The AI benchmark to keep your eye on in 2026? RLI. RLI, or the Remote Labor Index, published by the Center for AI Safety, is a fascinating, real world benchmark. AI is given a project that a remote worker would normally do, valued in the thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of work for…
My first read of the GPT-5 model card shows something that the technical folks have long suspected: We are hitting a substantial wall of diminishing returns on single dense models. GPT-5 is not a single model. Rather, it is a router with submodels underneath it. The router sends queries where they need to go based…
Ever had that friend who takes everything literally? You love them, you know them, and you know there are certain things either you just shouldn’t ask them, or you have to be very clear and specific how you ask them. That’s AI. Many of our personal language biases, AI takes literally. And because it’s built…
Here’s how I use AI for health-related stuff. BIG HONKING DISCLAIMER: AI is not your doctor, and neither am I. The only person you should accept medical advice from is a qualified human healthcare provider who is knowledgeable about your specific situation. I am unqualified to give health advice. Health is something everyone has varying…
What advice do you need to retire? As conference season ramps back up, I’m updating slide decks and talking points – and finding some dinosaurs that were correct once upon a time, but now need to be put out to pasture. Here’s one about video generation. I used to say that video generation can’t handle…
How often do you publish the first draft? If you’re any kind of writer, the answer is hopefully never. Hopefully you spend time revising the first draft to a second draft polishing it and removing the things that you could have done better. So how often do you accept the first draft from AI? The…
How do I go to the doctor in the age of generative AI? In the old days, we’d just go to the doctor’s office. We’d have a vague recollection of the past, and we’d have whatever was current on our minds when we met with our primary care physician and care team. That meant they…
See if you can answer this question. Astronomers are studying a star with a Teff of approximately 6000 K. They are interested in spectroscopically determining the surface gravity of the star using spectral lines (EW < 100 mA) of two chemical elements, El1 and El2. Given the atmospheric temperature of the star, El1 is mostly…
