Weeknotes 319 - reasoning performances
A holiday edition with a raw list of news captures, in the week that o3 is introduced as reasoning performing AI impersonator.
Hi, y’all!
This week there is not a regular newsletter due to the holidays.
I have been collecting interesting articles during the week, so I share these as is without context. Next week, a regular edition again!
Happy holidays!
PS: the videos of talks of TH/NGS 2024 are up (playlist):
Notions from the news
The Power of Critical Sensemaking in Shaping Futures
As 2024 draws to a close, we’re foraging for the right note to end things on.
Superflux
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
Ethan Mollick
Human-AI partnerships
OpenAI teases new reasoning model—but don’t expect to try it soon
OpenAI shows off its next frontier model.
🔥 Beyond human: OpenAI’s o3 wake up call
A reasoning breakthrough arrives months - not years - after its predecessor. Here’s why we need to talk
Azeem Azhar
𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀
Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAI’s rollout that he joked “of course they have to announce AGI the day my vacation starts”.
Gary Marcus
Narrative jailbreaking for fun and profit
Posted on Monday 23 Dec 2024. 1,634 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.
FACTS Grounding: A new benchmark for evaluating the factuality of large language models
Our comprehensive benchmark and online leaderboard offer a much-needed measure of how accurately LLMs ground their responses in provided source material and avoid hallucinations
FACTS team
Robotic performances
Sophia, a famous robot and global icon of AI, wins hearts at Zimbabwe’s innovation fair
Sophia, a world-renowned robot, has been the center of attention at an Artificial Intelligence and Innovation fair in Zimbabwe this week.
FARAI MUTSAKA
Will we ever trust robots?
If most robots still need remote human operators to be safe and effective, why should we welcome them into our homes?
James O’Donnell
Comparing video generation AI to slicing steak, including Veo 2
by u/world_designer in singularity
Immersive connectedness
Home Assistant’s new voice assistant answers to ‘Hey Jarvis’
Now you can ask Jarvis to turn off your lights.
Apple is working on a doorbell camera with Face ID
You could unlock your house just by looking at it.
Tech societies
Bitcoin would need over 300 days of downtime to adequately defend itself from the ‘imminent’ threat of quantum computing, research finds
“Bringing your technology down…can be very, very costly, even if it’s on for a few minutes or a few hours.”
Sasha Rogelberg
What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk?
The question we’ll all be asking over the next year or more.
Noah Smith
‘We’re figuring out cool ways of storytelling’: how TikTok is changing the way we watch musicals
Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical sensation Epic is just one of a series of works making a splash on the online platform
James Tapper
EDPB opinion on AI models: GDPR principles support responsible AI | European Data Protection Board
Almost All Leading Large Language Models Show Signs of Mild Cognitive Impairment: Study | Sci.News
With the exception of ChatGPT 4o, almost all publicly available large language models subjected to a test called the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) showed signs of mild cognitive impairment.
News Staff
Up-Shift and Fan Out
Those interested in building on the Bluesky protocol may want to apply to this new grant program.
Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
Arvind Narayanan
Digital twins of human organs are here. They’re set to transform medical treatment.
The models can be used to plan surgeries and in the future could be used to help trial new drugs.
Jessica Hamzelou
America is losing the physical technologies of the future
Electrical technology isn’t just a climate thing. It’s about national power and prosperity.
Noah Smith
🎧 How AI Will Change Science Forever
Machine learning researcher Alice Albrecht on how AI is making science personalized and data-driven
Dan Shipper
2024 > 2025
2024 in wearables: the year of the smart ring
2024 put a smart ring on it.
2024: The year humanoids woke up - The Robot Report
Humanoids empowered by AI are coming, and the long-term market could be huge, Persona AI’s Nic Radford tells columnist Oliver Mitchell.
Oliver Mitchell
TOP 10 personal tech and gadgets of 2024
explore our top 10 personal technologies and gadgets of 2024, including huawei’s tri-screen smartphone mate XT.
matthew burgos | designboom
15 predictions for 2025
PLUS: What I got right and wrong about 2024
Casey Newton
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025
OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Gary Marcus
Paper for the week
Tomlinson, B., Black, R.W., Patterson, D.J. et al. The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans. Sci Rep 14, 3732 (2024).
