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2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich

Philip Goff: Panpsychism as a Theory of Consciousness

🔮 From ChatGPT to a billion agents

Some Changes at The Gradient

Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

Jacob Andreas: Language, Grounding, and World Models

Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents

Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment

Update #83: AI Music Fraud and PlanSearch

Mini-Update #47: First International AI Safety Treaty and the WavTokenizer Codec

What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

Davidad Dalrymple: Towards Provably Safe AI

Clive Thompson: Tales of Technology

Update #82: AI Lawsuits and SOPHON

Judy Fan: Reverse Engineering the Human Cognitive Toolkit

Mini-Update #46: OpenAI-Condé Nast Partnership and Flexible Perception

L.M. Sacasas: The Questions Concerning Technology

Update #81: The EU AI Act's Enforcement and Self-Taught Evaluators

Pete Wolfendale: The Revenge of Reason

Mini-Update #45: OpenAI Security Breach and Accessible Diffusion Models

We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

Peter Lee: Computing Theory and Practice, and GPT-4's Impact

Update #80: Kamala Harris's AI Policy and End-To-End Causal Effect Estimation from Unstructured Natural Language Data

Manuel & Lenore Blum: The Conscious Turing Machine

Kevin Dorst: Against Irrationalist Narratives

Update #79: Does AI Music Have a Future? Can Vision-Language Models See?

David Pfau: Manifold Factorization and AI for Science

Mini-Update #44: OpenAI Security Breach and Accessible Diffusion Models

Dan Hart and Michelle Michael: Bringing AI to Students in New South Wales

Update #78: Accelerating Candy Crush Development and Neural Network Flexibility

Kristin Lauter: Private AI, Homomorphic Encryption, and AI for Cryptography

Mini-Update #43: OpenAI buys Rockset and Diffusion on Syntax Trees for Code Generation

Sergiy Nesterenko: Automating Circuit Board Design

Update #77: AI-Generated News Cannibalizes Journalism and Open-Endedness for Superintelligence

C. Thi Nguyen: Values, Legibility, and Gamification

Vivek Natarajan: Towards Biomedical AI

Update #76: Directed-Energy Weapons and Epistemic Risks of AI in Science

Mini-Update #42: Google Removes AI Overviews and Attention Recast as RNN

Thomas Mullaney: A Global History of the Information Age

Seth Lazar: Normative Philosophy of Computing

Update #75: A Bad Week for AI Worriers, and The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

Suhail Doshi: The Future of Computer Vision

Mini-Update #41: OpenAI Unveils GPT-4o and Online Iterative RLHF

Azeem Azhar: The Exponential View

Update #74: Detecting Postpartum Depression and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Longtermism

Mini-Update #40: NIST Launches GenAI and Lifelike Facial Mimicking

Ryan Tibshirani: Statistics, Nonparametric Regression, Conformal Prediction

Update #73: Against Language Erasure and Better Long-Context Benchmarking

Financial Market Applications of LLMs

Sasha Luccioni: Connecting the Dots Between AI's Environmental and Social Impacts

Mini-Update #39: 2024 AI Index Report and Autonomous Driving Detection

Michael Sipser: Problems in the Theory of Computation

Update #72: NYC's Unfortunate Chatbot and Mixture-of-Depths

A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI

Mini-Update #38: OpenAI's Voice Engine and LDM Scaling

Andrew Lee: How AI will Shape the Future of Email

Mamba Explained

Joss Fong: Videomaking, AI, and Science Communication

Update #71: Neuralink's First Human Trial and Controlling Language Model Hallucinations

Mini-Update #37: xAI's Open Source Grok and Apple's MM1

Kate Park: Data Engines for Vision and Language

Ben Wellington: ML for Finance and Storytelling through Data

Mini-Update #36: Claude 3 and 1-bit LLMs

Update #70: Apple Shutters Autonomous EV Project and Griffin + Hawk Compete with Transformers

Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen?

Venkatesh Rao: Protocols, Intelligence, and Scaling

Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?

Sasha Rush: Building Better NLP Systems

Update #69: Gemini Overcompensates for Bias and Missing Details in Sora

Mini-Update #35: Sora and Gemini 1.5 Announcements

Why Doesn’t My Model Work?

Cameron Jones & Sean Trott: Understanding, Grounding, and Reference in LLMs

Nicholas Thompson: AI and Journalism

Update #68: Whispering Indigenous Languages and Neural Net Training Dynamics

Subbarao Kambhampati: Planning, Reasoning, and Interpretability in the Age of LLMs

Mini-Update #34: Taylor Swift Deepfakes and Efficient Exploration for LLMs

Russ Maschmeyer: Spatial Commerce and AI in Retail

Update #67: AI Confuses Elections and Conversational Diagnostic AI

Benjamin Breen: The Intersecting Histories of Psychedelics and AI Research

Mini-Update #33: OpenAI's Crowdsourced Governance and Self-Rewarding Language Models

Ted Gibson: The Structure and Purpose of Language

Update #66: SAG-AFTRA's Voice Cloning Deal and Sleeper Agents

Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells

Harvey Lederman: Propositional Attitudes and Reference in Language Models

Eric Jang: AI is Good For You

A Year in Review: 2023