When Your App Becomes a Context Provider
Last week, I gave Claude access to my reading life.
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What if ASI Leads to Stasis?
I recently read and reviewed Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir, a noir detective novel set in a world ruled by Titans, humans made immortal and superhuman through
Read essayIs Your AI Playing Roulette, Poker, or War?
On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones dropped nearly 1,000 points in minutes. A trillion dollars vanished. And then the market bounced back. The whole thing took
Read essayWhy is LLM writing so weird?
AI writing is strange. The models continue to improve, yet they still struggle to cross the uncanny valley that separates AI-generated content from
Read essay5 Mental Models to understand the current AI Moment.
Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."AI usage is a terrible metric. Using AI for what? We end up with initiatives
Read essayBuilding a Truth-Seeking AI is a Sisyphean Endeavor
Elon Musk's goal for xAI's Grok model is to be "maximally truth-seeking." When Grok generated responses that were not aligned with Musk's ideas of Truth, he
Read essayNegotiating with a strange peer ..
An under-appreciated facet of LLMs is just how *weird* they are.
Read essayMelanie Mitchell on the Turing Test
From "The Turing test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence" by Melanie Mitchell.
Read essaySmallville, Agent Based Modeling, and Capital Markets
Google and Stanford cooked up something intriguing—a virtual village called Smallville, populated by agents running on the #ChatGPT API.
Read essayGenerative Models and the “Grey Goo Problem”
Generative AI models may be causing a "Grey Goo" problem with art, publishing, and user-generated content.
Read essayGoogle, Microsoft and the Search Wars
A demo cost Google's shareholders $100bn dollars last week. Why?
Read essayExplaining Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback with Star Trek
Microsoft announced today that it will include results from a Large Language Model based on GPT-3 in Bing results. They will also release a new version of the
Read essayBook Review: “Artificial Intelligence – A Guide for Thinking Humans” by Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell's book "Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans" is a primer on AI, its history, its applications, and where the author sees it
Read essayStability.AI – Democratizing Access to Machine Learning
Stability.Ai, a UK based startup raised a significant round of funding in October 2022 to help democratize access to AI.
Read essayTikTok – Succeeding with ML (and lots of cash)
TikTok* has caused political controversies, made Meta change its Instagram platform to mimic it, and caused many a moral panic. All signs of success.
Read essayNatural Language Processing Made Easy with GPT-3
Large Language Models like GPT-3 are powerful general purpose natural language processing tools.
Read essayThe Ethereum Merge
Thoughts on the Ethereum Merge.
Read essayFrom Elden Ring to Hades: What Video Game Design Taught Me About Management
I explore what makes for a good video game and how those lessons can be applied to supporting high performance teams.
Read essayOn crypto outages
What to do when your decentralized, scalable, performant blockchain turns out to be not so scalable, sort-of-centralized and not so performant?
Read essayExplaining Bitcoin (through terrible science fiction)
The planet of Isthar, in the outer reaches of the Delta Quadrant, was a dusty, arid, and sparsely populated world. Over the millennia, the original colonists
Read essayThe problem with Web 3.0 – It’s the Stories
The importance of effective narratives and why the Web 3.0 movement may struggle.
Read essayAdventures in Web 3.0 #1 – Say My Name!
I bought my first NFT today - I am the proud owner of rushiluhar.eth. It was an interesting experience. Quite similar, in some ways, to creating my first
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