New definition of AI safety, and it's not a good one: a human approves nearly every click, no matter how much you pre-approved.
Hours of agent work get chopped back into tiny chunks.
The last couple months of model "advancements" feel like a trip back to early 2026.
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People tell me they're excited about AI at work and avoid it at home.
The doom talk is loud. But what AI mostly does at work is eat the drudgery nobody had time for.
Threat or relief? Probably both, and probably in the same person.
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Bad DeepSeek takes flying thick and fast today. Thread of good ones instead:
(all subject to Matt's correct meta-take, caveat lector ⬇️ )
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The reason I was a founding donor to OpenAI in 2015 was not because I was interested in AI, but because I believed in Sam. So I hope the board can get its act together and bring Sam and Greg back.
Check out Paint Fiesta on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/mik…. Cool project! Good luck @MikeFesta
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The problem with starting a themed fund, if you're a VC, is what if the theme wasn't AI?
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“The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice”- only if we are willing to put in the hard work to make it bend.
There is never anything promised, or inevitable, about progress.
Only our collective work, and our sacrifice, makes it possible.
**News!** @ArneDuncan, former US Secretary of #Education under @BarackObama, spoke with @MubusoZamchiya about education leadership lessons for #COVID19 & more. Explore Arne's “#EdLeadership through Crisis” interview at bit.ly/3kU40Qn
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Thank you @CGDev for sharing these stories from @luminosfund & @TCFPak. We're working hard to help our students learn at home, but are clear-eyed this isn't learning as usual. @MusaMarriam @NadiaNavi @maryamakmal @ritaperakis #frontlinediaries #covid bit.ly/3bUwq7Y
If you are looking to get more into cooking during quarantine, I highly recommend @thefoodfreak here youtube.com/channel/UCuL-5yt…. Start with the pastas!
Very cool to see how @maretta207 and team at @luminosfund are helping mitigate food shortages in Liberia, Lebanon, and Ethiopia during COVID-19 cgdev.org/blog/diaries-front…
Support Beacon Hill Small Businesses: gofundme.com/f/ep67vh-suppor…
My wife is currently doing a site visit in Liberia at @luminosfund "speed schools" that enable children to catch up on literacy/numeracy and re-enter public school. #secondchance
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Don’t think I’ve linked to this before: patrickcollison.com/fast.
Would it be possible to have some kind of index that measures the friction associated with getting things done?
Good piece (from ~6 months ago) on trends in solar energy costs: nrel.gov/news/program/2018/c…
Very exciting day for @Salsify, $43 Million in additional funding after doubling in the past 12 months. Onward!
salsify.com/salsify-raises-s…
.@elonmusk's companies produce everything needed to build a city on the Moon or Mars: power (solar panels, storage), transportation (hyperloop, vehicles, tunnels), structures (bricks from excavation). What industries should move to a low gravity city to complete the vision?
"Perhaps it is mad for SpaceX to work feverishly to obsolete its Falcon 9 rocket, which it has spent a decade perfecting..." [1/2]
"... But [Spacex] was not a company founded to appease shareholders, plural. It was founded to appease a single shareholder. And he wants to go to Mars, dammit." arstechnica.com/science/2018… [2/2]
Great series from @withfries2 of a15z on what the (near) future will look like with self-driving / electric cars. a16z.com/2018/02/03/autonomy…
