AI has undeniably made progress; systems like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are impressive, surprising, and fun to play with. We can all agree on that. But can the current state of AI be criticized? A lot of recent media accounts have tried to stick AI critics in a little box. Scie … | Continue reading
Tools like Stable Diffusion and Dall-E are inarguably brilliant at drawing images. But how well do they understand the world? | Continue reading
Clever Hans and how corporate AI plays the media, in 2022 | Continue reading
From a showmanship standpoint, Google’s new robot project PaLM-SayCan is incredibly cool. Humans talk, and a humanoid robot listens, and acts. In the best case, the robot can read between the lines, moving beyond the kind of boring direct speech (“bring me pretzels from the kitch … | Continue reading
Sure, kids imitate their parents, but that’s just a small part of the story | Continue reading
and why (a) large language models are so prone to fabricating misinformation and (b) DALL-E is no super-genius | Continue reading
What nearly everyone got wrong about DALL-E & Google’s Imagen, and why when it comes to AI hype, you still can't believe what you read | Continue reading
An Enthusiastic Adversarial Collaboration with @Sl8rv | Continue reading
And will it survive if it doesn’t? | Continue reading
No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly. | Continue reading
Probably so. A response to Scott Alexander’s essay, “Somewhat Contra Marcus On AI Scaling” | Continue reading
Tracking the evolution of large language models | Continue reading
Are large language models a good model of *human* language? | Continue reading
Should we really expect artificial general intelligence in 2029? | Continue reading