Welcome to Alpha Spaces
Here's a quick overview of what's new and recommended for you.
Dwarkesh Patel / Andrej Karpathy
AGI is still a decade awayAndrej Karpathy explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why model collapse prevents LLMs from learning the way humans do, and why AGI will just blend into GDP growth.
freeCodeCamp
Learn MCP Essentials and How to Create Secure Agent Interfaces with FastMCPA new course on Model-Context Protocol (MCP) using the FastMCP Python library to allow AI agents to securely and intelligently interact with your applications.
TechXplore / University of Otago
Smartwatches achieve centimeter-level location accuracy with new tracking algorithmsResearchers have developed algorithms that improve the precision of location tracking in smartwatches by combining signals from several global navigation satellite systems.
Medical Xpress / USC
Automated algorithm can detect cancer in blood samples in as little as 10 minutesA new AI algorithm named RED (Rare Event Detection) automates the detection of rare cancer cells among millions of normal blood cells, significantly speeding up liquid biopsies.
Gary Marcus
Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road.Gary Marcus argues that recent research on reasoning and distribution shift confirms that LLMs still face core, long-standing Achilles' heels in the path to AGI.
UPI
AWS outage caused smart beds to overheat, get stuck uprightAn Amazon Web Services outage impacted Eight Sleep smart beds, causing them to overheat and get stuck in inclined positions, highlighting IoT device dependencies on cloud services.