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A Year of Telepathy
Over the past year, three people with paralysis have received Neuralink implants. This blog post explores how each person is using Telepathy in everyday life.
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LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
Things are about to get wild
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AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery
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My 25-year adventure in AI and ML
This is the 25-year story of how I fell into the field of AI.
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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem
LLM models are plateauing, but true AGI isn't about scaling the next breakthrough model—it's about engineering the right context, memory, and workflow systems. AGI is fundamentally a systems engineering problem, not a model training problem.
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AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
Data from the Census Bureau and Ramp shows that AI adoption rates are starting to flatten out across all firm...
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LLM Inflation
One of the signal achievements of computing is data compression 1 : we take in data, make it smaller while retaining all information (“lossless” compression), transmit it, and then decompress it back to the original at the other end.
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Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness
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AI Slop vs. OSS Security
griff Table of Contents Author's Note What Exactly is the Problem? Human Capital is Limited Burnout Burnout Burnout What AI Slop Looks Like The CV...
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Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
Gemini Live with video and screen sharing is now rolling out to Android mobile devices.
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Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time
People think they can use Fine-Tune for Knowledge Injection. People are Wrong
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Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
Simply describe any story, and Gemini instantly generates a unique 10-page book with custom art and audio.
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Phi-4 Bug Fixes
Fine-tune Microsoft's new Phi-4 model with Unsloth! We've also found & fixed 4 bugs in the model.
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AI Police Reports: Year in Review
In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writing police reports is Axon’s Draft One, and Axon also happens to be the largest...
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If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
Using AI agents correctly is a process of reviewing code. If you’re good at reviewing code, you’ll be good at using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or the…
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PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisors who view technology as a transformative solution to the country’s economic ills. Lauding it as a “new productive…
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Building AI products in the probabilistic era
AI turns products from deterministic functions into probabilistic systems. That requires expanding old playbooks (SLOs, funnels, siloed finance), and reasoning in terms of trajectories, Minimum Viable Intelligence thresholds, and data as company operating system.
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Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
To create reliable agents, AI companies had to go beyond predicting the next token.
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Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.
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The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection
Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
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Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT
Developers can now submit apps for review and publication in ChatGPT, with approved apps appearing in a new in-product directory for easy discovery. Updated tools, guidelines, and the Apps SDK help developers build powerful chat-native experiences that bring real-world actions into ChatGPT.
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My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)
moved to https://blog.efitz.net/posts/my-experience-creating-software-with-llm-coding-agents-part-2-tips/
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The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)
Word2vec is a pervasive tool for learning word embeddings. Its success, however, is mostly due to particular architecture choices. Transferring these choices to traditional distributional methods makes them competitive with popular word embedding methods.
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Mini-R1: Reproduce DeepSeek R1 "Aha Moment"
Reproduce Deepseek R1 „aha moment“ and train an open model using reinforcement learning trying to teach it self-verification and search abilities all on its own to solve the Countdown Game.
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"AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
Over the weekend, I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percent of jobs. It doesn't exist. Worse than that, actually,
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Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models
Introducing our first Frontier Models!
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Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting
There’s something icky about LLM-generated text when you think it’s written by a human. I think I finally put my finger on one reason why I feel this way.
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Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem
NVIDIA sent me a preview unit of their new DGX Spark desktop “AI supercomputer”. I’ve never had hardware to review before! You can consider this my first ever sponsored post …
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