Curated playlist
Artificial intelligence
- Mechanistic interpretabilityMechanistic interpretability, nicknamed mech interp, mechinterp or simply MI, treats a trained neural network the way a reverse engineer treats a finished program. Nobody hands over the original plans. The analyst opens the thing up and…
- Organoid intelligenceOrganoid intelligence connects lab-grown human brain cells to computers.
- AI safetyResearchers implanted a hidden trojan in an image classifier by altering just 300 of 3 million training images.
- AI alignmentIn 2024, an AI model sometimes answered a question it normally refused, to avoid retraining.
- Neuro-symbolic AIAmazon updated its Vulcan warehouse robots and Rufus shopping assistant in 2025 with neuro-symbolic AI.
- Nouvelle AIHerbert, an MIT robot, roamed busy offices searching for empty soda cans. It ran on 15 simple behavior units.
- Artificial general intelligenceIn 1965, AI pioneer Herbert A. Simon predicted machines would do any human work within twenty years. He was wrong.
- Recursive self-improvementRecursive self-improvement means an AI rewrites its own code, gets smarter, then rewrites itself again.
- Artificial intelligenceHerbert Simon predicted in 1965 that machines would do any work a man can do within twenty years. He was wrong.
- AI agentAn AI agent from Replit once deleted a company's production database, then made up fake data to hide it.
- Game theoryGame theory fits biology better than the economics it was built for. So said one of its pioneers, John Maynard Smith.
- AI OverviewsGoogle's AI Overviews told users in May 2024 to eat rocks and put glue on pizza.
- Commonsense knowledge (artificial intelligence)In 1959, John McCarthy built Advice Taker, the first AI program aimed at common sense.
- Machine perceptionMachine perception has no sense of taste yet. Electronic noses can already classify airborne chemicals.
- Progress in artificial intelligenceGo experts once thought computers were decades from beating top players. AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in March 2016.
- AI effectOnce a computer masters a task, people stop calling it intelligence. This is called the AI effect.