In 2016, the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was shown a bizarre AI-generated video of a misshapen human body crawling across a floor.
Miyazaki declared himself “utterly disgusted” by the technology demo, which he considered an “insult to life itself.”
“If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it,” Miyazaki said. “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
Many fans interpreted Miyazaki’s remarks as rejecting AI-generated video in general.
… But as these models have improved, they have sped up workflows and afforded new opportunities for artistic expression. Artists without AI expertise might soon find themselves losing work. — Read More
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OpenAI Is Sinking and Dragging the Entire AI Industry Down With It
If you still think the AI revolution is a story about progress and saving humanity, think again.
OpenAI is burning $11–12 billion per quarter, and its perverse appetite keeps growing. Until the end of last year, this could have been considered a problem for Sam Altman and OpenAI’s shareholders, but now everything has changed.
OpenAI no longer wants to go down alone. It’s dragging down the leaders of the AI and financial industries with it. The bill will run not just into the hundreds of billions of dollars set to go up in smoke over the next three years, but ultimately into the trillions. — Read More
The 2026 Timeline: AGI Arrival, Safety Concerns, Robotaxi Fleets & Hyperscaler Timelines
Elon Musk on AGI Timeline, US vs China, Job Markets, Clean Energy & Humanoid Robots
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The Chinese Room Experiment— AI’s Meaning Problem
“The question is not whether machines can think, but whether men can.” — Joseph Weizenbaum (creator of ELIZA, first chatbot)
Imagine you’re in a locked room. You don’t speak a word of Chinese, but you have an enormous instruction manual written in English. Through a slot in the door, native Chinese speakers pass you questions written in Chinese characters. You consult your manual, it tells you: “When you see these symbols, write down those symbols in response.” You follow the rules perfectly, sliding beautifully composed Chinese answers back through the slot. To everyone outside, you appear fluent. But here’s the thing: you don’t understand a single word.
This is the Chinese Room, philosopher John Searle’s 1980 thought experiment that has ‘haunted’ artificial intelligence ever since. Today’s models produce increasingly sophisticated text, writing poetry, debugging code and also teach complex concepts. The uncomfortable question, then, is whether any of this counts as understanding; or are we just being impressed by extremely elaborate rule-following. — Read More
How Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Reason With NVIDIA Alpamayo
The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition?
Michael Burry called the subprime mortgage crisis when everyone else was buying in. Now he’s watching trillions pour into AI infrastructure, and he’s skeptical. Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic, one of the leading AI labs racing to build the future. Dwarkesh Patel has interviewed everyone from Mark Zuckerberg to Tyler Cowen about where this is all headed. We put them in a Google doc with Patrick McKenzie moderating and asked: Is AI the real deal, or are we watching a historic misallocation of capital unfold in real time? — Read More
Use multiple models
The meta for getting the most out of AI in 2026.
… [I]t doesn’t feel like I could get away with just using one of these models without taking a substantial haircut in capabilities. This is a very strong endorsement for the notion of AI being jagged — i.e. with very strong capabilities spread out unevenly — while also being a bit of an unusual way to need to use a product. Each model is jagged in its own way. Through 2023, 2024, and the earlier days of modern AI, it quite often felt like there was always just one winning model and keeping up was easier. Today, it takes a lot of work and fiddling to make sure you’re not missing out on capabilities. — Read More
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