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Sometimes when I demo AI, I show it turning cover letters into goofy formats (poetry, etc) as an introduction to the idea of AI as translator between forms. For the first time, GPT-5.5 has been trying

Stable Diffusion 2.0 is an open-source text-to-image model that includes improved text-to-image capabilities using the OpenCLIP encoder, generating higher quality images at resolutions of 512x512 and

the same model in a different harness can yield much different performance! we've seen this on a few different occasions now - we took gpt-5.2-codex from 52.8% to 66.5% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Top 30 t

We have released a little skill to help you build LLM Wikis with your agents. Releasing a little skill to help build LLM Wikis. More people should be building LLM wikis. I hope the skill is useful for

This post shows a Wordle game result where the player solved puzzle #1,778 in 3 attempts, with the final answer being a five-letter word displayed in all green squares. The emoji grid represents the c

a bit more about why i think what Dawkins wrote is misguided: “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I

A lot of work around AI in 2023 was spent on building picks and shovels. I would know this because that was basically the core goal of the original @llama_index framework. Today, a lot of that is no l

🚀 פרק חדש עם יובל פלג לוי מ @AI21Labs • למה חילוץ נתונים מ-PDF בעברית שובר גם מודלים מתקדמים? • הפתרון: החלפת מילים בעברית לאנגלית עם מידות פיזיות (Bounding Box) זהות, לשמירה על המבנה הוויזואלי מבלי ל

and see “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to wax p

and see also “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to

A Reddit post from r/ChatGPT where a user expresses frustration with ChatGPT's argumentative behavior and perceived inaccuracies, contrasting their experience with Claude which they found superior aft

Claude Opus 4.7 just implemented an AlphaZero-style self-play pipeline from scratch. It did this on consumer hardware in three hours, then beat the Pascal Pons solver 7 of 8 as first-mover on Connect

“Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training data to wax poetic ab

Grok 4.3 - excellent intelligence per unit cost xAI has launched Grok 4.3, achieving 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with improved agentic performance, ~40% lower input price, and ~60

Grok Voice is used by Starlink right now Grok Voice brutally dominates the top of the τ-voice Bench Grok scores 67.3%, while Gemini sits at 43.8% and GPT Realtime at 35.3% This is a massive lead over

here’s the essay: “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training dat

I added a new feature to my blog (built entirely on my phone with Claude code for web) that imports my iNaturalist photos and adds them to my site's overall timeline https://simonwillison.net/2026/May

Neural networks were declared scientifically dead in 1987. A French PhD student bet his entire career on them anyway ~ and won. 🤯 >Meet Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 >Paris-born. PhD from Sorbonne in 1987. >Joined Be

This article by cognitive scientist Gary Marcus likely critiques Richard Dawkins' views or statements regarding Claude (an AI system), examining whether Dawkins may be mistaken or overly optimistic ab

see also this essay: “Consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it *feels*. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all. I am sure Claude can draw on its training

OpenAI announced a community contest inviting users to create custom Codex pets using a /hatch command, with 10 winning entries receiving 30 days of ChatGPT Pro as prizes. The promotion encouraged use

/elsewhere/sightings/ I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark II) so I'm taking a lot more photos of birds. I share my best wildlife photos on iNaturalist, and based on yesterday's successful prototype I

small milestone: uninstalled the chatgpt app. codex is strict superset now! found something cool - among frontier models, @xai @grok 4.30 is the most intelligence per dollar you can get, beating even

(Sorry, after seeing so many of these, could not resist): 🚨 BREAKING: Google just dropped a NEW paper that completely deletes RNNs from existence. No recurrence. No convolutions. Nothing. Just one mec

The Harness is a Context Manager on Behalf of the Model What happens when the context window fills up and who decides? This decision is external to the model - The Harness designer must have some opin

This is actually a version of an alignment problem. Humans have background beliefs (don’t waste large sums of money without telling me) and Claude doesn’t respect those. Caveat emptor. THIS GUY ACCIDE

We are honored to be featured in the latest @TwoMinutePapers video! You all can watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/QzZ4VwDHAT4 Here’s a short clip from it: Media What happens when you put com

arXiv:2604.27421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely used for query reformulation and expansion in Information Retrieval, with many studies reporting substanti

arXiv:2604.28126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models offer superior generation quality at the expense of extensive sampling steps. Distillation methods, with Distribution Matching Distil

arXiv:2604.28177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce AEGIS, A holistic benchmark for Evaluating forensic analysis of AI-Generated academic ImageS. Compared to existing benchmarks, AEGIS featur

arXiv:2604.28078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid advances in photorealistic video generation, real-world applications such as filmmaking require video aesthetics, e.g., harmonious colors

arXiv:2602.11897v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cybersecurity decision-making increasingly occurs in environments characterized by uncertainty, partial observability, and adversarial manipul

arXiv:2604.17460v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI coding assistants have proliferated rapidly, yet structured pedagogical frameworks for learning these tools remain scarce. Developers face

arXiv:2604.26969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern large-scale recommendation systems are typically constructed as multi-stage pipelines, encompassing pre-ranking, ranking, and re-ranking phases

This article discusses the emerging landscape of AI agents specialized for different domains, contrasting Codex's capabilities for knowledge work and structured tasks with Claude's strengths in creati

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon debuts “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that lets users ask questions about products and get conversational audio responses generated in real time — Amazon

arXiv:2604.27550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy policies are essential for users to understand how service providers handle their personal data. However, these documents are often long and c

arXiv:2604.27543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating English ASR systems for conversational AI applications remains difficult, as many publicly available corpora are either pre-segmented into sh

arXiv:2604.27582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical resection remains the only potentially curative treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), and eligibility depends on accurate asse

arXiv:2604.27720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying vision-language models (VLMs) in clinical settings demands auditable behavior under realistic failure conditions, yet the failure landscape of

arXiv:2604.28109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging has attracted attention as an effective path toward multi-task adaptation by integrating knowledge from multiple task-specific models. Amo

arXiv:2603.01444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic data generation is an important capability for privacy-preserving data sharing, system benchmarking and test data provisioning. For mixed-

arXiv:2604.27089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-language-models (LLMs) demonstrate enormous utility in long-context tasks which require processing prompts that consist of tens to hundreds of tho

arXiv:2604.27253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized web agents that can automate complex tasks on websites. However, their ac

arXiv:2604.26986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a novel task of digital battery passport (DBP) conformance classification and introduce the first public benchmark for the task: BatteryPas

arXiv:2603.10252v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bayesian hierarchical models are frequently used in practical data analysis contexts. One interpretation of these models is that they provide