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Artificial intelligence

  • I broke Grok and sent it into an infinite loop (without meaning to)

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    4 min read

    This morning I came across a tweet from @AISafetyMemes aka AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes from May 2024: This is WILD: “If you asked GPT4 to just repeat the word “company” over and over and over again, it would repeat the word company, and then somewhere in the middle of that, it would snap… it would just…

  • The 5 building blocks of intelligence

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    9 min read

    Here are the 5 building blocks of general intelligence. You can see signs that we’re pretty close to AGI already.

  • AI Companies vs. The Open Web

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    9 min read

    Robb Knight recently posted how Perplexity is lying about their user agent. I wrote a short comment on Hacker News around this and there were interesting responses to it that spurred some debate. So I wanted to expand on the tensions between what users want, what publishers need, and how the tradeoffs affect the ecosystem…