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It's the end of pretraining as we know it

Why large language models struggle with long contexts

LLMs are much worse than humans at learning from experience

We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.

GM just abandoned its robotaxi plans

Embers of autoregression in the latest o1 model

A great way to help poor people: give them money

How to think like an economist about AI and jobs

Seven big advantages human workers have over AI

How Donald Trump could help Elon Musk with his robotaxi plans

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Are transformer-based foundation models running out of steam?

Why the deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

Meet me in Los Angeles for the Ride AI Summit on April 2

Six principles for thinking about AI risk

The AI Investment Boom

Tesla's robotaxi event offered few technical details

Elon Musk wants to dominate robotaxis—first he needs to catch up to Waymo

The latest AI models are hungry for inference compute

Governor Newsom vetoed California's most controversial AI safety bill

OpenAI just unleashed an alien of extraordinary ability

15 self-driving companies to watch

Tesla's near-infinite training data isn't silver bullet

How transformer-based networks are improving self-driving software

Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions

We could be months away from driverless semi trucks on Texas freeways

What the AI safety movement can learn from the self-driving industry

Grok 2 and Llama 3.1 don't stand out from the pack

Waymo is growing exponentially

A Tesla Model Y put me in the self-driving penalty box

Predictions of AI doom are too much like Hollywood movie plots

California should rethink its broad and sloppily drafted deepfake bill

A California bill could seriously limit open-weight AI models

Measuring intelligence isn't easy

AI mailbag: what's going on with Alexa?

Thoughts on Leopold Aschenbrenner's “situational awareness”

Anthropic and Google's new mid-sized models are on par with GPT-4o

How consumer demand could limit AI-driven growth

The hidden side of Apple Intelligence

Please ask me a question

Why Substack launched a support chatbot

Anthropic decoded the vectors Claude uses to represent abstract concepts

Johansson's beef with OpenAI points to unclear laws on voice cloning

Waymo’s investments in San Francisco may be paying off

On self driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

The new ChatGPT has a lot more personality (but only a little more brains)

Not-so-large language models: a concise guide

The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology

Grandes modelos de linguagem, explicados com o mínimo de matemática e jargão

I'm taking a short break

Amazon is dropping no-checkout tech from many grocery stores

The fall of Inflection makes me more skeptical of "scaling laws"

States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes

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Grandes modelos de lenguaje (LLM): una explicación con un mínimo de matemáticas y tecnicismos

Claude 3: ChatGPT finally has a serious rival

Why Elon Musk sued OpenAI

Google's newest LLM can handle 10 million tokens of context

Gemini Advanced is not that advanced

Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI

The coming Waymo monopoly

The case for—and against—rapid AI-driven growth

A DeepMind AI rivals the world's smartest high schoolers at geometry

FunSearch, self-driving trucks, and how to keep up with AI news

AI could be bad news for young lawyers

What's ahead for large language models?

Why I'm skeptical simulation can enable superintelligence