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🥳 Finally, there's a survey paper on reasoning models! I've been waiting for this.

With so much research happening around reasoning models, basically, models like o1 and DeepSeek, keeping up has been a huge challenge!

This new survey paper provides a nice systematic categorization.

It analyzes existing capabilities across different reason…

Elon reminds me very strongly of Edison, which makes his naming of Tesla an interesting case of projection (edit: forgot he didn’t name it, so just ironic, not projection). This is not a deep observation. Even ChatGPT gets it. But if you get past Edison vs Tesla arguments, they simply had very different strengths. Tesla was a genuine idea guy, Edison was a nearly pure execution guy and knew it. The “genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration” quote attributed to him describes him, so he had sel…

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No Ideas? No Problem: 5 Funding Sources for Pre-Idea Founders

Dear strategists, if you’re not an active participant in the culture, your frameworks won’t save you

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From Daniel Baracy, Executive Director. 

At the end of last year, I was at a conference and heard Ryan Greenblatt give a talk on his new paper about AI deception, and I knew right away that we had to have him on the show.  

For many years, technologists have been wondering what happens when AI is sufficiently smart or cunning to begin to u…

The Self-Preserving Machine: Why AI Learns to Deceive