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Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals” – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZvyajciY
On Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast With Andrej Karpathy https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-podcast-with-andrej
A statement from Dario Amodei on Anthropic’s commitment to American AI leadership \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-dario-amodei-american-ai-leadership
I took the surviving syllabus of W. H. Auden’s 1941 “”Hardest Class in the Humanities”” (6,000 pages of reading, memorization of poems, etc.) & turned it into an annotated site with all the readings. (Would have taken hours, instead it was 4 prompts) Here: https://x.com/emollick/status/1979689783485161728
Today in @Nature, we published a breakthrough demonstration of verifiable quantum advantage using a measurement known as out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), or Quantum Echoes. Performed on our Willow chip, it paves a path toward real-world applications → https://x.com/GoogleQuantumAI/status/1981016219340648778
New breakthrough quantum algorithm published in @Nature today: Our Willow chip has achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage. Willow ran the algorithm – which we’ve named Quantum Echoes – 13,000x faster than the best classical algorithm on one of the world’s fastest https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1981013746698100811
The Quantum Echoes algorithm breakthrough https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/
NVIDIA shows off its first Blackwell wafer manufactured in the US https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/nvidia-shows-off-its-first-blackwell-wafer-manufactured-in-the-us-192836249.html
SAG-AFTRA, OpenAI, Bryan Cranston Collaborate to Ensure Voice and Likeness Protections in Sora 2 | SAG-AFTRA https://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-openai-bryan-cranston-collaborate-ensure-voice-and-likeness-protections-sora-2
Netflix is betting that AI augmentation beats AI replacement, and they might be fighting the last war. There’s basically two ways generative AI eats Hollywood: 1. The Netflix path – slip AI tools into the existing pipeline. Make VFX 10x faster, de-age actors without breaking https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1980903106943885694
🇨🇳 China just rolled out a mass-produced grenade drone. Foldable props. Infantry-ready. The battlefield just changed. Unlike most repurposed quadcopters, this model is designed from the ground up for combat. It can carry grenades, fold into a backpack, and integrate with https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1980673433546682574
.@karpathy says that LLMs currently lack the cultural accumulation and self-play that propelled humans out of the savannah: Culture: > “Why can’t an LLM write a book for the other LLMs? Why can’t other LLMs read this LLM’s book and be inspired by it, or shocked by it?” Self https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1980333945385562176
The most interesting part for me is where @karpathy describes why LLMs aren’t able to learn like humans. As you would expect, he comes up with a wonderfully evocative phrase to describe RL: “sucking supervision bits through a straw.” A single end reward gets broadcast across https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1979259041013731752
How to get 20,000 visitors per month with AI SEO: 1. Find 1000 keyword variations using Perplexity’s MCP 2. Claude Code builds and generates all pages 3. Each gets ~20 visits/month All automated. All targeted. Zero ad spend. (h/t @boringmarketer) https://x.com/startupideaspod/status/1957499676850270489
There are at least a dozen models of developers interacting with AI to code and since we don’t have a taxonomy of them, everything is “”vibecoding”” which can mean autonomous coding or 10x improvements in performance or the production of complete slop, depending on who says it.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1980078073589661956
Apple employees have ‘concerns’ over Siri performance in early iOS 26.4 builds: report – 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/19/apple-employees-concerned-by-early-ios-26-4-apple-intelligence-sir-version/
🤯 I’ll never forget the “”holy shit”” moment I had three years ago when I got a GPT-3 powered @LangChainAI agent to search the web for Leo DiCaprio’s current girlfriend and perform arithmetic on her age. I immediately knew LLMs would shake the foundations of software, and that”” / X https://x.com/Hacubu/status/1980683912096674144
If the OpenAI browser agent leaks my bank and Robinhood passwords, causing me to lose all my money, who is responsible?”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1980855677397659869
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai
nanochat now has a primordial identity and can talk a bit about itself and its capabilities (e.g. it knows it’s nanochat d32 that cost $800, that it was built by me, that it can’t speak languages other than English too well and why, etc.). This kind of customization is all done”” / X https://x.com/karpathy/status/1980665134415802554
One cannot show that turbojets are safe before actually building turbojets and carefully refining them for reliability. The same goes for AI.”” / X https://x.com/ylecun/status/1981360519442321451
A lot I like & some I don’t in this paper: Like: Clear definition of AGI, diverse authors, shows jaggedness, tracking metrics over time (huge leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5) Dislike: AGI defined as replicating a model of human cognition, benchmarks are scattershot, narrow view of AI https://x.com/emollick/status/1978874737892667718
I think a powerful point Andy made in his latest post is that AI operates at an industrial scale, and it is worth comparing its impact to other industries, not just households. Our policy choices are about which industries should get access to resources and in which locations.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1979293940718157868
The daily hype-and-doom AI swings on X, like so many other X things, does not reflect the real world. In companies I talk to, no one is following new developments or thinking of AGI. There is a steady accumulation of valuable use cases & efforts to adjust processes to get more.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1979555519041049057
It’s also scary to give an incompetent agent access to all my passwords and data. What if it goes crazy?”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1980847565819302116
I hope as we move past the first wave of AI criticism (“”it doesn’t work, all hype””) we get a new wave of AI criticism rooted in the fact that these systems are very powerful & quite useful and focusing a deep exploration of when AI uses are uplifting and when they are detrimental”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1978966933429973313
A focus on AGI (whatever it is) obscures the fact that we have increasing evidence from early results like GDPval that today’s AI models are good enough to create major transformations over 5-10 years as companies figure out how to deploy them and integrate them into processes. https://x.com/emollick/status/1979287090962788531
Given a very intelligent AI that can solve very hard problems, what profound question will you ask? https://x.com/emollick/status/1978995377488486803
Postponing Grokipedia v0.1 launch to end of week. We need to do more work to purge out the propaganda.”” / X https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1980340232194257090
Sneak Peek: Likeness Detection – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqQiBb0F-w
WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general-purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-changes-its-terms-to-bar-general-purpose-chatbots-from-its-platform/
One problem with having a lot of followers is that I can’t interact with some of the weirder bits of esoteric AI experimentation happening in strange corners of X for fear of ruining them by breaking their current joking/serious superposition through too much observation.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1980118960205885920
The Humanoid Hub on X: “Brett Adcock says Figure gets approached for military applications of its humanoids, but they’re not interested. Home and workforce applications are what get him excited. https://t.co/B8g7dQ09RW” / X
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1980320679296913742
What in the F is an AI factory? I had to investigate what the unelected @EU_Commission is talking about today So according to them, it’s some data centers (which they call supercomputers) in 6 different EU countries I checked out the most powerful one: Karolina, a Czech data https://x.com/levelsio/status/1981351393513615813
US chip plant investment to outpace China, Taiwan and South Korea from 2027 – Nikkei Asia https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/us-chip-plant-investment-to-outpace-china-taiwan-and-south-korea-from-2027
Reddit v. SerpApi et al | DocumentCloud https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26193527-reddit-v-serpapi-et-al/
Our Approach to Teen AI Safety: Empowering Parents, Protecting Teens https://about.fb.com/news/2025/10/teen-ai-safety-approach/
Human-centered AI | Microsoft Copilot Blog https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/blog/2025/10/23/human-centered-ai/
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/
Statement from OpenAI and King Estate, Inc. The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. (King, Inc.) and OpenAI have worked together to address how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s likeness is represented in Sora generations. Some users generated disrespectful depictions of Dr.”” / X https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/1979005850166648933
Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers | Brave https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/
Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/804660/reddit-suing-perplexity-data-scrapers-ai-lawsuit
Pinterest rolls out new tools to give users more control over GenAI content | Pinterest Newsroom https://newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pinterest-rolls-out-new-tools-to-give-users-more-control-over-gen-ai-content/
I think the “Erdos problem” blowup obscured the fact that multiple math professors have confirmed recently that yes, AI really can solve some open (but not yet major) problems in mathematics, with guidance The question is whether the ability of these models continues to increase”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1980801216729759934
The fallout from the fact that data science/classical machine learning & generative AI are both called “”AI”” has been remarkably broad & persistent. Policy addresses the wrong harms, companies have been confused about who should lead efforts, academic discussion is often muddled.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1981000395137921071
I wrote this piece in the Harvard Business Review in December, 2022, two weeks after ChatGPT was released (its seven pages, so these are the first two and last two). I think my predictions all played out, though I underestimated how good they would get at accurate math. https://x.com/emollick/status/1979573319121916037
Remarkable: if someone steals your model, you can catch them using only your training data order and their model’s predictions, even if they do a bunch of fine-tuning. This power traces to subtle, pervasive memorization patterns: the palimpsest.”” / X https://x.com/ChrisGPotts/status/1981739673077657832
Tomorrow https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1978885626255839419
Until recently, datacenters were able to simply repurpose the carcass left over from America’s deindustrialization. Honestly a compelling ode to capitalism. https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1981113646836306030
