I had some fun speaking at #sxswlondon this week. Video for FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AI should be coming soon!

I think Kevin Roose needs to talk to more people outside San Francisco www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

Blech

OpenAI talks about users + chatbots seeking the truth together. But one upshot is that you can now tell ChatGPT to stop giving you balanced perspectives if you don't like it disagreeing with you: "I don't want to hear both sides!"

Several accounts from USAID workers have now mentioned Gemini being used to surveil them. Here's NY Magazine nymag.com/intelligence...

I agree about the science of evaluation. But this is also Meta walking back from its recent open-source 4eva branding. If Meta creates a model that is too risky - according to Meta - then it now has an excuse not to release it.

Ted Chiang on AI feels

And yet there's more to the DeepSeek story. Building a very efficient model that uses few chips probably requires building one (or more) inefficient models that use a lot of chips first.

TLDR don't bet against Big Chip yet

This is good blog.heim.xyz/deepseek-wha...

And chaser: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Like all big ideas, AI comes with baggage. I tried to unpack decades of motivation and marketing into one definitive piece that gets at the heart of this collective technodream.