We need to continue to be honest about what our models are actually capable of and where they fail so we keep moving forward. Less hype & blind faith in parameters & arbitrary scaling. More evidence based strategies & honest reflection. 6/6

This is what the AI brain looks like.

Hot take: machine learning and AI did more to understand the nature of knowledge, and our relation to reality than 20 centuries of philosophy. I am ready to kind of defend this hill.

Every time I tell AI utopianists that biology is too complex for AI to "solve", they cite the success of AlphaFold. No, AlphaFold did not "solve" protein folding. It gets broad structures correct ~70-88% of the time (depending on evaluation), enabling useful but flawed statistical guesses. True "solving" would require ~99.9% accuracy, practically zero meaningful edge cases, and high confidence across fine details like side chains and conformations. Even then, this is just one narrow slice of the complexities of proteomics. The persistent gap between the "AlphaFold solved protein folding" claim and reality is a perfect example of AI overhype in biology.

I think most people should consider becoming scientists. While there is a real risk AI will eliminate jobs, conversely the need for models to understand the world around us through more and better data will increase exponentially. AlphaFold, for example, would not have been possible if not for the work of thousands of grad students and postdocs painstakingly depositing well-curated datasets over decades of meticulous experimental work. We still only understand a fraction of the physical world and beyond, and we’ll only be able to do so if we collect more data and put it into context. Maybe this is a bit naive or utopian thinking, but humans are not designed to look through pages of receipts, read 100-page legal documents, or write reports and POCs no one will ever read. They are wired to explore, driven by curiosity, and have an innate desire to understand the world. Many who are bored or feel a lack of purpose -- with the overhanging (and maybe exaggerated) doom and gloom of AI replacement -- should think about this.

claude is independently connected to a plate reader and writing a PyLabRobot interface to it

It's time to build.

the secret life of boids using gemini 3 flash to simulate simple rules that lead to emergent behaviours (attraction, repulsion, cohesion)

A Chinese father's video of his daughter tearfully saying goodbye to her broken Al learning robot. People already get emotionally attached to AI. Now imagine Figure03 at home and it breaks, people will have a breakdown.

1517 Unplugged was a hit! Founders, community members, teens, LPs -- can't wait to host again next year.

we pull in marketing talent like @ntaforster to help tear apart our screenplay for the 11th time and @steventen to help us analyze references like tarrence mallick, hardcore henry, "tokyo pov", smack my ***** up, project X, city of god, and casino royale steven just happens to own an arri alexa, the camera they use to shoot skyfall

I asked nano banana to take me across Middle-earth and this is what happened... all the details on how I made this video, below 🧵👇

@steventen dropped another banger at @NovusOrg