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AI skeptics: LLMs are copy-paste engines, incapable of original thought, basically worthless. Professionals who track AI progress: We've worked with 60 mathematicians to build a hard test that modern systems get 2% on. Hope this benchmark lasts more than a couple of years.

Hey folks! The SANS #HolidayHack Challenge Act 1 launches TODAY at Noon Eastern US Time! You can join NOW and solve 2 prologue challenges from last week, and then jump into Act 1 to get to the North Pole SOOOOON! sans.org/holidayhack

I love how enthusiastic our primary school teachers are about history podcasts. But I suspect we won't convince our 9yo to listen to episodes about Yeltsin and the Mughal Empire. Nice try though. And thanks for the 19(!) pages of recommendations that I will use for myself.

"We must shock this nation with the power of love" ... more than ever. What a track.

It's happening. I am now spending most of my time over at Bluesky. Keeping my fingers crossed that the network effect will do its bit to bring most accounts I am following here over to Bluesky. You can find me under the same handle Stephan Geering (mainly on Bluesky).

I'm not sure whether it's depressing or comforting that even great intellectuals can be fools, vulnerable to their own biases.

Incompetence is a fair bet to hang your hopes on. But it's a wild bet to build your plans on.

Im Ready !Listen with your heart and your eyes shut! Thank You Everyone

Jupiter by James Webb

For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! science.org/doi/full/10.11…

OED #WordOfTheDay: rariora, n. Rare books. View the entry: oxford.ly/40Au62X

But it feels fresh and quite fun, almost like old Twitter.

My recap of #DPC24 with some high-level thoughts and links to good summaries over at LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pulse/recap-dp…

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Reminder: I permanently moved over to Bluesky which is most definitely a better home.

Ok, folks, seriously: What are you still doing here?

Hey, remaining privacy, security and AI governance friends. Isn't it high time to leave this place? Bluesky is a much nicer place and you can help build up what's still a (too) small community.