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If you read nothing else about AI this week, read this - absolutely fascinating, ties together a whole bunch of recent developments in the field Wrote my own notes here but really this piece defies summarization, you should absorb the whole thing simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/...

Arvind Narayanan@randomwalker.bsky.social

New AI Snake Oil essay: Last month the AI industry's narrative suddenly flipped — model scaling is dead, but "inference scaling" is taking over. This has left people outside AI confused. What changed? Is AI capability progress slowing? We look at the evidence. 🧵 www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog...

Thanks, Simon!! You're too kind. And thank you for your insightful blog, from which we've learned a lot. Just a small note that Benedikt Ströbl is one of the authors; he is credited in the byline but doesn't show up at the top because he is not a poster on our Substack.

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