AI is destroying Open Source and its not even good yet Over the weekend Ars Technica retracted an article because the AI a writer used hallucinated quotes from an open source library maintainer. The irony here is the maintainer in question, Scott Shambaugh, was harassed by someone’s AI agent over not merging its AI slop code. It’s likely the bot was running through
Deep Blue
On reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100000 physical qubits So, a group based in Sydney, Australia has put out a preprint with a new estimate of the resource requirements for Shor’s algorithm, claiming that if you use LDPC codes rather than the surface code, you should be able to break RSA-2048 with fewer than 100,000 physical qubits, which is
The evolution of OpenAIs mission statement
Testing Reachy Mini - Hugging Faces Pi powered robot When I saw Jensen Huang introduce the Reachy Mini at CES, I thought it was a gimmick. His keynote showed this little robot responding to human input, turning its head to look at a TODO list on the wall, sending emails, and turning drawings into architectural renderings with motion. HuggingFace and
This AI robot didnt replace my parent-child interactions When I saw Jensen Huang introduce the Reachy Mini at CES, I thought it was a gimmick. His keynote showed this little robot responding to human input, turning its head to look at a TODO list on the wall, sending emails, and turning drawings into architectural renderings with motion. HuggingFace and
My Optimistic Vision for 2050 The following are prepared remarks that I delivered by Zoom to a student group at my old stomping-grounds of MIT, and which I thought might interest others (even though much of it will be familiar to Shtetl-Optimized regulars). The students asked me to share my “optimistic vision” for the year
Programming in the swamp The grand prophecy of agentic programming goes something like this: in the not-so-distant future, we puny humans—limited as we are by our tiny working memory and limited cognitive abilities—will no longer build software “by hand.” Programmers will no longer write code as we once did in days of yore, keystroke
Introducing Showboat and Rodney so agents can demo what theyve built
Nate Soares visiting UT Austin tomorrow This is just a quick announcement that I’ll be hosting Nate Soares—who coauthored the self-explanatorily titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies with Eliezer Yudkowsky—tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5PM at UT Austin, for a brief talk followed by what I’m sure will be an extremely lively Q&A about his book. Anyone