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AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure
AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure
Can AI agents resist pressure or do they crack? Discover how PropensityBench tests their likelihood to misbehave when put under pressure.
·spectrum.ieee.org·
AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure
Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
Feb. 1, 2024: Something unprecedented is happening in Earth orbit. In only a few short years, the satellite population has skyrocketed, more than doubling since 2020. In the past year alone, more s…
·spaceweatherarchive.com·
Will Satellite Megaconstellations Weaken Earth’s Magnetic Field?
OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates - Slashdot
OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates - Slashdot
OpenAI's latest reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinate more frequently than the company's previous AI systems, according to both internal testing and third-party research. On OpenAI's PersonQA benchmark, o3 hallucinated 33% of the time -- double the rate of older models o1 (16%) and o3-mini (...
·slashdot.org·
OpenAI Puzzled as New Models Show Rising Hallucination Rates - Slashdot
99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 — Here’s Why
99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 — Here’s Why
99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 — Here’s Why In the late ’90s, I was a student at Berkeley watching the dot-com boom unfold like a fever dream. Traffic equated to revenue Adding .com to …
·skooloflife.medium.com·
99% of AI Startups Will Be Dead by 2026 — Here’s Why
Why What We Decide to Name New Technologies Is So Crucial
Why What We Decide to Name New Technologies Is So Crucial
What should we call augmented and virtual reality? Apple has thoughts. So do others. The debate matters: What we name new tech affects how we perceive it.
·singularityhub.com·
Why What We Decide to Name New Technologies Is So Crucial
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...
·simplyexplained.com·
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
A ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix
A ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix
In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a …
·simonwillison.net·
A ChatGPT prompt equals about 5.1 seconds of Netflix
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a hallucination—usually the LLM inventing a method or even a full …
·simonwillison.net·
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
A computer can never be held accountable
A computer can never be held accountable
This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a …
·simonwillison.net·
A computer can never be held accountable
Lossy encyclopedia
Lossy encyclopedia
Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts …
·simonwillison.net·
Lossy encyclopedia
How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF)
How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF)
Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
·simonwillison.net·
How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF)
Initial explorations of Anthropic’s new Computer Use capability
Initial explorations of Anthropic’s new Computer Use capability
Two big announcements from Anthropic today: a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and a new API mode that they are calling computer use. (They also pre-announced 3.5 Haiku, but that’s …
·simonwillison.net·
Initial explorations of Anthropic’s new Computer Use capability