AI this week: War, surprises and becoming a groundskeeper

Anthropic released their report on jobs, and ‘Grounds maintenace’ is looking like one of the few solid bets. At least until the robots come. https://www.anthropic.com/research/labor-market-impacts

Even computer science godhead Donal Knuth (it’s pronounced kuh-NOOTH, you philistine) is surprised by AI capabilities: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf

If you want to get a glimpse of the future, use-cases with a lot of compute are a decent guide. NotebookLM cinematic overviews from Google, only for top tier subscribers: https://x.com/NotebookLM/status/2029240601334436080

I generally avoid updates that include the word ‘insane’, but worth looking past it this time: agents pushing against security barriers as reported by Alibaba. Agents are not conscious (I think…) but then neither are ants, and the anthills are hard to deny. https://x.com/AlexanderLong/status/2030022884979028435