Arielle Pardes

covering AI culture + influence on the internet @WIRED
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[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

She was not like everyone else. Simply because.

[Shreyans Jain @shreyansj]

at what point are you not a startup anymore

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Jensen Huang on the definition of smart

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

China: a 10-year-old casually gets a Mac Studio for “raising lobsters,” aka letting multiple AI agents work together like a tiny digital crew.

“The world of the future belongs to those who understand Tokens.”

Meet the AI-native children.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Men are obsessed with AI. Many of their wives hate it—and them. https://t.co/exgPqh8tla

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

Active on X again, making a return to travel blogging and helping frens @WIRED with tech articles.

Anyways, Antalya is beautiful. Upset to be leaving next week 🥹

[Max Zeff @ZeffMax]

Elon Musk just said on the witness stand that he doesn't know what a "safety card" is with regard to AI development... "Why would it be a card?"

He also says he doesn't know what a preparedness framework is.

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

Ok, but like, when can ai blow dry my hair while I’m traveling?

[maddy varner @tenuous]

NEW: The Consumer Federation of America is suing Meta, alleging that the company misled consumers about its efforts to combat scam advertisements and violated Washington DC's consumer protection laws. My latest for @WIRED...

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

“There’s a big crowd of people who really, really want AI success stories. And then there’s an equal and opposite crowd of people who want to dismiss all AI progress. And what we have is a very complicated and nuanced story in between.”

Terence Tao on AI in math:

https://t.co/94LAF5rKhX

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

Welcome to the world of might is right! This should motivate every country to start its own nuclear bomb program because they cannot rely on international rule of law and AI will make the development easier. How much damage one dumbass can cause! The French nuclear arsenal should be moved to Greenland asap as a favor to the world to activate the MAD defense and deter Trump!

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

The Epstein Files are growing and growing and... https://t.co/XiUNwZ6G7u

[Richard Socher @RichardSocher]

I love longer form interviews with thoughtful journalists who go beyond the usual default questions. This was a great one on the question whether machines can think.

https://t.co/6qHpjh8NzR

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

A common question I get from business teams is the role of humans in an AI agent workflow.

Should a human check every step?
Should a human watch the whole workflow?
Should a human only check the last step?
Only the first?
How do we check for reliability/consistency?
What role does the human play, if any?

An interesting UX decision from @youdotcom where prior to kicking off the full research agent, the user is presented with the research plan. They have 10 seconds to intercept and make any edits, else the agent moves forward with the plan (requiring no additional manual intervention).

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

@FidelEverywhere Miami 🫶

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

Wow, as a @HiltonHonors member I am appalled. Room service: no answer. Front desk: no answer. @HiltonHotels on the phone: no answer.

Why carry a status with a hotel when they are of no help? Also, the phone being answered should be the standard for any guest.

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

Currently waiting on this response…. Are they going to recommend I cancel my card and just use my Amex which for sure has travel insurance for flights??? Can’t make this stuff up.

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

Help @JetBlue - canceled due to “weather”, yet clear in NYC and Miami. Delta flights still leaving. Please rebook me on another airline. This is unacceptable.

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

@JetBlue Sent

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

I’m a big dada girl.

I think it’s the California accent. How do you all say it?

[Fei @feifanw]

Ok let’s settle this once and for all, do you pronounce it data (dayta) or data (dada)?

[Arielle Pardes @pardesoteric]

My Trump impression just made me break a nail.

But I nailed it. (No pun intended)