They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I. – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/science/ai-scoop-young-mathematicians.html
Posts Tagged ‘gpt3’
They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I. – The New York Times
June 13, 2026Introducing new capabilities to GPT-Rosalind | OpenAI
June 4, 2026https://openai.com/index/introducing-new-capabilities-to-gpt-rosalind/ can req. access via a form
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
May 17, 2026Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) – The New York Times
May 16, 2026https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/ai-students-cheating-homework-classrooms.html QT:{{” Instead, in a rapid shift, teachers are requiring students to write inside the classroom, where they can be observed. Assignments have changed too, with some educators prompting students to reflect on their personal reactions to what they’ve learned and read — the type of writing that A.I. struggles to credibly produce. “}}
What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either
April 19, 2026What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either
QT:{{” When the model predicts the next word, it is not doing so just on the basis of the words that came before. It is also “keeping in mind” all the words that might plausibly come after. It predicts the immediate future in the light of its predictions of the more distant future. Anthropic’s techniques verify this. When Batson clicked on the words “grab it,” at the end of the prompt, the network lit up with possibilities for not only the next word (“His”) but also those on the more distant horizon—the endgame of “habit” or “rabbit.” Batson compared Claude to a veteran backpacker on the Appalachian Trail: “Experienced through-hikers know to mail themselves peanut butter at some further stage. What the model is doing is like mailing itself the peanut butter of ‘rabbit.’ ”
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NYTimes: Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
March 17, 2026QT:{{”
A 10 percent increase in Google’s “velocity” may seem underwhelming, Salva noted, given the hoopla around A.I. “We have collectively — both in the software industry as well as in the media — oh, my God, created a hype cycle,” he had told me when we first talked, last summer in New York.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/magazine/ai-coding-programming-jobs-claude-chatgpt.html
Opinion | Are A.I. Bots Plotting a Revolution on Moltbook? Or Just Telling Stories?
February 15, 2026Opinion | Are A.I. Bots Plotting a Revolution on Moltbook? Or Just Telling Stories? – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/opinion/ai-agents-moltbook.html
AI Is Being Used to Find Valuable Commodities in Our Trash – The Wall Street Journal.
January 31, 2026https://www.wsj.com/business/ai-is-being-used-to-find-valuable-commodities-in-our-trash-6b7de5d7
interesting use of vision/sensors
If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
January 30, 2026QT:{{”
On a recent rotation, his professors asked his class to work through a case using A.I. tools such as ChatGPT and OpenEvidence, an
increasingly popular medical L.L.M. that provides free access to health-care professionals.
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