Obama on agentic AI
Obama recently said: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI…
Obama recently said: “If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI…
1. Nobel Laureates in support of the California billionaire wealth tax include Krugman, Acemoglu, Diamond, Stiglitz, Banerjee, and Duflo (FT). 2. Secretariat as GOAT. 3. Dead brains and the piano??…
It is excellent. It has one of the best user interfaces I have seen on any product. The model is good and the speed and clarity exemplary. It integrates with…
I observed, for example, that when I got an invitation to travel to give a talk in a different time zone, it mattered what time zone I was in when…
UK productivity rose at almost twice the pace previously estimated in the decade after the 2008 global financial crisis, according to new official figures that make Britain look much less…
…this month, Singapore launched a scheme promising actual cash to citizens as a reward for logging reading time on a government website. It’s unlikely to make you megabucks – you have to…
1. Critique of Villaroel on UAPs. 2. Bergen County (Korean) fact of the day. 3. AIs cracking superforecasting. 4. Gregor Benko, RIP (NYT). 5. Joshua Saxe on the increase in…
Scott Aaranson, theoretical computer scientist writes: My position on AI is merely the conservative, skeptical position of 2006, updated with intellectual honesty for the reality of late 2026. And that…
Using a panel of 81 countries across six World Values Survey waves (1990–2022), we examine whether growth in internet diffusion is associated with religious decline. We construct a six-item composite…
Asit Singh, founder of Syngi, received his grant to develop sub-angstrom optical MEMS sensors for next-generation semiconductor lithography. Rishabh received his grant to build a platform for real-time updates from…