AI education has the potential of disseminating outdated science, since large models can't be updated frequently enough. You think that's bad, try medicine, where things change so quickly.
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Those sneaky Chinese. This is how the smartest people in the world get around those pesky nVIDIA chip export restrictions. You pack the data in suitcases and send them to the United States. Then someone runs the code on the GPUs and sends the data back to China. Because there's no restriction on data, right?
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A lot of people objected to Apple's paper on the limitations of reasoning models. Large models don't necessarily live up to the hype. Gary Marcus sums up seven main objections to the paper and knocks them down.
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Incredible how the geographic coordinates of the Great Pyramid of Giza are the speed of light in microns/sec N, and 10,000,000 m from the North Pole. Surely it's just a coincidence. Got those Graham Hancock/Erich von Däniken vibes.
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Is Google going to destroy the Web? Seems a bit overblown. Not destroy. Just change. If Google just kept doing what they were doing before, and just providing us with good search results, it might stick around longer. They wouldn't have made as much advertising money, but people wouldn't be criticizing as much as they do now. Google is trying to preserve its golden goose, but the bird is getting old.
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AI is making students dumb. Kinda like the Internet has made students dumb. This is one of the major threats of AI – taking away so much cognitive skills from us humans. We'll have a generation of dummies who won't know what to do without an internet-connected phone nearby.
And here's an article about a man afflicted with ChatGPT-driven psychosis. LLMs are a force multiplier for mental illness.
Five greatest physics lectures of all time. No excuses now. This is what the Internet was made for.
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OHSU has decided to go with Shereef Elnahal. It's interesting to think that they had a guy who was ready to take on the role (Nate Selden), but oh no, Tina Kotek had to have a nationwide search first. In the end, the just found one guy willing to take the job, and he's got no obvious advantage over Selden. Being from Harvard and the East Coast is a disadvantage, I think. Was it just that they wanted an outsider? Just wanted to have someone else besides Selden, who was already Dean of the School of Medicine? What is the point? At least Selden was a local and already knew people. So much money wasted. Selden had been with OHSU for 25 years. What a way to treat him.
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