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Avg Comments
52.0
Avg Likes
137.0
Engagement Rate
0.31%· ~189 likes + comments/post
(comments + likes) / subscribers
| Public |
| On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences) (Apologies for the length of this post, which means it gets cut off in the email version.Jan 14, 2026 | Public |
| Do AI Reasoning Models Abstract and Reason Like Humans? Going beyond simple accuracy for evaluating abstraction abilitiesOct 6, 2025 | Public |
| Magical Thinking on AIA Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York TimesSep 15, 2025 | Public |
| How Your Cheese-Powered Baby Trounces AI An O.G. AI Researcher on How Being Social and Cultural Makes us Intelligent--and Whether Machines Can Ever Learn EmpathyJun 26, 2025 | Public |
| David Cope: Composer, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer generated musicToday I learned that the composer David Cope died on May 4, at the age of 83.May 8, 2025 | Public |
| AI learns to reason (or does it?)I have a gig writing four columns a year about artificial intelligence for Science Magazine’s “Expert Voices” project.Mar 21, 2025 | Public |
| LLMs and World Models, Part 2Evidence For (and Against) Emergent World Models in LLMsFeb 13, 2025 | Public |
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Publishing Consistency
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Subscribers
61K
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