Category: Academic

• AI, Job Loss, and the Bigger Picture

  Sep 20

  AI, Job Loss, and the Bigger Picture Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of AI on job losses — especially after seeing some negative reactions to the Ollie… more ›

• AI Beyond LLMs: Companionship, Preferences, and Spatial Intelligence

  Sep 16

  What I’m reading and thinking about today: When Your “Boyfriend” is AI: Companionship in the Digital Age One paper examined a Reddit community called r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, where thousands of people share… more ›

• Sep 1

  LLMs Are Getting “Dumber”? A Clear, Practical Summary (and My Take) Summary of this substack post: https://www.ignorance.ai/p/llms-are-getting-dumber-and-we-have What people are noticing, five theories for why it might be happening, and… more ›

• Cats in AI

  Aug 26

  Cats Confuse Reasoning LLMs: Adversarial Triggers Expose Hidden Vulnerabilities I found this study, Cats Confuse Reasoning LLM: Query-Agnostic Adversarial Triggers for Reasoning Models, really interesting, given that the entire Ollie… more ›

• Hormonal AI

  Aug 20

  Based on the research paper “Every 28 Days the AI Dreams of Soft Skin and Burning Stars: A New Approach to Emotional AI” by Leigh Levinson and Christopher J. Agostino. What’s the Big Idea?… more ›

• This week’s technical reading – Neural Networks & LLMs

  Aug 4

  How Neural Networks Think at Scale This document explores how neural networks represent and store information as they scale. It introduces the concept of a privileged basis, which is necessary for… more ›

• Productivity 101 with GenAI: AI Tools Slowed Down Experienced Developers by 19%

  Jul 16

  A new study from METR, published on arXiv in July 2025, delivers a surprising conclusion: state-of-the-art AI coding tools made experienced open-source developers slower, not faster. In a rigorously controlled… more ›

• Day 186: What I read over the (long) weekend

  Jul 7

  1. AI Empowers “High Agency” Workers – WSJ Opinion by Replit CEO Start with one of my favorite reads, and a big part of why we are writing the “Ollie… more ›

• What I’m reading: 2025, Day 183

  Jul 2

  AI Note-Takers Are Taking Over Meetings AI-powered note-taking tools—now built into Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Otter.ai, and ChatGPT—are increasingly showing up to meetings in place of humans. In one… more ›

• What I’m reading: 2025, Day 182

  Jul 1

  Some of the articles that have me thinking today in the theme of AI enhancing and not replacing human wisdom, judgment and critical thinking. Digital Workers Have Arrived in Banking… more ›