“Progress in exploiting the existing stock of knowledge will depend first and foremost on the efficiency and cost of access to knowledge” Important pathway to impact for LLMs via Joel Mokyr’s The Gifts of Athena (2002)

"Computer science does not live only in papers. It lives in code, in products, and in the way people use technology. If we want our work to matter, we should ask not just who cites it but who uses it" medium.com/@danielequerci… Quercia

Pleased to share our new piece nature titled: "We Need a New Ethics for a World of AI Agents". AI systems are undergoing an ‘agentic turn’ shifting from passive tools to active participants in our world. This moment demands a new ethical framework.

In a discussion on AI and economics at DeepMind, tylercowen argued that while model progress is fast, real-world frictions mean the "slow takeoff" for broad living standards is a tough, possibly decades-long slog. Great questions by Zhengdong too! aipolicyperspectives.com/p/a-discussion…

Congrats to the Genie team on this incredible launch of Genie 3 🧞🚀🚀🚀 from 16 frames in 2D platformer to 1 minute of real world, real time generation, amazing to see how far this project has come!!

Realtime interactive generative models FTW! Announcing a new 🌊 of details and features for Magenta RealTime, the open weights live music AI model from GDM! * Live Jamming with audio input 🎤🎸🎵 * Personalize your own models 🔧 * Tech report 📜 Links below in the 🧵...

Client: How much do you charge? Me: $400/hour (with thinking) & $20/hour (without thinking)

“One striking conclusion to be drawn is that it is enormously difficult for contemporaries to realize how dramatically their world is changing, what the important elements are, and how technology will shape their future” (Joel Mokyr re : living an industrial revolution)

New essay from Diane Coyle in Noema Magazine : “It is time for better statistics that track the economy as it is today, not as it was eight decades ago. This ought to mean investing in the collection of statistics.” noemamag.com/the-critical-i…

THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE A new collection of 16 essays on how to accelerate AI for science & security: ifp.org/launch The AI revolution is already delivering enormous consumer benefits. But AI progress won't automatically solve humanity's most important problems first. To

A new winner in the "most ridiculous thing said about AI + environment" goes to the British govt. Yes, this is real. I assure you these crazy beliefs about energy and water usage are *widespread* among a certain crowd (need to convince them cookie popups waste the most water!)

David Hume on metascience (1742)

David Hume on metascience (1742)

I took 3 Econ 101 lectures and here's why I think GDP is completely useless yet experienced economists continue to use it.

If you use my "better way to read your academic papers than PDF + AI integration" code, I updated it to automatically extract the vector & raster images from your pdfs, so the whole thing is automated now. Do let me know if you have any issues. (Link follows)