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2 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Contrary to popular belief, AI hype feeds on personality, not stupidity. If you’re uniquely immune to it, it’s not because other people are idiots but because constant exaggeration is tiring, annoying, or irrelevant for a specific type of person. Your type of person. Below are 7 personality traits that make someone immune to AI hype. Which one are you? Low openness to experience is associated with cultural conservatism, which means that you like the status quo and dislike progress (meaning changes).
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
If you think teens spending 2–3 hours a day on TikTok is insane, you haven’t considered this possibility: Short of skipping sleep, young people with no professional duty have up to 12 free hours to melt their attention spans in the scroll mills. But worry not, AI video platforms will make sure you don’t have to imagine what that looks like.
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
From my privileged position as a human being, it’s easy to glimpse the impossibility that grips ChatGPT in its attempt to understand—and perhaps model—the human mind and the human world. Despite having read everything that’s ever been transcribed into ones and zeros and uploaded to the infinite internet, it’s still trivial to make it stumble, lacking even the most mundane human abilities.
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3 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
ARC-AGI 2 is still the most important benchmark: It’s the benchmarks that companies “unintentionally” forget about that you should by all means remember. Chat doesn’t need to be the only AI interface: Chatless and screenless AI. New York Magazine: Google is burying the web alive: Google was once a funnel to the cozy internet but it’s now more like an enshittified interface. We have automated the role of Grand Vizier: ChatGPT’s skillset makes it the best kind of politician (for itself).
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4 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
Earlier this week, Substack’s flagship publication, The Substack Post, reached out to me and other “Top Substackers”—truly an honor—to share some words of wisdom with new graduates.
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4 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
There are two unspoken rules in international geopolitics that hegemonic powers must follow. First: when an adversary pushes, you push; when an adversary pulls, you pull. Second: no single power should dominate the global chessboard so completely that it can do as it pleases. It is ironic, then, that the US has spent the past 35 years exploiting the absence of the second rule but hasn’t had time to learn the first.
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4 weeks ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
This June, The Algorithmic Bridge turns three. To me, this date is more than a birthday—it marks a turning point. When I started this project, I made a deal with myself:Give it three full years. Three full years with all your energy dedicated to making it work. But if you’re not financially independent by then, you must accept defeat, walk away with the dignity of having tried, and find a job. Today, three years later, I’m proud—and a bit emotional—to say: I made it.
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1 month ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
As a wise man once told me, the trouble with AI won’t come from the impossible, but from the almost-true, always lingering on the fringes of reality. The first high-quality AI video has gone viral, in the proper sense of the word: It has reached and fooled millions of people. It features a cute “emotional support” kangaroo being denied access to a plane. As it ends, the video zooms in on the kangaroo and shows him holding the boarding pass.
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1 month ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
When a standard software program doesn’t obey your commands, you restart your computer and go on with your day. When an AI software program does it, you might end up dead. Or worse, blackmailed. That’s what Anthropic researchers found about the recently released Claude 4 Opus and what AI safety organization Palisade Research found about OpenAI o3 models: they won’t comply when threatened to be shut down. In the case of o3, not even when explicitly instructed to allow itself to be shut down.
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1 month ago | 
thealgorithmicbridge.com | Alberto Romero
AI has already stolen enough from us—don’t let it take the em dashes too. I keep running into writers who go into fight or flight mode when faced with the bleak prospect of an AI writing avalanche. They either never use an em dash again, the semicolon, or the Oxford comma; or double down on them—and let’s see if someone dares accuse me of being AI!I think both choices are a mistake. The natural kind, sure, but a mistake nonetheless.