My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog

A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve...

Designing a next-generation reasoning model

The first generation of reasoning models brought us inference-time scaling and intrigue in seeing into what can be called the reasoning process of a language model. The second generation of reasoning models are going to bring us new types of agentic language modeling...

The Myth of Automated Learning – by Nicholas Carr

Among the general public, generative AI’s most enthusiastic early adopters have been students. Surveys conducted a year ago revealed that nearly 90 percent of college students and more than 50 percent of high-schoolers were regularly using chatbots for schoolwork....