/
Navigation
C
Chronicles
Browse all articles
C
E
Explore
Semantic exploration
E
R
Research
Entity momentum
R
N
Nexus
Correlations & relationships
N
~
Story Arc
Topic evolution
S
Drift Map
Semantic trajectory animation
D
P
Posts
Analysis & commentary
P
Browse
@
Entities
Companies, people, products, technologies
Domains
Browse by publication source
Handles
Browse by social media handle
Detection
?
Concept Search
Semantic similarity search
!
High Impact Stories
Top coverage by position
+
Sentiment Analysis
Positive/negative coverage
*
Anomaly Detection
Unusual coverage patterns
Analysis
vs
Rivalry Report
Compare two entities head-to-head
/\
Semantic Pivots
Narrative discontinuities
!!
Crisis Response
Event recovery patterns
Connected
Nav: C E R N
Search: /
Command: ⌘K
Embeddings: large
VOICE ARCHIVE

Michael Nielsen

@michael_nielsen
18 posts
2025-07-20
A very useful thread on the OpenAI Gold Medal IMO performance:
2025-07-20 View on X
@alexwei_

[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad

1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...

2025-03-28
I really hope Miyazaki is offline, and his messaging platforms all undergo loss-of-data failures this week. I know, I know, it's an expression of love, but this certainly ain't his love language. Poor guy...
2025-03-28 View on X
Reservoir Samples

OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”

Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT X: @altryne , @nexuist , @sterlingcrispin , @borismp...

I really hope Miyazaki is offline, and his messaging platforms all undergo loss-of-data failures this week. I know, I know, it's an expression of love, but this certainly ain't his love language. Poor guy...
2025-03-28 View on X
TechCrunch

After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns

here's 7 incredible examples of what it can do Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : ChatGPT's New Image Model Sparks Additional Copyright Controversies #1810 Spencer Neale / The Amer...

2025-03-27
I really hope Miyazaki is offline, and his messaging platforms all undergo loss-of-data failures this week. I know, I know, it's an expression of love, but this certainly ain't his love language. Poor guy...
2025-03-27 View on X
TechCrunch

After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns

It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …

2024-04-11
This is great to see - Avi Wigderson wins the Turing Award. Avi is a friendly, encouraging, and generous person, who has made many remarkable contributions to theoretical computer science:
2024-04-11 View on X
Quanta Magazine

Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness

friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrizat...

2024-02-17
Really striking example: someone used a chatbot to buy an Air Canada ticket; it gave wrong information; he sued when he was not given the deal; the airline said “hey, not our fault, blame the chatbot”; the judge said “no way” The details are really interesting:... [image]
2024-02-17 View on X
Vancouver Sun

Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada must give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airline's chatbot

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support  —  https://arstechnica.com/... Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jbigham@hci.social : open season on “redteaming” these ann...

Interesting how conventional programming relies on: correctness, predictability, composability, modularity, interpretability, debuggability, traceability. All of those things either fail or radically change with AI models; and yet you get these incredible compensatory abilities....
2024-02-17 View on X
Vancouver Sun

Canada's Civil Resolution Tribunal rules that Air Canada must give a passenger a retroactive discount, which was erroneously promised by the airline's chatbot

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support  —  https://arstechnica.com/... Jeffrey P. Bigham / @jbigham@hci.social : open season on “redteaming” these ann...

2023-03-26
Gordon Moore's famous 1965 paper remains astonishing: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/... RIP: https://www.intel.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-26 View on X
Intel

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94

and the world it created Bloomberg : Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder Who Coined Chip Rule, Dies at 94 Aman Gupta / Livemint : Who was Gordon Moore? 10 things to know about the Intel...

2023-03-25
Gordon Moore's famous 1965 paper remains astonishing: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/... RIP: https://www.intel.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-25 View on X
Intel

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the author of Moore's Law, dies at 94

Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94.  —  The foundation reported he died peacefull...

2023-03-15
Tidbits from the GPT-4 announcement post: https://openai.com/... It exceeds 80th percentile on quite a number of exams. Still bad at some - things like AP English lit https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-15 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist

Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …

If you're reading the GPT-4 announcement and notice the claim that ChatGPT Plus “has” GPT-4, well, public service announcement: it doesn't. Save your $20 until it's actually available
2023-03-15 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI debuts GPT-4, claiming the model “surpasses ChatGPT in its advanced reasoning capabilities”, available in ChatGPT Plus and as an API that has a waitlist

Following the research path from GPT, GPT-2, and GPT-3, our deep learning approach leverages more data and more computation …

2022-08-31
Thoughtful discussion of the ethics of using AI models trained on artists' artworks. Something I wonder about: artists, of course, learn from & are influenced by each other. But I don't refuse to view art because of this. Not sure where I should draw the line. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-31 View on X
Waxy.org

A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest

laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI mod...

2022-05-24
Looking at Google's new image-generator (better than DALL-E, they argue), I'm pretty sure there will soon be a good use case for chatbots-as-interface-to-the-visual- realm: https://gweb-research-imagen.appspot.co m/ https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-24 View on X
TechCrunch

Google Research details Imagen, an AI-based text-to-image generator to rival OpenAI's DALL-E 2, and says it won't release code or a public demo at this time

The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2's ability to draw/paint/imagine … Source: Google Research .

2022-01-19
Fascinating update on where Intel is at: https://stratechery.com/... Every time I read about Intel I am struck: I don't know what Intel wants its decisive competitive edge to be. This may be my ignorance. But I wonder if they have strong alignment around a clear vision of that edge?
2022-01-19 View on X
Stratechery

As Intel pushes ahead with its IDM 2.0 strategy, a look at the motivations behind its TSMC partnership that is giving its competitor better scale and economics

2020-10-17
Something I find fascinating is when people say something (a) high profile; (b) obviously wrong; (c) lots of people point out in comments that it's wrong; and (d) they don't delete or correct or back down. I'd like to better understand what mental models lead to point (d). https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Senate Republicans say the Judiciary Committee will issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey about Twitter's blocking of a New York Post article

Something I find fascinating is when people say something (a) high profile; (b) obviously wrong; (c) lots of people point out in comments that it's wrong; and (d) they don't delete or correct or back down. I'd like to better understand what mental models lead to point (d). https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-17 View on X
New York Times

Twitter says it is now letting the NY Post link be shared because the info had spread so widely that it can no longer be considered private

The latest change underlined how rapidly social media platforms are shifting their positions in the days leading up to the election.

2020-10-16
Something I find fascinating is when people say something (a) high profile; (b) obviously wrong; (c) lots of people point out in comments that it's wrong; and (d) they don't delete or correct or back down. I'd like to better understand what mental models lead to point (d). https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-16 View on X
@vijaya

[Thread] Twitter updates Hacked Materials Policy, says it won't remove content unless shared by hackers themselves and will label tweets instead of block links

Over the last 24 hours, we've received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feed...

Something I find fascinating is when people say something (a) high profile; (b) obviously wrong; (c) lots of people point out in comments that it's wrong; and (d) they don't delete or correct or back down. I'd like to better understand what mental models lead to point (d). https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Senate Republicans say the Judiciary Committee will issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey about Twitter's blocking of a New York Post article

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley has formally requested @Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and @Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism...