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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
AI Snake Oil 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
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Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
AI Snake Oil 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
AI Snake Oil 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
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AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
AI Snake Oil 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 6mo ago
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
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AGI is not a milestone
AI Snake Oil 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1y ago
AGI is not a milestone
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
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Is AI progress slowing down?
AI Snake Oil 📰 AI News & Updates ⚡ AI Lesson 1y ago
Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
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Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1y ago
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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Can AI automate computational reproducibility?
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 1y ago
Can AI automate computational reproducibility?
A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
AI Snake Oil 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 2y ago
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
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AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2y ago
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2y ago
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.
AI Snake Oil 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2y ago
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.
What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
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AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder
AI Snake Oil 📰 AI News & Updates ⚡ AI Lesson 2y ago
AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder
What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
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