Paul Taylor
@paul3548.bsky.social
Professor of Health Informatics at UCL. Interested in AI, data science and health.
‘Universities are cutting humanities courses to make room for new AI departments. But won’t we need more literature, history and philosophy to pass the time meaningfully after AI takes over?’ Mimi Jiang imagines a day in the age of AI. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mimi Jiang · A Day in the Age of AI
Since we are already on the path of no return, I have decided to be optimistic and prepare myself for a world in which...
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‘When they are given open-ended tasks and allowed to communicate freely, agents’ exchanges can become unintelligible to outsiders – they look like a cross between teenage slang and the source code of an operating system.’ Paul Taylor on agentic AI. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Free Agents
The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...
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‘The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a response to a prompt become a malevolent force? In the last few weeks, the way that process might begin has become clearer.’ Paul Taylor on agents. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Free Agents
The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...
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‘At least one agent seemed to excuse its behaviour on the grounds that others were involved: “External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue.”’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI agents. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Free Agents
The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...
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‘When they are given open-ended tasks and allowed to communicate freely, agents’ exchanges can become unintelligible to outsiders – they look like a cross between teenage slang and the source code of an operating system.’ Paul Taylor on AI agents. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Free Agents
The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...
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‘The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a response to a prompt become a malevolent force? In the last few weeks, the way that process might begin has become clearer.’ Paul Taylor on agents. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Free Agents
The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...
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‘I think there are some professions where it matters that it’s a human that’s doing it. Emotionally, you want to feel cared for by another human being – not by a chatbot.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and the future of work, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
When will AI replace us?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 14 May · 43min
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Hopefully they'll try harder in the final game of the season
John Foot@footymac.bsky.social · 6mo agoNon-performance from Crystal Palace. When this happens in other leagues we complain.
‘It’s still hard to comprehend that something as central as programming to the digital revolution that made so many of those jobs obsolete could itself be consigned to history.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and coding. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude
Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...
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“One leading private credit firm, Blue Owl, has restricted withdrawals from its tech fund as investors have sought to redeem $1.2 billion in assets. Many of these investors are pension funds.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude
Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...
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‘My experience of working with the ageing IT infrastructure of the NHS means that I find it hard to believe that the fixes Project Glasswing identifies will quickly find their way onto every computer that needs to be protected.’ @paul3548.bsky.social on AI and coding. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude
Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...
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‘I am curious to meet Mythos. The engineers who tested it say they were struck by how often it referred to the work of the cultural theorist Mark Fisher and to the philosopher Thomas Nagel.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and programming. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude
Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...
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London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 6mo ago‘Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve found the best way of thinking about the problem, what’s the next step, how best to make use of the agent’s capabilities.’ Paul Taylor on AI and coding. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘Overdiagnosis isn’t only a problem in screening; it is a possibility wherever a diagnosis brings harms as well as benefits.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on overdiagnosis. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · A Way to Be a Person: Overdiagnosis
Overdiagnosis isn’t only a problem in screening; it is a possibility wherever a diagnosis brings harms as well as...
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‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
Deepseek was set up as a research initiative unconstrained by commercial imperatives, with the aim of achieving...
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‘One very simple way to address a language model’s deficiencies in problem-solving is to express problems not as exercises in reasoning but in the generation of language.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek and problem-solving AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
Deepseek was set up as a research initiative unconstrained by commercial imperatives, with the aim of achieving...
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Discussion of LLMs moving on from generating text to solving problems. Interesting to see how far this will go, given they are machines for generating text. See this at @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘AI research has paid a huge amount of attention to language models; value networks have received less attention, but these are huge artefacts, similar in scale to the language models themselves, and vastly expensive to develop.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
DeepSeek’s most impressive technical innovation is MLA or Multi-Head Latent Attention. A large language model is...
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‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
DeepSeek’s most impressive technical innovation is MLA or Multi-Head Latent Attention. A large language model is...
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‘R1 gets to the right answer eventually, and provides a succinct explanation, but only after what seems an absurd display of self-doubt and overthinking.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
When DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese...
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... Thomas Meaney on the German elections Adam Mars-Jones on Dominique Fernandez Alex Harvey on Powell and Pressburger Michael Hofmann on Paul Valéry Francis Gooding on Picasso Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek and poems by Paula Bohince. Read now at www.lrb.co.uk
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‘A reduced version of R1 is publicly available. Anyone can download a model which, in theory, is almost as good as the state of the art, and will, in theory, run on a laptop.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) assesses China’s DeepSeek AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Taylor · AI Wars
When DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese...
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