LLMs are marketed as these all-knowing machines. But they are unable to explain *how* they get to a decision and second they cannot know how *you*, as an expert, prefers to decide given a specific context and the organizational commitments you have.
Ronald Ashri
@istos.bsky.social
He / Him (if this annoys you: good - move on). Founder / Technologist. Empathy / Kindness ❤️. 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇨🇾 Writing about AI agents at AgentsDecoded.com
understanding and clearly articulating challenges in AI agent deployment is key - a recent paper provides a useful framework through which to express them open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
Understanding AI Agents through the Generality - Accuracy - Simplicity (GAS) Framework
Understanding and clearly articulating challenges and trade-offs is key to successful AI Agent deployments. A recent paper provides a great framework through which to express them.
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Super-assistant like Claude and ChatGPT are coming after everyone open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
Super-Assistants Vs The World: Why LLM Wrappers, traditional SaaS tools and Specialist AI Agents all need to worry.
The big LLM companies are launching do-everything super assistants. Where does that leave LLM Wrappers, specialist AI Agents and traditional SaaS tools?
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CIAO Design Principle #2: Explicit rules defined in code are better than implicit rules defined in prompts. open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
CIAO Design Principle #2: Explicit Rules in Code Beat Implicit Rules in Prompts
CIAO (Conversations-Interfaces-Agents-Orchestration) is an AI application framework that is not afraid to clearly say that explicit code is better than prompts.
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Pope Leo the 13th advocated for workers rights and fair wages during the first industrial revolution. The new Pope - Leo the 14th - apparently picked the name to “respond to another industrial revolution and to the developments in artificial intelligence”. www.repubblica.it/cronaca/doss...
Il discorso di papa Leone XIV ai cardinali: “Il nome scelto per rispondere alle sfide dell’IA”
Prevost ha incontrato i porporati per un saluto finale e per condividere alcune riflessioni: “Mi aiutate in giogo superiore alle mie forze”
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CIAO stands for Conversations - Interfaces - Agents - Orchestration and it is an architectural framework for describing AI-powered applications to help teams better reason about what they actually need to design and build open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
CIAO 👋 - A Unifying Architectural Framework for AI-powered applications
We are creating a new type of software application.
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Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.
“Maybe we need to work on other ways of coming alive”. youtu.be/-27a1ugJX8U?...
Pulp - Spike Island (Official Video)
YouTube video by Pulp
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
David D. Levine@daviddlevine.com · last yr.LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
[Emerging Standards] A2A Protocol: New Era of Agent Collaboration or Just APIs in a Trench Coat? open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
In comparison, what Argentina’s Milei did with crypto was amateur time. What are mere 10s of millions of a crypto scam compared to the 100s of millions of pump and dump currently going on in the USA.
The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8
Scrolling through #TeslaTakeDown demonstration postings across the world is a great Sunday morning pick-me-up. Highly recommended.
"When this government says disabled people ought to work, we ask: Where are the jobs? The level-access commuter trains? The accessible homes? The carers to dress me at 6am? (Right, Brexit made them leave.) The reduction in wait times for Access to Work, Wheelchair Services?"- Anna Landre
🤦🏽♂️ know what’s a really great way to learn how to think, break down problems and communicate clearly? Learn how to CODE!
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.Let’s conveniently ignore how people in tech making the most out of AI tools are… people who know how to code They are now called “AI engineers” sometimes as well While everyone else is stuck promoting LLMs to try and fix increasingly complicated code generated they just do it
come on who hasn’t accidentally cc’ed someone at work and then went on to share highly classified information regarding an imminent military strike while also badmouthing their allies and attempting to set a price for their bombing service while also gloating about how well they killed people
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart revolutionized computing by showing the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative computing in "The Mother of All Demos". Most of his ideas are now part of everyday computing, but one device—the keyset—failed to catch on. Let's look at Engelbart's demo and the keyset. 1/N
I'm sorry but Jasmine Crockett saying, F"ind a little trans child that is ruining your life!" is well giving me life. She is both very right and very funny.
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
Victory for @tanyaocarroll.bsky.social in case against #Meta! Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: you do not have to put up with targeted ads and profiling www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
One mother’s win over Meta will change social media for everyone
Britons will be able to opt out of targeted advertising after Tanya O’Carroll’s David-and-Goliath battle with Meta
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What the LLM industry is doing is not dissimilar to what robber barons across the ages have done. Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and others have identified a natural resource, content produced over centuries of human labour, and a means to exploit it, productised LLMs open.substack.com/pub/agentsde...
[AI Agent Diaries] The LLM industry's dirty secret and what to do about it.
The LLM industry is experiencing a mini ChatGPT-in-reverse moment this week with The Atlantic's release of the LibGen search tool, showing how much pirated material is used for LLM training.
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Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants. History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well. 🧵
New figures from @mozilla.org on the #DMA browser choice screens, revealing a pent-up demand for alternatives to gatekeeper browsers: +99% daily active Firefox users in Germany since they were introduced in 2024, and +111% DAUs on iOS in France. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/...
Browser choice? Here’s how EU’s DMA is helping make it real | The Mozilla Blog
Too often, well-intentioned regulation misses the mark. This can be due to poor design, poor implementation, poor compliance, or failure to address uninten
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not only do we want to turn off other AI we want to turn off our own brain AI as well...
I shared a controversial take the other day at an event and I decided to write it down in a longer format: I’m afraid AI won't give us a "compressed 21st century" Here: thomwolf.io/blog/scienti... It's an extension of this interview discussion from the AI summit: youtu.be/AxBd3G0lFLs?...
