AI

LLMs excel at programming—how can they be so bad at it?

My explanation for the mystery of why LLMs can be both exceptionally good and quite terrible at programming.

Nov 6 •

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

Oct 7 •

Teaching data visualization in the time of generative AI

If students want to cheat with AI, the least I can do is make them own up to it.

Sep 12 •

Are AI papers now written by AI?

Are AI papers now written by AI?

Aug 12 •

"I asked the AI" is not research

You can't reliably fact-check or research obscure topics by asking an AI. It may know less about the topic than you do.

Aug 2 •

Limitations of protein language models applied to viral data

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

Jul 23 •

No, AlphaFold has not completely solved protein folding

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

Jul 12 •

PhD-level intelligence or the graduate student from hell

AI companies love to tout that their models are approaching—or have reached—PhD-level intelligence. This is blatant nonsensical marketing geared towards…

Jul 9 •

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