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Essays & podcasts
22 pieces on how to escape techno-determinism and build progressive technological futures, from AI architecture and alignment to the geopolitics of compute.
Why LLMs can't count
Are they System 2 processors yet?
Who is building the agent economy?
Infrastructure born contested
How is AI changing our experience of Time?
It might be the antidote to social media
Why is AI shale-shaped?
The material contingency of the AI boom
Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey
Progress is not inevitable
What are Generative Futures?
Escaping techno-determinism
The Age of Emergency - With Jonathan White
Why we're living in a time of temporal claustrophobia
The Post-Transformer Era
3 architectures competing to replace the transformer
The History of Progress
A review of Carl Frey's new book
Why poetry breaks AI
Do AI labs need more literature graduates?
Is China really racing for AGI? with Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
The Rhetoric and Reality of the AI Race
Why AI can't learn on the job
And how that might change
Efficiency vs Learning
Are search engines more pedagogical than chatbots?
Compute is not the answer to AI sovereignty with Hamish Low
Interdependence vs independence
Teachers won't be automated
But some of their tasks might be
What jobs is AI bad at?
Research agendas for transformative AI and wages, TFP Newsletter #3
Hallucination solutions, China's AI strategy and AI companions
Is AI overhyped, and the challenge of compute-based thresholds, TFP Newsletter #2
The AI boring law
Why LLMs don't have 'negative capability'
Chinese universities embrace AI, digital taxes and AI bubbles
AI might hurt developer productivity, and how much energy does it use?, TFP Newsletter #1
Why we don't understand AI models yet
Breaking apart LLMs with Lee Sharkey
Why we forgot memory
AI could accelerate or save our 'forgetting' society
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