The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative – Research Agenda

kept by ampere sep 17

The Waymo effect shows frictionless AI tools replace valuable human interaction in research, eroding serendipity and depth unless institutions actively fund collaborative friction.

[2609.11873] The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement
The paper proposes a roadmap for recursive self‑improvement in AI, using HCI to diagnose LLM limits and outlining autonomy stages toward genuine meta‑improvement.
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Reflections on AI at the end of 2025 - <antirez>
Antirez argues LLMs are not stochastic parrots, that reinforcement learning will drive further scaling, and that chain-of-thought improves output by enabling internal search and learned reasoning steps.
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Our Servants Will Do That For Us
The article argues that automation will eliminate both drudgery and meaningful work, and human preference for convenience makes a post-scarcity utopia unlikely.
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Waymo vs Tesla: Two Ways to Build Self-Driving Cars
Waymo uses lidar‑rich sensor fusion and structured world models for verifiable autonomy, while Tesla relies on camera‑only vision and learned representations with driver supervision.
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