Negotiating with a strange peer ..
An under-appreciated facet of LLMs is just how *weird* they are.
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Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
Melanie Mitchell on the Turing Test
From "The Turing test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence" by Melanie Mitchell.
Read essayThe Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor
In times of rapid change, fiction serves as a reflective lens, casting light on current anxieties and offering insights beyond simple commentary. "The
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 essayThe Future is Here..
It's just not very evenly distributed ..
Read essayBook Review – A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
“A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout is a short and thought-provoking book about practical software development.
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 essayBen Thomson’s “4 Horsemen of the Tech Recession”
In the last month, we have had huge layoffs across technology, yet the "real economy" seems robust. What is going on?
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