Melanie Mitchell
melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Melanie Mitchell
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.

Website: https://melaniemitchell.me

Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
AI expert says "in three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being."

The AI expert? Marvin Minsky in 1970.
November 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
With a new character called “Izzy”, the cast names have more ‘z’s than a scrabble championship.
November 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
😅
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
😂
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Same.
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Unfortunately (IMO) conferences in AI such as NeurIPS and ICLR play the role played top journals in other fields.
November 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Is "incremental" used as a paper-killer term in reviews in other fields?
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I appreciate your overall point, but just to push back on "this is such a new field" -- AI as a field has been around for at least 70 years, and universities have been training AI researchers for most of that time.
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is not to say that such "role-playing" can't be dangerous in and of itself. In fact, role-playing is a key method for AI "jail-breaking". But that's not the same thing as a "survival drive".
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It's a difficult and uncertain time for science in the U.S. and worldwide, so communicating the ideas and results of science to the general public has never been more essential.

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October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM