Chris Paxton
@cpaxton.bsky.social
Writing about robots https://itcanthink.substack.com/ RoboPapers podcast https://robopapers.substack.com/ All opinions my own
Major restructuring at Gemini (Jef Dean out, Hassabis no longer CEO). This story will be studied forever as the incumbent with all the advantages not being able to get going. P.s. OpenAI accomplished their original goal.
Pantograph is releasing the Pandroid, a $4,199 robot designed to collect on-robot data at scale in the real world.
If you’re curious about why people are so excited/concerned about the state of agents, this is a really nice tutorial. If you think this stuff is useless and you’re open to changing your mind, this might be interesting!
David P. Reichert@david-p-reichert.bsky.social · 3d agoMany don't see how much AI has changed recently. Coding agents aren't just chatbots. We can’t deal with the challenges of AI if we don’t understand it. Here's a post to provide some evidence (Claude doing small ML experiments) and form intuitions. davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-hav... 🧵..
a Claude Opus 4.7-tier model is something you can use for free via Opencode??? that's fuckin' nuts buddy
Nick Fisher@hydroxide.dev · 6d agoLooks like the non-preview DeepSeek V4 Flash is now live on the API! api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/
Uh. This is the biggest news in AI today, and it won't be particularly close. Deepseek's FLASH model, 200ish billion parameters, is obliterating models 3-5x it's size and costs pennies.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 6d agoDeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores "far surpassing" V4 Pro Preview (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
AH this website is actually a work of art though. you can fit it with extra long horns so it can't chase your employees through doors
Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · 6d agoDont worry guys they made it vulnerable to guns and knives
"our E-stop is a handgun" is certainly a bold direction in the field of industrial robotics
Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · 6d agoDont worry guys they made it vulnerable to guns and knives
Oh my fucking god. All of this in just ~200B parameters. At a cost of practically zero. What does pro look like. api-docs.deepseek.com/zh-cn/updates/
i thought this was from a video game at first but this is just what modern warfare looks like in Ukraine i guess warning, robot on robot violence
Pushing back against a completely fake ineffective way of feeding poor people is good actually.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · last wk.I have never seen someone so flummoxed by the concept of feeding people lmao
Fuck copyright law, which requires that AI companies do this. This is what the publishers won when they beat Internet Archive in that lawsuit. This is what they *ASKED FOR*.
Jack Murphy@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · last wk.Fuck AI
if you're seeing this now everyone else started 5 days ago and you're way behind
Minor Mobius@minormobius.bsky.social · 2w agoYou didn’t miss the starting gun, it’s right now. Right now is the starting gun. Go do things. Act. Move it forward. Progress the mission. Advance advance advance ALWAYS FORWARD
Yesterday I was at the Allen institute (which has a Claude for science partnership) and talking to quite a few experts about AI and every one of them has expressed the same level of complicated excitement and awareness of how much it can do IN their area of expertise
Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · last wk.Peter's Law of Chatbot Accuracy*: "everything you read that's produced by an LLM is absolutely true, except for the rare output about which you happen have expert knowledge". *Remixed from Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy, where the exact same rules apply!
Cleverly convincing them to all block me by posting what i usually post
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last wk.Bluesky is actually really fun if you block the right 27,000 people
Bluesky is actually really fun if you block the right 27,000 people
As a US citizen and academic, I strongly believe that I have a duty to not self-censor in response to perceived political pressure. Paying the mafia and bowing to bullies is not how I choose to live my life, especially when the cost is "not receiving a grant," not "prison/torture/death."
