When I first started working in AI, which was 1999, we deliberately didn’t call it AI because the term had been so overhyped previously and disappointed. We talked about “decision support systems” in… (View Post)

Thank God that JD Vance and Donald Trump aren’t like that. We can be confident that they aren’t vindictively blackballing people who pointed out their dishonesty. (View Post)

This talk of the Replication Crisis is somewhat overblown and outdated. There are some serious problems, but science has faced the matter and practice has improved. We look for publication bias in sy… (View Post)

Yeah, but that’s bollocks. LLMs generate text. That text might seem to indicate all sorts of things, but it’s just generated text. That’s the key point about the Anthropic paper: they can actually ma… (View Post)

Trump has cut science funding by about three quarters. He's not interested in helping the universities. Vance is lying, as he does about most things. (View Post)