AI Encoder: Parsing Signal from Hype

AI Encoder: Parsing Signal from Hype

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How a Crossroads in "AI-washing" Reveals Something Happening to the State of News in US
Documented causes of Amazon's most recently announced layoffs reversed between "AI" and "not-AI", but also news articles were taken down repeatedly …
 • Jonathan Bennion
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" likely created with AI - what does this imply?
Emdashes per legislative page in this bill are 30% more than a bill of a similar size sent to Congress before AI use
 • Jonathan Bennion
Apple's Illusion of Thinking Paper & Concept of AI Tool Half-Life
No matter how an "AI agent" is defined (and improved upon), the paper argues that complex reasoning will "collapse" - more research suggests AI tool…
 • Jonathan Bennion
Querying pypi to fact-check AI hype
Pypi downloads allow us to see who is publicly lying; AI hype is over.
 • Jonathan Bennion
Confounds and Complex Bias Interplay from Human Bias Mitigation in Language Model Datasets Used for Finetuning LLMs
A 2023 dataset that balanced occupational bias distribution in one dataset may have decreased racial bias (unintentionally), but increased gender and…
 • Jonathan Bennion
Zapier's Deviation from AI Tool Adoption Trends in AI Hype Cycle and Potential Comeback
Diverging trends suggest automation tools faced challenges during AI hype cycle - will trend reverse as hype subsides?
 • Jonathan Bennion
How AI Was (Briefly) Hijacked by Hype - Why We Can't Have Good Things
Hypothesis on how an intelligent new technology was overtaken by hype from covid-era business school graduates, uneducated marketers, and influencers…
 • Jonathan Bennion
AI Encoder: Parsing Signal from Hype
AI Encoder: Parsing Signal from Hype
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