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Lab vs. Life: Dissecting “AI as Normal Technology”
What if AGI Can't Be Developed in an Ivory Tower?
May 30
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Steve Newman
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Lab vs. Life: Dissecting “AI as Normal Technology”
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When Decades Become Days: Dissecting AI 2027
The Four Requirements for a Short AI Timeline
May 21
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Steve Newman
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When Decades Become Days: Dissecting AI 2027
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Announcing the Golden Gate Institute for AI
And why "Am I Stronger Yet?" is now "Second Thoughts"
May 9
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Steve Newman
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Announcing the Golden Gate Institute for AI
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April 2025
First, They Came for the Software Engineers…
What 25 interviews tell us about AI's messy impact on tech work
Apr 29
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TarenSK
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First, They Came for the Software Engineers…
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Finally, A Way to Measure AI Progress; Everyone's Misreading It
That METR Study Doesn’t Say "AGI in 5 Years"
Apr 24
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Steve Newman
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Finally, A Way to Measure AI Progress; Everyone's Misreading It
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February 2025
If AGI Means Everything People Do... What is it That People Do?
And Why Are Today’s "PhD" AIs So Hard To Apply To Everyday Tasks?
Feb 27
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Steve Newman
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If AGI Means Everything People Do... What is it That People Do?
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We're Finding Out What Humans are Bad At
AI Advances Fastest When We Find Unnatural Ways of Doing Things
Feb 18
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Steve Newman
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We're Finding Out What Humans are Bad At
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January 2025
China’s DeepSeek Adds a Weird New Data Point to The AI Race
V3 and R1 are Impressive Work, With Many Implications – but not "China Has Caught Up"
Jan 30
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Steve Newman
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China’s DeepSeek Adds a Weird New Data Point to The AI Race
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Are We on the Brink of AGI?
A Tale of Two Timelines
Jan 6
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Steve Newman
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Are We on the Brink of AGI?
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The Important Thing About AGI is the Impact, Not the Name
Reality Doesn't Care How We Interpret the Words "General Intelligence"
Jan 3
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Steve Newman
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The Important Thing About AGI is the Impact, Not the Name
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December 2024
LLMs Fight With Both Hands Tied Behind Their Back
We use tools large and small for everything we do; LLMs mostly can't (yet)
Dec 27, 2024
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Steve Newman
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The Black Spatula Project: Day Five
Off to a Roaring Start
Dec 24, 2024
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Steve Newman
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The Black Spatula Project: Day Five
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