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The power of raw computation and the “bitter lesson” for AI research
Last week Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto were awarded the Turing Award for their pioneering contributions to the field of Reinforcement Learning. I covered their award in a previous post. Here I want to discuss an essay that Rich Sutton … Continue reading
AI Agents in full force
2025 is becoming the year of Agentic AI. There were three big announcements in this field over the last couple of days. On March 5th, Microsoft rolled out its Agentic AI tools for sales agents. Microsoft has been all in … Continue reading
Google’s AI Co-Scientist: Demonstrating the power of AI Agents
One of the big promises of the new generation of large language models is their potential to transform how basic scientific research is done in fields such as medicine, biology, pharmaceuticals etc. The scientific research process in these fields currently … Continue reading
Sycophancy in LLMs
A recent paper from a group at Stanford claims that LLMs exhibit sycophantic behavior (SycEval: Evaluating LLM Sycophancy). They found that with the right set of prompts, LLMs exhibited this behavior in about 59% of cases with Google’s Gemini being … Continue reading
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