2024-10-06
Terence Tao (!!) and I discuss OpenAI's latest model mediocrity, how AI might be useful to mathematicians (as “glue,” for now), and his vision for industrial mathematics: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
Q&A with UCLA's Terence Tao, widely considered the world's greatest living mathematician, on OpenAI's o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more
Terence Tao, the world's greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI. — Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence.
2022-09-18
In my first for @TheAtlantic, the chess scandal provides a window into how AI has transformed chess in the past 20 years—first into something resembling a spelling bee, and now into a psychological game not unlike poker. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
The Atlantic
How neural network chess engines redefined the game's creativity, leading some top players to use deception, misdirection, and other psychological techniques
It was as if a bottom seed had knocked out the top team in March Madness: At the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in St. Louis earlier this month … Tweets: @pokertube , @olimpiuurc...
2022-09-06
Very insightful piece into a little known bit of YouTube history: the small curatorial team, called “coolhunters,” that crowned many of the site's early hits—until they were replaced by algorithms https://twitter.com/...
The Atlantic
A look at YouTube's “coolhunters” who were tasked with finding and promoting talented YouTubers in the company's early years, before the algorithms took over
like videos of quirky ukulele players—on blogs. Rob Zombie and Wes Craven guest-curated on Halloween. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... @theatlantic : Today, YouTube is known for it...