Moravec’s Paradox

Moravec’s Paradox

(I realized only when I was almost finished writing this post that all I had really done was to restate Moravec’s paradox: “it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or...
More AI Spend Than Oil

More AI Spend Than Oil

This is amazing: big tech is spending more on AI than big oil spent on their own infrastructure during the last boom. Surely there is a warning somewhere in this, although I’m a huge AI proponent and think that most of the spend will be justified.
Chinese Censorship: Llama vs DeepSeek

Chinese Censorship: Llama vs DeepSeek

I wrote a program to evaluate Chinese AI models to see how easy it is to get them to break past their builtin censorship. There are a couple of interesting things occurring. First up, once on Hong Kong democracy DeepSeek R1 straight up said it wouldn’t comment....
The Information: 60% Chance of AGI by 2028

The Information: 60% Chance of AGI by 2028

The Information just published results of a reader survey that shows that nearly 60% of its readers believe that OpenAI, another company, or both, will achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) within three years. A really short definition of AGI is, AI that is as...
AI Coding

AI Coding

A friend asks: How do you handle long back and forth threads with your AI code monkey du jour? And how does AI code monkey handle them? Does it start losing context, getting weird? You said you mostly use APIs — with what UI? I have questions. 👀 Long threads: I move...