Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
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NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Writing a book about AGI.
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Joined January 2009
Some news: I'm writing a book about AGI! . I've spent the past few years hanging out in San Francisco's AGI scene — the small cluster of people working to build human-level AI, or trying to stop it from being built, or living as if it's already here. I've heard a lot of great
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RT @polynoamial: Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO wi….
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We'll discuss it on the show, but since I'm getting asked about it: no, Sam Altman barging onto the Hard Fork Live stage 10 minutes ahead of schedule to harangue us about the NYT's lawsuit against OpenAI was not planned. Video coming shortly!.
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We had a lot of great guests and then to top it all off Mayor @DanielLurie stopped by as a surprise. More videos/audio will be up soon!
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A sold-out Hard Fork Live is in the books! Incredible night, thanks to everyone who came!
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RT @ZeffMax: There's a full house for NYT's Hard Fork Live in SF event, where @kevinroose and @CaseyNewton are set to interview @sama and @….
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(If any Anthropic employees know the actual answer to this q, please tell me, I need to profile Claude’s book broker).
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How do you even buy millions of used print books? Can you call up the Strand and go “yes hello I’d like two million books”.
Anthropic purchased millions of physical print books to digitally scan them for Claude
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Need a phrase like “vanity metric” but for numbers you can’t disclose because they reveal your dominance and create existential malaise in all who hear them.
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There was a time ~8 years ago when YouTube stopped disclosing aggregate watch time, in part because the number was so high that people felt gross about it. This might be that moment for shorts!.
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I used to think the "fancy autocomplete" stuff was just goofy cope from NLP dead-enders, but maybe it's actually more calculated than that. There's clearly a market for people who want to be told that AI is a fad and that they don't need to worry about it.
it’s truly nonsensical to say things like this when genai is legit super useful for consumers and businesses - i mean, i get the academic shtick, but it is automating a ton of work already . get over it :)
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Hard Fork Live is going to be incredible. This ChatGPT Coachella poster doesn't even capture all of the fun stuff we've got planned.
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The problem with trying to buy your way into the AGI race in 2025 is that top-tier AI researchers 1) are already rich, 2) think we have like 1-4 years before superintelligence, and 3) don't want to spend those years building AI companions for Instagram.
META attempted to buy Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, and also attempted to hire him, according to reporting tonight by CNBC.
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RT @DKThomp: Amazon CEO: "As we role out more Generative AI and agents . we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being….
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Going to start acting crazy in meetings to poison the RL training environments for robot journalists.
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All the AI-for-meetings notetaker apps are going to end up selling training data to companies trying to automate white-collar jobs, right?.
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The @NYTmag asked me and Casey to record an opener for their big AI issue about how we use AI. We had a good time, and I got to unveil my mental model of LLMs: a very smart assistant who is also high on ketamine.
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