Ingo Boltz
@ingoboltz
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I love to explore new technology and apply it to help address social and environmental issues.
Buenos Aires / Berlin
Joined May 2009
Oops. ‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
theguardian.com
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
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Oh, well. It would have been nice if it had been true. No, Dell is still pushing AI in PCs
pivot-to-ai.com
Last week was the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Every gadget maker showed off their stuff and told the tech press all about it. And it’s all AI. Toys, AI. Microwaves, AI. Hair clippers? Y…
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It just keeps baffling me how the term-wranglers have such a large share of the AI debate. SO "AGI" is here because frontier LLMs are "pretty general" in capabilities? After having been RL-post-trained to death on everything, but still don't understand? https://t.co/wPbOowPodV
robinsloan.com
I propose to begin this year with an acknowledgment that is strategic but/and also sincere.
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A good distinction made here. The fight against the noxious effects of social media felt quixotic because the platforms themselves didn't create the toxic trash themselves and thus were not liable. With AI that changes, the labs' systems are the creators! https://t.co/daljgUlgGv
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Looks like Google is taking it slow with integrating this in Gmail, which is good. Not letting security-brittle "agents" drop on clueless normal users is prudent. Though I wonder about the "AI Inbox" vulnerability to prompt injection attacks? https://t.co/pXNmk8ojon
blog.google
Learn more about the next era of Gmail, now using Gemini 3 and Personal Intelligence.
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Fascinating psychological exploration on why the AI Water issue (really one of the smaller problems with the technology) is so resilient amongst its acolytes. Why the AI Water Issue Has Nothing to Do With Water
thealgorithmicbridge.com
A psychological autopsy
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Hardware makers listening to what their customers actually want! Revolutionary! :-P Though I still have hope for locally run voice2text models for better dictation! Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
pcgamer.com
"A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."
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Deep dive on how reinforcement learning has powered most recent model performance improvements. We won't get AGI, the models still don't understand, but by pulling EVERYTHING into the training distribution, they may intuit well enough on most tasks soon? https://t.co/Vdah0CD250
newsletter.semianalysis.com
Worker Automation, RL as a Service, Anthropic's next big bet, GDPval and Utility Evals, Computer Use Agents, LLMs in Biology, Mid-Training, Lab Procurement Patterns, Platform Politics and Access
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Excellent, measured writing on the hype phenomenon of our days. Loving this! How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
technologyreview.com
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies...
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Interesting to learn what the current state of the art of interpretability is. If this is the cutting edge, we can infer that we still know almost nothing about how frontier models really work. OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works
technologyreview.com
The experimental model won't compete with the biggest and best, but it could tell us why they behave in weird ways—and how trustworthy they really are.
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Very insightful AI analogy to an older VC-funded startup that got money even though investors knew it would fail, because the VCs knew greater fools would buy the story and let them cash out. From 2015, it’s uBeam — never mind reality, here’s the VCs
pivot-to-ai.com
Today’s a holiday special, and we’re not really doing AI at all. But we sort of are — this is about the AI venture capitalists, how they think, and how they were always like this. This is the story…
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This feels a bit like mining companies paying for a village school to social-wash their environmental destruction, no? 🟡 Semafor Tech: Predicting ’26 | Semafor
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We're having a definition issue here. "Slop" doesn't mean "created cheaply with the help of AI". It means created with minimal effort, not aiming for originality but for volume, and reactive click bait engagement. So no, let's not defend it. https://t.co/4gBRcKW8gZ
newsletter.rootsofprogress.org
When costs fall, average quality does too
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This. Not AGI fever dreams. Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
technologyreview.com
It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life
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A fascinating deep dive, written by an author with 40 years of experience in the field. Guaranteed no hype here. Worth reading if the field is of interest to you! AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world
technologyreview.com
Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment.
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Do you hate "dynamic" pricing for things like airline tickets? Well, the practice is coming for your grocery shopping. Algos trying to determine how price sensitive you are re an item, and then squeeze you for every last penny you'll still part with. https://t.co/NSioTlME14
consumerreports.org
Exclusive: Instacart’s AI pricing may be inflating your grocery bill.
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