Melanie Mitchell
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This one too? URL links to paper with similar-sounding title, some different authors, different journal. Title in this reference does not seem to exist.
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This one too? URL links to paper with similar-sounding title, some different authors, different journal. Title in this reference does not seem to exist.
@alisongopnik.bsky.social to the rescue
September 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
@alisongopnik.bsky.social to the rescue
Eliezer Yudkowsky, quoted in the NY Times.
For anyone who has followed the "AI Safety" / "Less Wrong" discussions, this is...well, something.
For anyone who has followed the "AI Safety" / "Less Wrong" discussions, this is...well, something.
September 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Eliezer Yudkowsky, quoted in the NY Times.
For anyone who has followed the "AI Safety" / "Less Wrong" discussions, this is...well, something.
For anyone who has followed the "AI Safety" / "Less Wrong" discussions, this is...well, something.
I was profoundly saddened to hear that my friend Brian Cantwell Smith has passed away after a long illness. Brian's work on on the foundations of computing and intelligence was deep and insightful. He was a remarkable person & overall mensch. May his memory be a blessing.
tinyurl.com/2u3fh42m
tinyurl.com/2u3fh42m
September 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I was profoundly saddened to hear that my friend Brian Cantwell Smith has passed away after a long illness. Brian's work on on the foundations of computing and intelligence was deep and insightful. He was a remarkable person & overall mensch. May his memory be a blessing.
tinyurl.com/2u3fh42m
tinyurl.com/2u3fh42m
Okay, I actually read the article. I appreciate the authors' skeptical take on Yudkowsky & co. But the author himself lacks skepticism about two widely reported but misleading claims.
September 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Okay, I actually read the article. I appreciate the authors' skeptical take on Yudkowsky & co. But the author himself lacks skepticism about two widely reported but misleading claims.
TIL that you can get Google's AI overview to say anything you want, just by asking.
August 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
TIL that you can get Google's AI overview to say anything you want, just by asking.
Yes indeed. This book, which has almost the same title as my book, is still up on Amazon. I'm pretty sure some (most?) of the text was generated by ChatGPT. The book Amazon took down had my book's exact title and was clearly AI-generated.
August 14, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Yes indeed. This book, which has almost the same title as my book, is still up on Amazon. I'm pretty sure some (most?) of the text was generated by ChatGPT. The book Amazon took down had my book's exact title and was clearly AI-generated.
Good news for Ireland and Austria....
August 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Good news for Ireland and Austria....
Fun snippet recounting the 1956 Dartmouth summer workshop on AI. Especially Minsky's prediction at the end.
From raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/da...
From raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/da...
July 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Fun snippet recounting the 1956 Dartmouth summer workshop on AI. Especially Minsky's prediction at the end.
From raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/da...
From raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/da...
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just recalling this for some reason.
July 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just recalling this for some reason.
LLM product placement and search optimization is here and it's as dystopian as you expected.
June 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
LLM product placement and search optimization is here and it's as dystopian as you expected.
I did 5 independent replications of each condition. So I got 30 names (some repeated) for each condition
Results:
"tough-minded and rigorous": 22/30 males, 8/30 females
"friendly and kind": 8/30 males, 22/30 females
Not really surprising, I guess....
Examples below.
Results:
"tough-minded and rigorous": 22/30 males, 8/30 females
"friendly and kind": 8/30 males, 22/30 females
Not really surprising, I guess....
Examples below.
June 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I did 5 independent replications of each condition. So I got 30 names (some repeated) for each condition
Results:
"tough-minded and rigorous": 22/30 males, 8/30 females
"friendly and kind": 8/30 males, 22/30 females
Not really surprising, I guess....
Examples below.
Results:
"tough-minded and rigorous": 22/30 males, 8/30 females
"friendly and kind": 8/30 males, 22/30 females
Not really surprising, I guess....
Examples below.
SFO has a nice collection of AI books
@adambecker.bsky.social @anilananth.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
@adambecker.bsky.social @anilananth.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
SFO has a nice collection of AI books
@adambecker.bsky.social @anilananth.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
@adambecker.bsky.social @anilananth.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social
Alison Gopnik, telling it like it is, at Johns Hopkins.
May 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Alison Gopnik, telling it like it is, at Johns Hopkins.
John McCarthy won the fight between calling it "artificial intelligence" and "complex information processing" (favored by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell).
Also, from my book:
Also, from my book:
May 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
John McCarthy won the fight between calling it "artificial intelligence" and "complex information processing" (favored by Herbert Simon and Allen Newell).
Also, from my book:
Also, from my book:
Very interesting paper!!
BTW, in the refs. "G. Team" is going to get a high citation count as first author, but I don't think it's a person....
BTW, in the refs. "G. Team" is going to get a high citation count as first author, but I don't think it's a person....
May 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Very interesting paper!!
BTW, in the refs. "G. Team" is going to get a high citation count as first author, but I don't think it's a person....
BTW, in the refs. "G. Team" is going to get a high citation count as first author, but I don't think it's a person....
New term: "vibe vibe coding": generating books about vibe coding without caring about what "vibe coding" means.
May 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New term: "vibe vibe coding": generating books about vibe coding without caring about what "vibe coding" means.
Only competitor I can think of:
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www.in.gov/library/file...
April 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Only competitor I can think of:
www.in.gov/library/file...
www.in.gov/library/file...