2024

In this interview, Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai discusses the company's AI advancements in search and addresses concerns about its impact on website traffic and content creation. via The Verge

Simon Willison calls the latest wave of AI content flooding the internet "slop." via simonwillison.net

Tyler Cowen shares an excerpt from his interview with The Generalist where he discusses the benefits of political polarization in the US compared to Germany.

via Marginal REVOLUTION.

Tyler Cowen shares a variety of links on diverse topics including education technology, art history, and the letter "a" being common at the end of girls' names. via The source of this content is Marginal REVOLUTION.

Rising labor costs are often blamed for the lack of ornamentation in modern buildings, but a new paper argues that a shift in elite taste towards simplicity, coupled with the decreasing cost of robotic stone carving, might be bringing ornate buildings back. via Marginal REVOLUTION.

Researchers tested using large language models to generate planning domain models from text descriptions, and found larger models showed promise. via Hugging Face.