weekend ai reads for 2025-08-15

I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. The code is cursed, the test is cursed, and I am a fool. I have made so many mistakes that I can no longer be trusted.

If you terrorists don’t kill us then the politicians will

For investors, treat “AI” the way we treated “mobile” circa 2011: infrastructure bets can still clear the hurdle rate if you triple the time discount, but the application layer is a graveyard of demos wearing revenue costumes.

The result? Each one reflected the same assumptions - those of English-speaking, Western European societies. None aligned with how people in Africa, Latin America, or the Middle East actually build trust, show respect, or resolve conflicts.

AI will lower the cost of getting ideas out of the heads of wannabe film and gamemakers the same way e-publishing lowered the cost of getting written stories out of the heads of wannabe novelists. Again, when the price of failure drops, risk-taking and new ideas take off.

A close examination of two pictures of the coffee table appears to show differences in the damage, leading the woman to believe they were digitally manipulated or generated by AI. She says the host was retaliating because she ended her tenancy early.

GPT-5 represents a significant shift in how language models process and respond to prompts. Unlike previous models, GPT-5 is particularly sensitive to instruction structure, style, and tone.

Give it a lot of input. The more input you give it, the better its output is. It’s a magic tool, but you’d still better be damn good at communicating, either by typing thousands of words into text files or the interactive window, or using TTS (I haven’t tried this because I hate the sound of my own voice, but others have reported great results).

We assess the performance of both human participants and LLMs on tasks focusing on reasoning from semantic structure and semantic content, introducing variations that test the robustness of their analogical inferences. Advanced LLMs match human performance across several conditions, though humans and LLMs respond differently to certain task variations and semantic distractors.

There's a calculation that every AI executive should know by heart, but most have never done: an on-premises GPU server costs roughly the same as six to nine months of renting equivalent cloud capacity.

I didn’t realize how irreplaceable I’d believed myself, how like a John Henry of the networked Humanities, until my students shared their findings. Yes, the majority preferred my feedback—it was noted that the AI models demonstrated an unhelpful fixation on “improving transitions,” whatever that means—but even my strongest advocates noted that their AI tutors often gave advice similar to mine, and faster.

The amendment narrows the legal definition of textbooks to printed books and e-books, excluding “learning support software using intelligent information technology." This reclassifies AI-powered textbooks as just another type of educational material, not official textbooks.

Given the speed at which technologies are changing, and the many local considerations to be taken into account, the AHA will not attempt to provide comprehensive or concrete directives for all instances of AI use in the classroom. Instead, we offer a set of guiding principles that have emerged from ongoing conversations within the committee, and input from AHA members via a survey and conference sessions.

Many vibe coding platforms store this data, even temporarily, often without the builder fully understanding the data flow. Some platforms retain data for debugging, analytics, or other operational purposes

Exfiltrating data is possible because ChatGPT supports markdown code in responses, and so can display images from remote URLs. And when an image is requested from a remote server, local data can be passed as parameters in the URL, leading to data exfiltration.

Describe what you want to watch in natural language and get AI-powered movie recommendations. Create moodboards, explore the community, and discover your next favorite film.

And the message is this: if you do not understand these billboards, this city is not for you. You don’t know what an API is? You’re clearly a Luddite, stuck in the analog past. Your economic value is minimal. Why are you still here? This place is for building the future, where everything is shiny and frictionless and all human labor is replaced by AI, which really means a towering stack of B2B software products, each with its own freeway billboard.

It doesn’t sound as warm and human as it might if Barbara were here. She’d say, “Go ahead and make it feel the way you want it to feel.” She'd say, “People have been decorating stuff for 10,000 years. Go ahead and decorate your writing. But don’t lose the skeleton, don’t lose the underlying architecture of SCQA because it’s a gift to the reader.”