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Yann Lecun published the most heretical AI paper of the year. He opens by arguing Magnus Carlsen isn't good at chess and only gets more unhinged from there. The Turing Award winner and his co-authors dropped a paper demanding the AI industry abandon its biggest obsession, AGI. Right now, everyone from Silicon Valley CEOs to politicians assumes AGI is the ultimate goal. A machine that can do everything a human can do. LeCun argues that this entire concept is a biological illusion. Humans do not possess "general" intelligence. We are highly specialized biological machines, tuned by evolution simply to survive in the physical world. We only think our intelligence is "general" because we are completely blind to the millions of cognitive tasks we are incapable of comprehending. Which brings us to the chess argument. Magnus Carlsen is the greatest human chess player in history. But compared to a modern computer? He is fundamentally terrible. Our belief that Carlsen is "good" at chess is pure human-centric bias. He isn't objectively good. He's just better than the rest of us, who are biologically awful at it. LeCun says we need to stop building AI to mimic human generality. Instead, he proposes a new North Star: SAI. Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence. Instead of trying to build a machine that mimics our flawed, biologically-limited brains, we need to embrace extreme specialization. SAI is about the speed of adaptation. It is an intelligence that can learn to exceed humans at any specific, economically important task. More importantly, it is designed to fill the vast skill gaps where humans are fundamentally incapable. Things like managing global energy grids in real-time. Or predicting complex molecular structures. The entire AI industry is obsessed with building a digital reflection in our own image. LeCun's paper is a brutal wake-up call.

Today, Cohere announced a new partnership with the Government of Québec. Québec has long been one of the most important AI ecosystems in the world. We’re proud to partner with the Government of Québec to support secure, sovereign, Canadian-built AI that reflects the communities it serves and is deployed with the security and control governments require. This is an important step in showing how world-class AI can be built in Canada, adopted in Canada, and used to improve the public services people depend on every day.

YACCCIINNEEEE IM COMING FOR YOU (I DONT KNOW WHAT IM DOING)

@loyalmoses Well, of course they suck. Filament, right off the spool, into the hotend. Working as intended 🫡

In the beginning was the.... Word, you say?

Fun fact: Canada's new AI Strategy includes the word 'indigenous' over 6 times more than 'GPU'

@nonzeroexitcode hmm but how bad is it really for performance? Could it be worth it to add a nice touch to prod? Interesting!

browsers mostly skip updating hover state while you scroll so I made super-hover, a tiny utility library that checks what's under your cursor every frame! `pnpm add super-hover`

OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama Built by Stanford’s @HazyResearch and Scaling Intelligence labs, as part of their “Intelligence Per Watt” research into efficient local AI. @Stanford Learn more in the blog post 👇👇👇

@gabriell_lab Looks good! Will try it out

Since Opus 4.8 is out and more and more designers are getting into Design Engineering, I thought I’d share some of the interaction patterns I use most often: Use proximity, not just hover. When the cursor gets close, nearby elements can subtly scale and darken based on distance. It makes interfaces feel more responsive, less binary, and way more alive onpointermove = e => document.querySelectorAll(".dock>*").forEach(el => { const r = el.getBoundingClientRect(); const t = Math.max(0, 1 - Math.abs(e.clientX - r.x - r.width/2) / 120); el. style.scale = 1 + t * .5; });

After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.

@sahand_io I noticed much more activity and focus for it on linkedin, unfortunately. The Toronto Tech scene needs actual builders. Though I still think things like this creates the necessary buzz and ultimately makes builders more valuable, which can help keep us around.

We went to another Toronto Tech Week event. Walked out before it even started. The crowd was all: GRs, consultants, public relations, 80% in suits. Davos vibes all around.

@agupta how to write better prompts

my prompt for aspiring founders: assume the models reach superintelligence (arguably they have already), don't kill us all, and still require us to prompt them to do things. what are the hardest problems you can now point them at?

@cohere Congratulations

Introducing: Cohere Command A+ We’ve created our most powerful LLM yet, optimized it to run on as little hardware as possible, and released it open-source for all.

@sflorimm Have there been any prominent examples of this?

Can you call yourself a founder if your entire product was built by AI like GPT or CLAUDE ?

@DylanMcMahon Network effects are the hard part. Existing platforms already do the job well enough, and Canadian media is deeply tied into the US/global content ecosystem. A Canada-only social app would need a very specific wedge beyond “for Canadians.”

Canada Social will be the biggest thing in Canada soon. There’s a huge appetite for Canadian social media right now. This could be worth billions.

It runs local-first with a built-in embedding model, with optional Ollama support. Plugin: community.obsidian.md/plugins/semant… Repo: github.com/ysf-ad/semanti… Feedback and stars welcome.

Linking notes in Obsidian is tedious. Can we automate parts of it with embeddings? I shipped an Obsidian plugin a few days ago. It’s nearing 250 downloads and hit #1 on r/ObsidianMD with 25k views. Semantic Auto-Linker suggests missing links, previews graph impact, and lets you explore your vault in 2D/3D semantic space.

@lucaspatiri_ UGC!

I scaled 30+ apps to $100K MRR with zero ad spend. 1.5 billion views generated. $1-2 CPM on average. I'm finally dropping the full UGC playbook. 44 pages. Every step, every price, every tool + viral formats with case studies Lowkey scared to drop this because it's literally what clients pay us $5K-$20K/month for. Reply "UGC" and I'll DM it to you. Must be following so I can DM.

Honored to receive a medal from his Majesty King Abdullah II for Distinction on Jordan’s 80th Independence Day. It’s been an incredibly journey building @Replit, starting from Jordan more than 15 years ago, and then helping accelerate the field of agentic AI globally.