Matthew Hutson

Freelance science writer for The New Yorker, Science, Nature, etc. Fire dancer. Into cognition—animal and mineral (aka psych & AI).

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AI might find new physics where we haven’t looked. My latest for @IEEESpectrum: https://t.co/uSRGRz1X1r

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@zuhayeer @OpenAI @AnthropicAI Do you know how Staff was selected to mean more senior than Senior? To an outsider, it sounds less senior.

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@DoubleJ69 @SVG__Collection Even if I love my bandmate's grandma, I might prefer to produce in a professional studio. But I don't know the whole story.

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You’ve heard about rogue agent swarms, but how is AI enabling cybersecurity defense? Here’s my report for @IEEEorg @ComputerSociety.

Thanks, Matthew Butkovic at @SEI_CMU, Gabriela Ciocarlie at @FollowStevens, Cristian Rodriguez at @CrowdStrike, Sam Rubin at @PaloAltoNtwks, Michael D. Siegel at @MITSloan, Scott Woodgate at @Microsoft. https://t.co/A0eAmOJVhl

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@MBEmpower @SVG__Collection If you have the knowledge I lack, please share it. That's why I asked a question :-)

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@KoaWeb3 "Them!" is at the cinema tonight.

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@graphtheory Def @SachaBaronCohen's best character.

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@JustinWhang Perhaps @SachaBaronCohen's best character.

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One way for AI to create new ideas.

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Interesting idea. Had tokens to burn so I got Opus to put it to the test

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@lookenue Was that the inspiration for this? https://t.co/UNqQqF8Odb

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@MTA So if you take the SAS to 125, you'll need to switch trains? Why not make it one line?

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One possibility is that @ElizabethHolmes genuinely had never heard of “Who’s on First?” (remarkable) and, after watching it, didn’t understand it (astounding).

Another is that she merely pretended to not understand it (also astounding).

One problem with the latter is that at first she said she did understand it. Only when @nathanfielder pressed did she display confusion. But maybe she didn’t think of faking confusion until after his initial questions? I need to see the scene again.

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In “You Can See Everything,” something about the Abbott & Costello scene puzzles me. Spoilers ahead.

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@JamesSurowiecki I'd pick Post, Liquid Swords, or Exit Planet Dust over any of the 16 in the grid.

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@shawmakesmagic Trick question. Matmul isn't conscious. ReLU is.

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@fchollet How much of post-training is RL for reasoning, versus RLHF or SFT? (A quick Google search says 10–20%.)

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@elonmusk @teslayoda Fortnite would be an interesting challenge.

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@greg16676935420 If no one is saying nothing, what are they saying?

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hey this one actually has an axis of symmetry maybe god doesn’t hate us after all