First Principles of AI
References
Papers and sources cited in the talk.
Reasoning
Abductive reasoning (Peirce)
Wikipedia
How good is AI at it?
High Consistency, Limited Accuracy: LLMs for Binary Medical Diagnosis
Anggriani et al., medRxiv 2025
How Far Are LLMs from Professional Poker Players?
Lin et al., ICLR 2026
Why LLMs can’t play chess
Nico Westerdale
Mastermind vs LLM
github.com/DanieldeR/mastermind
The Einstein Test
LLMs can’t jump
Tom Zahavy, Google DeepMind, Jan 2026
Hassabis on the Einstein Test
Y Combinator interview, 2026
Hassabis AGI timeline (WSJ profile)
via AI Weekly, 2026
The Einstein Test
Nature, 2026
Machina Mirabilis (GPT-1900)
Michael Hla
GPT-1900 project log
GitHub
Automation
Is It Worth the Time? (1205)
xkcd