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…
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 (...
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 …
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.
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...
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 …
New prompt injection papers: Agents Rule of Two and The Attacker Moves Second
Two interesting new papers regarding LLM security and prompt injection came to my attention this weekend. Agents Rule of Two: A Practical Approach to AI Agent Security The first is …
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 …
My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends
The Oxide and Friends podcast has an annual tradition of asking guests to share their predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years. Here’s 2022, 2023 and 2024. This …
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 …
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 …
NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google’s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now. It generates a one-off custom podcast against content you provide, where …
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 …
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 …