I’m the Best (I said so)

I probably wouldn't take Google's word that their model is the best. Since results are marginal, and the leading team created the benchmark...

This is a very interesting benchmark. As results get more accurate they will be increasingly useful. Now I just need to hope this benchmark will be relevant beyond flexing their top score. (I know their ai course wasn't).

Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/facts-benchmark-suite-systematically-evaluating-the-factuality-of-large-language-models/

Hard Problems

All this new ai buzz has brought up another classic: the hard problems paradox. In cryptography, there is a need for problems that are easy to state and compute, but are hard to reverse engineer or solve efficiently without the key.

The interesting part is that no one knows if these "hard problems" actually exist! Complexity theory has not been able to prove that any problems exist that match those criteria; therefore the paradox that the entire field of securing your data is based on an improved theory!

If that theory is wrong, the entire security industry will collapse overnight. Certain new technology such as quantum computing already makes that theory rather dubious, and many headlines about how quantum computers just solved problems that would take a supercomputer billions of years are cryptography problems!

TLDR: nothing is safe, it's just a matter of how much someone wants something and what resources they have access to.

Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographers-show-that-ai-protections-will-always-have-holes-20251210/

Decoupling of Impressions

The recent decoupling of impressions to click through has been a drastic shift for many online companies. This change fundamentals threatens their business, but should the consumer care?

With just review sites being ai generated garbage trying to farm engagement and affiliate links, a large portion of the Internet is no longer useful. It might be time for a shakeup.

The advantage of the law is that it's slow. It takes time which allows everything to shake out and for more voices to be heard before a decision is made. It seems rather rash to attempt to create laws around a technology that no one understands the potential of yet. Let the free market handle this...

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crl95eg33k1o.amp