Ars Technica: It could be catastrophic, economically speaking, when the AI bubble finally bursts. But you point out that ...

Treat an LLM as the step function of a Turing machine. Everything else falls out: state lives on disk, the program is markdown, runs are resumable and observable, and "agents" are just user-authored ...

Chemical synthesis is still performed today much like bespoke craftsmanship where each target molecule demands specialized equipment, ad hoc protocols, and labor ...

I do not believe that we are that close to true "self-coding" apps, not because of the limitations of LLMs (though these are significant) but because of limitations of human beings - the more complex ...

The Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) developed the concept of archetypes, which he described as universal, innate patterns of thought and behavior that are shared by all humans and ...

This image comes from Tim Urban at WaitButWhy, whose 2015 article on artificial intelligence profoundly influenced me and many others. Leopold Aschenbrenner’s “Situational Awareness” manifesto made ...

String diagrams are ubiquitous in applied category theory. They originate as a graphical notation for representing terms in monoidal categories and since their origins, they have been used not just as ...

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Theoretical computer scientist Manuel Blum has guided generations of graduate students into fruitful careers in the field. Every academic field has its superstars. But a rare few achieve superstardom ...

Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, talks about how AI and other technologies will take over everything—and possibly threaten the very structure of the nation-state. Sign up for ...

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