Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear - an essay where I grapple with how I feel about the continued steady march towards powerful AI systems. The world will bend around AI akin to how a black hole pulls and bends everything around itself.

intellectual property, by default, is a market failure. single well informed talented defectors can walk away from organizations with billions of dollars of tacit value of knowing what works and what doesn’t. the athlete metaphor is somewhat wrong

Wow, a new approach to AI reasoning! Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) While today's LLMs lean on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — often slow, fragile, and data-hungry — HRM flips the script with a brain-inspired, recurrent design that reasons in a single forward pass. The key

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Ilya Sutskever, in his speech at UToronto 2 days ago: "The day will come when AI will do all the things we can do." "The reason is the brain is a biological computer, so why can't the digital computer do the same things?" It's funny that we are debating if AI can "truly think"