20250105
Happy new year =)
Easy prediction for AI 2025 is that the gains in AI model capability will continue to grow much faster than (a) the vast majority of people’s understanding of what AI can do & (b) organizations’ ability to absorb the pace of change. Social change is slower than technological change. This all means that things will get weirder but that the weirdness will be unevenly distributed.. Ethan Mollick
Life: Dangerous mirror bacteria (and same from NYT, plus some more, and PDFs about risks). Training rats to trade stocks. Maths of murmurations.
People: Life measures. Cities tired from googly eyes. Going to funerals. Digital attics. Luigi Mangione OSINT trail. Where Dutch have to grow food (on 50% of their garden).
Tech: Swedish energy issue. (in)visible subs. Auto chips age faster in the south. Writing skills to one’s brain. CIA robots dragonflies. Willow’s quantum step.
Business: Honda+Nissan. Ca$h for your Warhol. AWS and EDF fallout. Blackrock loss on renewable.
Random: Raoult paper retracted. A blade done in fire. HUM/OS-INT.
AI: New types of managers. The University cheating crisis. Apple Intelligence is so-so. Chinese 2024 progress.
DIY: Free Copilot for GitHub.
Don’t miss - the French terroir
