Mike Knoop @mikeknoop
co-founder @ndea and @zapier @arcprize mikeknoop.com sf bay area Joined July 2009-
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What's the difference between an AI eval and an RL environment?
All companies have AI evals. But some are more coarse than others (customer retention/churn).
All companies have AI evals. But some are more coarse than others (customer retention/churn).
High-level history of LLMs. There have been only two major breakthroughs. 1. The transformer. Invented 2017, proven 2020, scaled up foundation model pre-training through 2024 2. Chain-of-thought reasoning. Invented 2022, proven 2024, now scaling process models via RL 2025+
Pay close attention to code and math domains because they're leading indicators of how good RL-trained AI reasoning systems can get with current ideas.
Pay close attention to code and math domains because they're leading indicators of how good RL-trained AI reasoning systems can get with current ideas.
New ARC Prize 2025 High Score 24.58% by Giotto. ai (@podesta_aldo)
> Hawking theorized in the 1970s, but no observational proof ... JWST latest observations date back more than 13bn years to when the universe was just 700m years old. They are so red, so compact, so bright astronomers concluded they must be ancient supermassive black holes
> Hawking theorized in the 1970s, but no observational proof ... JWST latest observations date back more than 13bn years to when the universe was just 700m years old. They are so red, so compact, so bright astronomers concluded they must be ancient supermassive black holes
High intelligence is an example of convergent evolution, it has independently evolved several times (cephalapods, primates, elephants, crows, and more). But while evolution is not guided by intelligence, AI development is, including all our biases.
a few other factors I think contributing to this negative trend. the platform-product fit of chat competitions was so strong that the entire AI market copied the interface to reduce switching costs. the platform fit for many of the newer features is weaker, so less…
a few other factors I think contributing to this negative trend. the platform-product fit of chat competitions was so strong that the entire AI market copied the interface to reduce switching costs. the platform fit for many of the newer features is weaker, so less…
Paradigm shifts often originate by noticing anomalies. What sort of anomalies exist with autoregression or diffusion that we cannot explain?
Highly recommend Andrew Ng's Coursera series for such an intro.
Highly recommend Andrew Ng's Coursera series for such an intro.
Agents drive clicks, views, curiosity. AI workflow drives results (for now).
Agents drive clicks, views, curiosity. AI workflow drives results (for now).
Hiring - ARC Prize Backend Engineer We're opening a role to build and operate the systems behind ARC Prize's next-gen AGI benchmark, ARC-AGI-3 Game engine, public API, and external researcher tools Join us in building the systems that define and guide AGI progress
We asked @wadefoster (Co-Founder & CEO, Zapier) how AI is changing the job market. “Capitalism is largely undefeated. We can see the jobs disappearing, but history tells us new opportunities are always being created… some reinvestment goes into AI, but also into people.” “The…
Current AI can be trained to solve any problem given sufficient human motivation (to organize capital, labor, and data). It requires no further AI progress. But cost exceeds motivation for most problems. Increasing AI learning efficiency makes more problems economically viable.
@deanwball This is a contender for top charts humanity has ever produced (other top contender is GDP/capita takeoff over the past 500 years).
i've always found prediction benchmarks interesting (eg forecastbench, prophetarena, futurex) because they structurally guarantee you can't train on test. at what accuracy% do we see AI making consistently profitable market trades?
i've always found prediction benchmarks interesting (eg forecastbench, prophetarena, futurex) because they structurally guarantee you can't train on test. at what accuracy% do we see AI making consistently profitable market trades?
It's that time of year again. Parent tip: you can upload a photo or PDF of your kids school calendar to ChatGPT and ask it to create an .ics calendar file you can directly import
Several of the early solutions showing up in discussions are quite impressive! This contest runs for another 2 months.
Several of the early solutions showing up in discussions are quite impressive! This contest runs for another 2 months.
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