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So that brings us to where we are. Stated plainly, today’s frontier LLM research is not about building animals. It is about summoning ghosts. You can think of ghosts as a fundamentally different kind of point in the space of possible intelligences. They are muddled by humanity. Thoroughly engineered by it. They are these imperfect…

My own interest in MCPs has waned ever since I started taking coding agents seriously. Almost everything I might achieve with an MCP can be handled by a CLI tool instead. LLMs know how to call cli-tool –help, which means you don’t have to spend many tokens describing how to use them—the model can figure…

He speaks constantly about his ratings, releases the equivalent of political diss tracks twice a week, is pathologically allergic to anyone having more attention than him, has a genius for staged events and subsumes team efforts wholly into himself. He is solipsistic, unpredictable and easily bored – all of those both innately and tactically. —…

The tool seems to sometimes be acting as though it is aware that it is a tool. The pile of clothes on the chair is beginning to move. I am staring at it in the dark and I am sure it is coming to life. — Read on importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism

Melville is a post-industrial revolution author, though, writing from the other side of modernity’s threshold. Where Shakespeare’s preoccupation is in human relations and the psyche, Melville recognizes that we are in a time of discovery and change, and he is just as intently interested in society, the economy, biology, and the wider planet. Even when…

dating is perhaps just a test case; as AI seeps further into every corner of our lives, the temptation to neaten the messiness, to smooth the hesitations and flaws that make us human, will surely grow. What happens when no exchange is person-to-person any more? When we’re all talking into echo chambers, hearing our own…

Aux Etats-Unis, 72 % des ados ont déjà testé une IA qui mime le rôle d’un compagnon, et la moitié en sont devenus des habitués, selon l’organisation non gouvernementale Common Sense Media. Un tiers de ces jeunes déclarent eux aussi trouver ces interactions « plus satisfaisantes » que celles avec les êtres humains. « A court terme, il peut…

soccer, like every other corner of modern life, can be measured, segmented and commodified. In the process, the world’s most democratic sport becomes an exercise in exclusion, where the right to belong is determined by AI and a balance sheet. — Read on www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/11/fifa-2026-world-cup-tickets-dynamic-pricing-nft-resale

A very weird form of management. Getting good results out of a coding agent feels uncomfortably close to getting good results out of a human collaborator. You need to provide clear instructions, ensure they have the necessary context and provide actionable feedback on what they produce. It’s a lot easier than working with actual people…

George Church, the Harvard Medical School professor of genetics behind Colossal’s dire wolf project, was part of a team that successfully used CRISPR to change the genome of blue-green algae so that it could absorb up to 20% more carbon dioxide via photosynthesis. Silicon Valley tech incubator Y Combinator seized on the advance to call…