2025-07-09
AI Agent Benchmarks Are Broken
Published on July 8, 2025 10:11 PM GMTWe find that many agentic benchmarks have issues with task setup or reward design, leading to under- or overestimation of agents' performance by...
Mecha-Hitler, Grok, and why it's so hard to give LLMs the right personality
Recently, xAIās Grok model made some very strange comments. In a now-deleted post, it suggested Adolf Hitler as the right person to deal with āanti-white hateā. It also pointed out...
uv cache prune
If you're running low on disk space and are a uv user, don't forget about uv cache prune: uv cache prune removes all unused cache entries. For example, the cache...
ā Jeff Williams, 62, Is Retiring as Appleās COO
Post-Williams, Appleās operations will clearly remain under excellent, experienced leadership under Sabih Khan. But the company will be left with its design teams reporting directly to Cook, leaving it less...
Monetization Isn't Just Pricing
Why stakeholders ask product managers about revenue ā and how to answer without owning pricing
A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom....
A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom. Iāve only started listening to this podcast, but itās so good already and Iāve heard only great things...
The Earth's Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today
Planetary Tailspin The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days...
Another live service shooter comes to a premature end: Steel Hunters, the mech game that launched into early access in April, is closing in October
Wargaming's mech shooter made a splashy debut at the 2024 Game Awards, but players just weren't interested.
2025-07-08
This competitive Blue Prince speedrun from SGDQ 2025 is the pinnacle of human athleticism
This is the Olympics, to me.
For the next 2 weeks Destiny 2 is completely free to play, even the stuff you normally have to pay for
There's also a big sale on Steam right now.
āLet It Wag!ā and the Limits of Machine Learning on Rare Concepts
The "Let It Wag!" benchmark tests AI models on rare, long-tailed concepts and finds consistent underperformance in both classification and image generation tasks, exposing fundamental weaknesses in current pretraining datasets...
AI Training Data Has a Long-Tail Problem
This study reveals five key insights about concept frequency in AI pretraining datasets, including long-tailed distributions, image-text misalignment, and cross-dataset correlations that reflect the biases inherent in internet-sourced data. Findings...
AI Models Trained on Synthetic Data Still Follow Concept Frequency Trends
Concept frequency remains a reliable predictor of zero-shot performance, even after controlling for sample similarity and using synthetic datasets for pretraining.
Analyzing the Impact of Pretraining Frequency on Zero-Shot Performance in Multimodal Models
This study finds a consistent log-linear relationship between how often concepts appear in pretraining data and the zero-shot performance of multimodal AI models across tasks like classification, retrieval, and image...
How AI Models Count and Match Concepts in Images and Text
This article explains how researchers identify and measure concept frequencies across text captions and images in AI pretraining datasets. Using NLP tools and image tagging models like RAM++, they extract...
What 300GB of AI Research Reveals About the True Limits of āZero-Shotā Intelligence
Despite claims of zero-shot generalization, multimodal models like CLIP and Stable Diffusion show sample inefficiencyārequiring exponentially more data to learn rare concepts. A new benchmark, Let It Wag!, reveals the...
Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?
Published on July 8, 2025 9:49 PM GMTLast year, Redwood and Anthropic found a settingĀ where Claude 3 Opus and 3.5 Sonnet fake alignment to preserve their harmlessness values. We...
Grok is āImprovedā According to Elon, But It's Raising More Concerns Now Than Ever
Elon Musk announced that his AI chatbot Grok has gotten a major upgrade. Users began testing Grok with questions on politics, media, and pop culture. The answers quickly got attention,...
Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned? Examining the evidence that...
Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned? Examining the evidence that the Bard smoked weed and that he was aware of its effect on his creativity. š¬ Join the...
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