Arvind Narayanan
Person on 4 sites
Professor of Computer Science at Princeton; co-writes AI as Normal Technology with Sayash Kapoor.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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23 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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An AI agent can only have two of three properties at once: being general-purpose, being deployed in high-stakes settings, and being fully automated. (opens korrents.com)
“For the time being, you can have only two out of these three properties in agents: general-purpose (a language model based agent that can be instructed to do different tasks rather than purpose-built for a task like…”
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Knowledge workers are becoming operators of AI systems, similar to how a crane or forklift operator controls a machine doing the physical work. (opens korrents.com)
“I think it is already the case in software engineering, and will increasingly be the case in many professions, that we can think of knowledge workers as similar to a crane operator or a forklift operator.”
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AI systems are much better at tasks whose correctness can be verified than at tasks whose correctness cannot be checked. (opens korrents.com)
“AI is still in a state where it is much better at verifiable tasks than non-verifiable tasks.”
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An AI agent can only have two of three properties at once: being general-purpose, being deployed in high-stakes settings, and being fully automated. (opens korrents.com)
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6 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Not the End of the World (opens rcmnd.app)
“So maybe in keeping with that, I really like Hannah Ritchie's book, Not the End of the World. She has a newer book, but this one's from 2024 and I still like it very much. The subtitle is something like how we can be…”
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Breakneck (opens rcmnd.app)
“I liked Dan Wang's uh, Breakneck. A lot of echoes of abundance as well. But this idea of thinking about a lawyerly society versus an engineering society was I thought a really good and succinct way to capture a lot of…”
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ChatGPT (opens rcmnd.app)
“ChatGPT was extremely helpful for doing the programming, especially dealing with unfamiliar APIs, and cut the development time a lot.”
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Not the End of the World (opens rcmnd.app)