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understanding ai timothy b lee substack understanding ai subscribe sign in home podcast archive about why it might not make sense for you to own a self driving car tensor let me sit in their driverless car it might go on sale in the us next year may 14 timothy b lee 126 4 7 a big lesson of my china visit compute shortages are holding back chinese ai one estimate suggests that openai has about as much compute as the entire chinese ai industry may 12 kai williams 111 8 5 i don t think we are close to ai scientists today s ai agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations may 6 timothy b lee 221 39 27 human drivers keep crashing into waymos waymo s biggest mistakes happened when it stopped in the wrong place apr 22 kai williams and timothy b lee 142 61 12 meta is back in the llm game after a year long break what muse spark tells us about meta s new ai strategy apr 20 kai williams 123 10 latest top discussions why anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release the language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the internet apr 8 kai williams 373 31 40 bernie sanders has a plan to stop the ai industry but it will be hard to assemble a broad coalition of ai skeptics apr 6 kai williams 163 28 12 why it s getting harder to measure ai performance the most famous chart in ai might be obsolete soon apr 2 timothy b lee 115 6 6 openai is shutting down sora its ai video app we cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests an exec said mar 25 timothy b lee 12 2 1 how to think about ai company finances openai and anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook mar 19 timothy b lee 107 15 9 it still doesn t look like there s an ai bubble anthropic s annualized revenue doubled in just two months mar 16 timothy b lee 116 12 6 the pentagon s bombshell deal with openai explained only congress can put meaningful limits on government abuse of ai mar 2 timothy b lee 177 23 25 see all understanding ai exploring how ai works and how it s changing our world subscribe recommendations view all 13 derek thompson derek thompson silver bulletin nate silver noahpinion noah smith transformer transformer the av market strategist daniel abreu marques understanding ai exploring how ai works and how it s changing our world about archive recommendations sitemap subscribe 2026 timothy b lee privacy terms collection notice start your substack get the app substack is the home for great culture this site requires javascript to run correctly please turn on javascript or unblock scripts