John Records

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

wrote about Deep Research, which is very, very good at doing nuanced and complex research. It is also the first narrow agent that can do sophisticated and likely quite economically valuable work, which tells us something important about the future. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

This weekend I wrote a post on which AI to use right now (at least for general, individual users). Model strength may matter less to most users than the capabilities of the apps and the other features that each model includes. It is a little complicated. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-t...

One of Obama’s favorite books: The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut. $1.99 today on Kindle. Historical novel involving John von Neumann “Cavemen created the gods,” he said. “I see no reason why we shouldn’t do the same.” a.co/d/0IqPB4d #AI

@kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social @emollick.bsky.social Might you get together on Hard Fork and discuss Ethan's views on co-intelligence and our relationship with AI? I highly recommend his book if you haven't read it yet. a.co/d/c6WLkqv

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If you have ever tried to read free books from sites like Project Gutenberg, you noticed that they can be uncomfortable to read, due to their layouts, type & occasional errors This project takes those free books and makes them beautiful (and still free). standardebooks.org

@kris.art thanks for your starter packs, magnificent offering! Do you have a tip jar?