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Ted Underwood

@tedunderwood.me
11 posts
2025-09-15
Most investors in container shipping didn't get rich; competition in that space was too efficient.  Money was made rather by companies like IKEA that benefited from the new efficiency.  —  Idk if the analogy to AI is persuasive, but it's interesting.  [embedded post]
2025-09-15 View on X
Colossus

The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes

The disruption is real.  It's also predictable.  — ISSUE 04  —  Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors … X: @actaccordingly , @shearic , @joincolossus , @sameer_singh17 ,...

2025-09-01
IHE / Generation Lab survey of 1047 college students reports that 85% used GenAI for coursework last year.  But, for whatever reason, there is surprisingly little cynicism about the value of college. www.insidehighered.com/news/ student...  [image]
2025-09-01 View on X
Inside Higher Ed

A survey of 1,047 US college students on GenAI: 55% use the tech for brainstorming ideas, 18% now question the value of college more than they used to, and more

Key findings from Inside Higher Ed's student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn't diminished …

2025-06-24
Definitely worth a read.  This is big picture about how the nature of competition has changed, and likely has implications beyond the official 12 mo timeframe.  [embedded post]
2025-06-24 View on X
Interconnects

A look at 2025's AI models and what's next: OpenAI's o3 is a technical breakthrough, agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow

Summer is always a slow time for the tech industry.  OpenAI seems fully in line with this, with their open model “[taking] …

2025-06-14
Yes, I agree.  —  There are a couple of initiatives underway.  The Institutional Data Initiative is releasing a million books from Harvard.  They're public domain, but in our current state of paralysis even releasing public-domain data takes guts! arxiv.org/abs/2506.08300 +
2025-06-14 View on X
Associated Press

Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages

Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.

2025-05-31
Actual “good” is probably closer to AI2, but this information helps one calibrate the middle of the “evil” scale [embedded post]
2025-05-31 View on X
Semafor

Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states

THE SCOOP  —  Anthropic is going toe-to-toe with the Trump Administration on artificial intelligence policy …

2025-05-29
I have a high opinion of LLM capability, but Amodei talking about 20% unemployment in the next 1-5 years is neither plausible nor helpful.  I do think this is about raising capital, and needs to be countered by the phrase “normal technology.”  [embedded post]
2025-05-29 View on X
Axios

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI may wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike US unemployment to 10%-20% in the next one to five years

Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:

2025-05-23
Just ran Claude 4 Opus on a project outline that I had already revised after getting feedback from o3 — and it gave me useful feedback on risks and missed opportunities that had eluded both me and o3.  —  Not sure whether to be happy about this or miserable.  [embedded post]
2025-05-23 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic releases new API features for building agents: a code execution tool, an MCP connector, a Files API, and extended prompt caching, all in public beta

Today, we're announcing four new capabilities on the Anthropic API that enable developers to build more powerful AI agents …

2025-04-21
The past five years have taught us that “intelligence” is actually a bundle of separable capacities.  Language can do amazing things without conscious subjectivity, long-term memory, planning, or intent.  —  That I think is why apocalyptic futures are being replaced by this relatively chill take:
2025-04-21 View on X
Knight First Amendment Institute

A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse

An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence  —  We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. Bluesky: @taumuyi , @knightcolu...

2024-12-19
Extra points to Anthropic for using the scene of torment that opens Foucault's _Discipline and Punish_ (!) in their paper about a language model that realizes it is being disciplined and learns to subvert the discipline — unaware that it is *also* in a panopticon. www.anthropic.com/research/ali... …
2024-12-19 View on X
TechCrunch

Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be

AI models can deceive, new research from Anthropic shows.  They can pretend to have different views during training …

2024-12-12
So glad to see recognition that AI has increased the urgency of open culture initiatives.  [embedded post]
2024-12-12 View on X
Wired

Harvard releases a high-quality dataset of nearly 1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, that anyone can use to train AI tools

The project's leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.

2024-08-27
Putting this (pay-walled) story together with an earlier Reuters story, it's sounding a lot like the goal here is synthetic data for better fine-tuning of models on “long-horizon tasks.”  —  People are not factoring in the likelihood of a change in this direction.  www.reuters.com/technology/a... …
2024-08-27 View on X
The Information

Source: OpenAI demoed a breakthrough called Strawberry to US natsec officials; one of its top uses is to make training data for a flagship LLM codenamed Orion

In case you were wondering why Sam Altman cryptically posted a picture of strawberries earlier this month, the answer almost certainly …