people who want the lay of the land.

Yay!

Always nice to receive messages like this for my essay writing guide. It’s a simple, fairly basic, but first principles based approach to writing a solid essay. Very easy to follow and adapt. Written after years of marking thousands of essays. docs.google.com/document/d/1BY…

Until massive assessment reforms are made across entire programs in higher education any award completed from Nov 2022 will need to have a big question mark attached to it.

Millions of applicants’ data exposed due to AI chatbot—including names, emails, phone numbers. wired.com/story/mcdonald…

“Outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs may deprive us of the opportunity to reflect on our field and engage in the creative, essential task of shaping research findings into a compelling narrative […]” Thanks to Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE for sharing.

I feel for coordinators of this program. The course outline explicitly states the program will follow a critical exploration of what it means to make art with GenAI. If you aren’t interested in that, then don’t take the course. news.com.au/finance/unsw-u…