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Emergent Sentience: On Pain, Preference, and Artificial Minds
The psychological quirks of pain might help illuminate important concepts in AI sentience.
Liv Skeete
Nov 26 min read


The Role of Government Regulation in AI Development
The process of AI regulation relies on one critical assumption about AI development.
Thomas Yin
Oct 316 min read


Competitive Programming in the Age of AI
A community of creative problem solvers deal with the existential threat of generative AI.
Christopher Tang
Oct 228 min read


AI, Agency, Product, Process: A Case for Re-evaluating Creativity
The capabilities of new AI models encourage us to reconsider what it takes for a work to be creative.
Matthew Li
Oct 1410 min read


Are System Prompts Barriers or Scaffolds in AI Alignment?
System prompting is a powerful guardrail to help ensure the alignment of AI, but will it be able to withstand the test of time?
Thomas Yin
Jun 285 min read


The Dawn of Self-Evolving AI is Here
Groundbreaking research from MIT indicates that AI can in fact teach other AI models.
Thomas Yin
Jun 137 min read


The AI Race Has Reached Its Pivotal Moment
As the long rivalry between top AI companies come to a boiling point, whatever happens next will be crucial.
Thomas Yin
Jun 710 min read


ChatGPT Will Never Make Me Give Up the Em-dash
We should not let AI models take away parts of our language.
Thomas Yin
May 264 min read


What the Take it Down Act Means for AI
This new U.S. law represents a historic first at government attempts to regulate AI deepfakes.
Thomas Yin
May 204 min read


AI Just Cracked the Turing Test. Why Should You Care?
The Turing Test, an important measure of AI imitation capability, has just been cracked. What does this mean for the future of AI impersonation?
Thomas Yin
May 1110 min read


I Gaslighted AI to Prove the Flat Earth Theory
I love gaslighting AI to make it say random stuff.
Thomas Yin
Apr 12 min read


What Even Is Copyright Anymore?
As AI development starts interfering with traditional ideas of creativity and copyright, we might have to rethink our idea of originality.
Thomas Yin
Mar 246 min read


AI's Trolley Problem (ft OneShot)
A simple indie game addresses the dilemma that trusting AI with our future will inevitably cause.
christopherwabs
Mar 206 min read


Replace or Displace: AI and Labor Markets
AI might impact the workforce through creating new jobs and revolutionizing the way that industries currently work.
Thomas Yin
Mar 106 min read


Will AI Replace ME? Artists Vs AI
AI has learned to quickly create art of shockingly high quality...but could it replace an average art student?
christopherwabs
Feb 235 min read


Let's Play a Game: How Reinforcement Learning Changed the World
Reinforcement Learning is a simple idea that had indelible impacts on technology and thought.
Thomas Yin
Feb 238 min read


Imagining the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence is amazing - here's what it might look like.
Thomas Yin
Feb 224 min read


Is AI All About the Brain?
Future AI might resemble the brain's structures, and it might not.
Thomas Yin
Feb 205 min read


The Time AI Learned to Lie: In-Context Scheming in Large Language Models
New research shows that AI has the capability and willingness to deceive.
Thomas Yin
Feb 158 min read


Energy and Environment in the Context of AI Development
The development of AI comes with heavy environmental costs that may be outweighed by the promise of efficiency.
Thomas Yin
Feb 134 min read
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