Morning edition, generated 2026-08-12.
Showing top 30 of 110 distinct stories after deduping (2 appeared in more than one source).
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 400 points, 160 comments (discussion)
This is the thesis behind the "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms" course that was taught at Cambridge University. > Why unify information theory and machine learning? Because they are two sides of the same coin. In the 1960s, a single field, cybernetics, was populated by informa...
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 320 points, 372 comments (discussion)
It doesn’t matter to me how good the LLM is at writing Go if the compiler can’t stop it from accidentally leaving another part of the software with invalid state as a result of a change the LLM is making. What am I talking about? Nil and partially constructed structs are impossible to prevent the cr...
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 567 points, 249 comments (discussion)
"Stealing" something you already paid for (tokens), but that you can't have access to(!). And trained on the sum of human knowledge. Training on other model outputs ought to be business as usual, stop using morally charged terms made up by future monopolists: https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/20...
Sources: Bubbles (Happily Imperfect)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 357 points, 370 comments (discussion)
In five years, I'd love to read a book about the history of AI ethics. I suspect it will read like Voltaire. My sense is that it is radically shifting from a fluffy marketing arm to a department expected to contribute meaningfully to development and justify its impact. I would expect an ethics team ...
Sources: Bubbles (V.H. Belvadi)
Sources: Lobsters
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Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 321 points, 151 comments (discussion)
Nvidia's biggest advantage in AI has never been only their hardware performance but how entrenched their software is in ML research that flowed down stream. However, if you've actually used CUDA C/C++, it's pretty one of the worst software development ecosystem imaginable: you get all the footgun of...
Sources: Bubbles (Terence Eden)
Sources: Lobsters
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Sources: Hacker News
HN: 273 points, 275 comments (discussion)
It’s a moot point. I’m saddened at the invasion of privacy and the intrusion on an individual’s civil liberties, but anonymous travel on the London Underground died when they made bank cards and contactless the primary way to get through the barriers. I’m not saying that “this doesn’t matter because...
Sources: Bubbles (diamond geezer)
Sources: Lobsters
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Sources: Hacker News
HN: 243 points, 237 comments (discussion)
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple isn't already doing this and just doesn't say so explicitly. There is a crazy amount of image processing going on behind the scenes in each smartphone photo. Would be interesting to compare a photo taken with the native camera app and photosynthesis to ...
Sources: Bubbles (Emma Goto)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot