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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…

If it holds up, the antiquity of Luca seems to overturn some earlier arguments for why the universe is largely lifeless. “These have been based on the evidence that it took about a billion years for life to emerge on Earth, meaning that these early steps were hard and/or unlikely,” says Donoghue. But a 4.2bn-year-old…

la conviction de John Stuart Mill, rappelée en 1919 par Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, est mise à mal par le développement des plateformes. Lorsque des informations non vérifiées ou délibérément fausses sur le Covid ou l’assaut du Capitole se répandent massivement, le « marché des idées » reste-t-il vertueux ? Une question essentielle se pose : où se situe…

transformer les objets et les occurrences les plus banales en hiéroglyphes qui composent un autre texte que celui qu’offre la réalité. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2020/07/28/twin-peaks-le-livre-des-morts-de-david-lynch_6047523_3451060.html

The great American film-maker died this week, leaving behind a body of work unmatched in its seductive strangeness and transcendent mystery. We put it in order — Read on www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/17/david-lynch-films-and-tv-shows-ranked