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16 articles Limits & Risks
Every claim about a system being better than another rests on a test, and the properties of those tests are…
Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read
History
For a decade the way to build a useful thinking machine was to interview a specialist and write down what…
Jul 5, 2026 · 3 min read
Jargon
A model that scores perfectly on the data it was trained on has told you almost nothing, and the concept…
Jun 25, 2026 · 3 min read
In The World
A field that ran for decades on university budgets now has a frontier accessible to a handful of…
Jun 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Limits & Risks
Systems that plan and act over many steps inherit an arithmetic problem: per-step accuracy that sounds…
May 18, 2026 · 3 min read
Limits & Risks
Performance measured at launch describes a relationship between a fixed model and a moment that has already…
May 12, 2026 · 3 min read
History
A phrase chosen partly to distinguish a new group from an established one became the label for an entire…
May 5, 2026 · 3 min read
How It Works
Repetition producing different text is the expected behaviour of a system that samples from a distribution…
Mar 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Limits & Risks
Detecting fraud, faults and intrusions means searching for events that almost never happen, and the…
Feb 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Limits & Risks
Every statement that a system can or cannot do a thing is an inference from behaviour on a sample of cases…
Feb 6, 2026 · 3 min read
History
A postwar research movement about feedback, control and self-regulating machines set out much of the agenda…
Jan 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Jargon
The terms count how many examples were supplied at the moment of asking, they say nothing about what the…
Jan 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Jargon
The term was proposed to describe a genuine shift in how systems are built, the objections to it were…
Dec 22, 2025 · 3 min read
Limits & Risks
Treating a fluent conversational system as though somebody is there is not a failure of intelligence on the…
Nov 11, 2025 · 4 min read
Jargon
Every learning system carries built-in preferences about which explanations to favour, learning is…
Oct 14, 2025 · 3 min read
Jargon
The phrase borrowed from surveying implies a fact against which everything else is measured, and in most…
Oct 10, 2025 · 3 min read
