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AI Snake Oil
13 min read
Fact checking Moravec's paradox
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
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Last Week in AI
2 min read
LWiAI Podcast #232 - ChatGPT Ads, Thinking Machines Drama, STEM
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, The Drama at Thinking Machines, STEM: Scaling Transformers with Embedding Modules
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Last Week in AI
1 min read
Last Week in AI #333 - ChatGPT Ads, Zhipu+Huawei, Drama at Thinking Machines
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance, The Drama at Thinking Machines Is Riveting Silicon…
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Last Week in AI
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LWiAI Podcast #231 - Claude Cowork, Anthropic $10B, Deep Delta Learning
Anthropic’s new Cowork tool, Anthropic Raising $10 Billion at $350 Billion Value, Deep Delta Learning
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Last Week in AI #332 - Apple + Gemini, OpenAI + Cerebras, Claude Cowork
Google’s Gemini to power Apple’s AI features like Siri, OpenAI signs deal worth $10B for compute from Cerebras, and more!
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LWiAI Podcast #230 - 2025 Retrospective, Nvidia buys Groq, GLM 4.7, METR
Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, Meta Buys AI Startup Manus, Z.AI launches GLM-4.7
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Last Week in AI
1 min read
Last Week in AI #331 - Nvidia announcements, Grok bikini prompts, RAISE Act
Nvidia Details New A.I. Chips and Autonomous Car Project, Grok is undressing anyone, NY passes AI regulation
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Last Week in AI
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LWiAI Podcast #229 - Gemini 3 Flash, ChatGPT Apps, Nemotron 3
Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, ChatGPT launches an app store, Introducing GPT-5.2-Codex
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Last Week in AI #330 - Groq->Nvidia , ChatGPT Apps, US AI Genesis Mission
Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record, OpenAI opens ChatGPT to third-party apps via its Platform, and more!
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AI Snake Oil
28 min read
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter
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AI Snake Oil
31 min read
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
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AI Snake Oil
22 min read
AGI is not a milestone
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
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AI Snake Oil
91 min read
AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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AI Snake Oil
19 min read
Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
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AI Snake Oil
12 min read
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
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AI Snake Oil
16 min read
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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AI Snake Oil
8 min read
FAQ about the book and our writing process
What's in the book and how we wrote it
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AI Snake Oil
6 min read
Can AI automate computational reproducibility?
A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
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AI Snake Oil
7 min read
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online
The book was published September 2024
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AI Snake Oil
10 min read
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
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AI Snake Oil
28 min read
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
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AI Snake Oil
7 min read
New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
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AI Snake Oil
8 min read
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype