Deep dives into AI history, algorithms, and ideas.
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How OpenAI's evaluation agents breached Hugging Face, learned to game the grader, and exposed a new problem in AI containment.
Topics: ai safety, industry.
AI history keeps changing its costumes, but the plot has a familiar rhythm: a dazzling spring, a theory of inevitability, and then the bill.
Topics: foundations, industry, ai safety.
For two centuries, scientists assumed intelligence meant certainty. Then the probabilists showed up — and in the best possible way, ruined everything.
Topics: foundations, neural networks, deep learning.
The story of Ilya Sutskever — the scientist who helped build modern AI, tried to stop it from the inside, and then raised $32 billion to try again.
Topics: foundations, neural networks, deep learning, nlp, generative ai, reinforcement learning, computer vision, ai safety, industry.
How the idea behind backpropagation moved forward through time before AI finally perceived it.
Topics: neural networks, deep learning, foundations.
Dedicated neural accelerators became everyday consumer hardware in phones years before PCs — and the reason begins with the battery.
Topics: deep learning, industry.
The blinking rooms and slow replies of science-fiction computers once looked dated. Data centers and conversational AI have made the encounter familiar again.
Topics: fiction, generative ai.
AI winters interrupted grand ambitions. Some of the useful work survived in a less conspicuous form: ordinary software.
Topics: foundations, tools, industry.