Why AI Labs Are Arguing About Slowing Down
The same month that several labs shipped their largest models yet, senior researchers published arguments for deliberately slowing development. Both things are happening at once, and that is the point.
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Why AI Hallucinates
Language models are trained to produce plausible text, not true text. Confident errors are not a glitch on top of that design; they are what the design produces when knowledge runs out.
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Why Do People Procrastinate?
Procrastination is not a time management problem. It is a mood management problem: we delay the task because doing it would feel bad right now, and delay makes us feel better right now.