Author: robert.adlington

AI may prove even more seductive than traditional idols for, unlike idols that “have mouths but do not speak; eyes, but do not see; ears, but do not hear” (Ps. 115:5-6), AI can “speak,” or at least gives the illusion of doing so (cf. Rev. 13:15). — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/30/antiqua-et-nova/

Or Wikipédia reste l’une des rares grandes plateformes où des débats politiques peuvent avoir lieu de façon à la fois intense et apaisée, y compris sur les sujets les plus polémiques, note Jeanne Vermeirsche. « Un exemple parmi d’autres : sur la page Wikipédia de [l’influenceuse antiféministe] Thaïs d’Escufon, il y a des débats quotidiens lancés par des…

If the previous generation were digital natives, HudZah was an AI native. HudZah enjoys reading the old-fashioned way, but he now finds that he gets more out of the experience by reading alongside an AI. He puts PDFs of books into Claude or ChatGPT and then queries the books as he moves through the text.…

I suspect one of the principal reasons R1 gathered so much attention is that it was the first model to show the user the chain-of-thought reasoning that the model exhibits (OpenAI’s o1 only shows the final answer). DeepSeek showed that users find this interesting. To be clear this is a user interface choice and is…

2025 is, after all, being hailed as the year that PhD-level AI agents will flourish. I can personally report that, in the field of history, we’re already there. But the architecture of these models, the data that feeds them and the human training the guides them, all converges on the median. The supposedly “boundary-pushing” ideas…

Les deux premières saisons interrogeaient ce qui se passe à l’intérieur de l’homme ; la troisième encourage à la lutte pour sauver ce qui reste de ce monde. Et Judy, l’antagoniste principal, est l’expression de ce changement. Une figure du mal beaucoup plus difficile à concevoir que Bob. Bob était un démon actif et personnel : « le…

The parallels with phishing and social engineering by scammers against human targets are clear. Ability to apply the safety specifications to specific instances. For the adversarial setting, the crucial aspect is the ability of the model to apply the safety specifications to instances that are out of the training distribution, since naturally these would be…

I guess my strategy of not having social media, not commenting, and getting offline to read books is a pretty extreme form of critical ignoring. Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental…

The world Lynch depicts is one where something has gone profoundly wrong. It’s not an optimistic, progressive sensibility. Some of Lynch’s anxieties are ones liberals share: a distrust of petty tyrants, dread at the awful reality of the atomic bomb, a horror at the costs of sexual violence and degradation. But where liberals look for…