Stories by tejohnso

Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US

17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Transform the Electric Car Industry (2022)

Curta

Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming [pdf]

Hypothetical Planet X

Things That Don't Work

100-foot 'walking tree' in New Zealand

Meta's Dangerously Carefree AI Chief

RBC: Rounding, leap-year, and day-count averaging errors result in discrepancies

Yes, AIs 'Understand' Things

Google to pause Gemini after AI refuses to show images of White people

Country pride: what I learned growing up in rural America

Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI

OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks

Is Chess a Waste of Time?

Lake Nyos Disaster

Do heat pumps work in cold climates?

AI Homework

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