Agency has increasingly become a critical dimension in discussions about artificial intelligence. While AI’s rapidly growing capabilities promise convenience and efficiency, they also raise essential questions about autonomy, choice, and responsibility. Two concepts from theoretical computer science—Automata Theory and Entropy—can help illuminat... Read more 13 Feb 2025 - 5 minute read
From a BBC report, coining the term “AI Distortion”: Our researchers tested market-leading consumer AI tools – ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini […] The team found ‘significant issues’ with just over half of the answers generated by the assistants. The AI assistants introduced clear factual errors into around a fifth of... Read more 12 Feb 2025 - 1 minute read
Studies by Salesforce Research and Google Deepmind, as well as own experiments, have previously cast fundamental doubt on RAG. Now, Richard Meng came forward and shared practical confirmation: We’ve spoken with 30 companies who developed RAG-based chatbots on PDF documents. Every single one has failed The problems he shares are familiar: ... Read more 11 Feb 2025 - less than 1 minute read
Sharing results from OpenAI Deep Research is not straightforward as simple copy & paste will cobble up attributions. What works instead is lifting the HTML fragment from ChatGPT and building a document from there. Step-by-step: In the browser version of ChatGPT, target the title in the response report. Do a left-click, open the Developer ... Read more 08 Feb 2025 - 1 minute read
A “Virtual Sales Associate” was showcased briefly by OpenAI, perhaps as something like GPTs: “Enterprises can start to customize these applications [agents?]”. Also, OpenAI may be going after the data inside organizations: “The most valuable data is the data you have in your company. You can imagine us to expand Deep Research to internal informa... Read more 06 Feb 2025 - 1 minute read