Benj Edwards @benjedwards

Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts / Creator https://t.co/Rh4KGhtWM0, The Culture of Tech benjedwards.com Raleigh, NC Joined February 2009

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Craig Parshall @CraigParshall

4 hours ago

Clearly, no “Legal Rights” for AI, a question raised by @WIRED today. As @benjedwards cleverly notes in @arstechnica: with AI computation “we need to recognize that we have built an intellectual engine without a self, just like we built a mechanical engine without a horse.”

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Saud Hashimi @saudhashimi

5 days ago

An absolutely brilliant article by @benjedwards on the AI personhood fallacy. 'We stand at a peculiar moment in history. We've built intellectual engines of extraordinary capability, but in our rush to make them accessible, we've wrapped them in the fiction of personhood,…

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Ars Technica @arstechnica

a week ago

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality arstechnica.com/information-te…

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roon @tszzl

a month ago

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards

a month ago

Forget the latest and greatest. When is OpenAI's *least helpful* AI model coming out? 😜

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Justine Moore @venturetwins

a month ago

This may be the coolest emergent capability I've seen in a video model. Veo 3 can take a series of text instructions added to an image frame, understand them, and execute in sequence. Prompt was "immediately delete instructions in white on the first frame and execute in order"

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Dave W Plummer @davepl1968

a month ago

I'm so old I wrote that! That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it work on RISC, and so on. Success has…

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards

a month ago

There is nothing inherently special, authoritative, or accurate about AI-generated outputs. They are statistical prediction machines that will produce whatever pattern best fits your prompt, regardless of whether that output corresponds to reality

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

3 months ago

Congrats to Simon Willison (@simonw) on 23 years (!!) of blogging. Really excellent LLM blog, I sub & read everything: simonwillison.net (e.g. I sub via RSS/Atom on NetNewsWire) +If you consistently enjoy the content like I do, sponsor on GitHub: github.com/sponsors/simonw

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards

3 months ago

There’s nothing radical about supporting universal human rights. Never let anyone shame you for defending something that should be the baseline for modern society

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Ars Technica @arstechnica

3 months ago

With the launch of o3-pro, let’s talk about what AI “reasoning” actually does arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/wit…

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards

2 years ago

Stop it? Ha ha, very funny 2020 Benj

Benj Edwards @benjedwards

5 years ago

Stop it? Ha ha, very funny 2020 Benj

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Freethink @freethinkmedia

4 months ago

We were told that “AI will kill us all.” Who are the forces pushing this narrative into the mainstream? @DrTechlash freethink.com/artificial-int… @KristinJHouser @ndiakopoulos @soundboy @SilverJacket @ryanheathAI @binarybits @willknight @_KarenHao @benjedwards @davidzmorris…

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards

5 years ago

Have you pet your porch toad today? (Chubbs probably hates this)

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Ars Technica @arstechnica

5 months ago

How a 1980s Atari creator with cystic fibrosis crafted a story of salmon survival arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04…

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards

7 years ago

Hunt and peck.

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Sam Altman @sama

8 months ago

thank you to the external safety researchers who tested o3-mini. we have now finalized a version and are beginning the release process; planning to ship in ~a couple of weeks. also, we heard the feedback: will launch api and chatgpt at the same time! (it's very good.)