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The SAIRC Discussion Forum is a space for AI enthusiasts to share what they're thinking about. No formal research paper required. Posts can be submitted anonymously and span a wide range of formats:
- Tutorials or deep-dives on AI topics
- Fresh perspectives: reframings or new ways of looking at something
- Novel research results communicated in plain language
- Resources and opportunities in AI (summer programs, tools, datasets)
- Thought experiments and speculative ideas
- Notes or study guides from courses
Recent Posts
Token Maxing: The AI Industry is Struggling with Measuring Value
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Devansh examines how the AI industry has yet to establish reliable ways of measuring the value its products actually deliver, and how "token …
Build your personal AI copilot
This article was submitted as an educational post. Full credit goes to the author, Tal Raviv, and the original post can be found at the provided URL.
Raviv lays out a practical fo…
How I code with agents, without being 'technical'
This article was submitted as an educational post. Full credit goes to the author, Ben Tossell, and the original post can be found at the provided URL.
Tossell describes how he bu…
AI Funding is Coming to Schools
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The U.S. Department of Education has signaled that grant applications emphasizing AI will receive preferential consideration, setting off a w…
On Evaluating Cognitive Capabilities in Machines (and Other "Alien" Intelligences)
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Mitchell argues that evaluating AI cognitive capabilities requires borrowing rigorous experimental methods from developmental and comparative…
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
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In the wake of Anthropic's Claude Mythos announcement, Lambert argues that concerns about open-weight AI models enabling widespread harm are …
The distillation panic
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Lambert pushes back on the conflation of legitimate AI distillation techniques with illicit API abuse, arguing that using stronger model outp…
The growing AI backlash
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Marcus argues that growing public backlash against AI is not only justified but inevitable. After years of hype, generative AI has caused mea…
Could generative AI turn out to be the tech industry's Vietnam? And could public backlash lead AI to a better place?
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Marcus draws a striking parallel between the AI industry's massive, metric-driven investment and the United States' escalation in Vietnam—cos…
Why Studying Mathematics Will Always Be Necessary for Working in Computing
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My favourite explainers of Transformers, LLMs and related technology
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What Real AI Partnership Looks Like
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AI research as a civil service
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Accelerating Strategic AI in Education
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Why Most School AI Policies Are Failing
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