‘I think there are some professions where it matters that it’s a human that’s doing it. Emotionally, you want to feel cared for by another human being – not by a chatbot.’
Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and the future of work, on the podcast.
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Hopefully they'll try harder in the final game of the season
“One leading private credit firm, Blue Owl, has restricted withdrawals from its tech fund as investors have sought to redeem $1.2 billion in assets. Many of these investors are pension funds.”
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‘It’s still hard to comprehend that something as central as programming to the digital revolution that made so many of those jobs obsolete could itself be consigned to history.’
Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and coding.
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‘My experience of working with the ageing IT infrastructure of the NHS means that I find it hard to believe that the fixes Project Glasswing identifies will quickly find their way onto every computer that needs to be protected.’
@paul3548.bsky.social on AI and coding.
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‘I am curious to meet Mythos. The engineers who tested it say they were struck by how often it referred to the work of the cultural theorist Mark Fisher and to the philosopher Thomas Nagel.’
Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and programming.
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‘Overdiagnosis isn’t only a problem in screening; it is a possibility wherever a diagnosis brings harms as well as benefits.’
Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on overdiagnosis.
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‘One very simple way to address a language model’s deficiencies in problem-solving is to express problems not as exercises in reasoning but in the generation of language.’
Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek and problem-solving AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’
Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...
Non-performance from Crystal Palace. When this happens in other leagues we complain.
‘Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve found the best way of thinking about the problem, what’s the next step, how best to make use of the agent’s capabilities.’
Paul Taylor on AI and coding.
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