The hype cycle for Google’s fabulous new AI Co-Scientist tool, based on the Gemini LLM, includes a BBC headline about how José Penadés’ team at Imperial College asked the tool about a problem he’d been working on for years — and it solved it in less than 48 hours! [BBC; Google] Penadés works on the…
EQL runs promotions such as launches of new sneakers. Some of these, like this year’s NBA All-Star Weekend launch of the Michael Jordan AJ 1, are in huge demand! So EQL runs these as a lottery. Reports came in from entrants that they’d received an email with the heading ”you’ve been selected” — but…
It’s beg notice time again at Pivot to AI. Writing here is delightful work, but it’s also work. Nothing on the site is paywalled, but I am quite fond of eating — and that takes money. Here’s what you can do to support this work: Here’s David’s Patreon. Sign up and send a few dollars each month. (U…
What is an “AI agent,” anyway? We could concoct a reasonable definition — say, you tell it in natural language what you want and it goes out and does it for you. But that doesn’t describe the things sold as agents. In practice, they’re any old rubbish branded as “AI” that promises it might do somet…
