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Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
Dec 18, 2024
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
Aug 19, 2024
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Sayash Kapoor
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AI scaling myths
Scaling will run out. The question is when.
Jun 27, 2024
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
Jun 3, 2024
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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Will AI transform law?
The hype is not supported by current evidence
Jan 24, 2024
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability
How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
Aug 11, 2023
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing).
A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
Mar 1, 2023
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
Feb 22, 2023
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful
The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new…
Dec 6, 2022
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90…
Nov 17, 2022
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism
A checklist for avoiding hype
Sep 30, 2022
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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Generative AI models generate AI hype
Over 90% of images of AI produced by a popular image generation tool contain humanoids
Sep 9, 2022
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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