Sitemap - 2024 - Buy the Rumor; Sell the News

Resistance and Progress: The Clash of Technology and Tradition

Benefits Matter More Than Features, Most of the Time

Flourishing in the AI slop mines

Understanding Inference and the "Stochastic Parrot" in Large Language Models

AI Benchmarking: Measuring Progress Toward Smarter AI

Hype vs Reality: The Future of Autonomous AI Agents

Why a GPU Futures Market is Unlikely to Develop

Stripe's Vision for the Future of Payments: AI Agents & Stablecoins

GPT wrapper startups are risky

What happens to institutionalists in a world of advanced AI?

A path forward for AI startups

What's happening with AI regulations?

Cost reductions in training large language models

What happens when token costs decline to zero?

"This Time is Different": Will AI end up like the telecom bust?

What does Dario Amodei get wrong in his essay Machines of Loving Grace?

Why don't AI doomers short the market?

Asteroid Mining: Trillionaires or Commodity Collapse?

Amazon's international ambitions may be thwarted

How will AI agents pay for their transactions?

UiPath, Zapier, and the future of automation in an AI-driven world

The real world does not change as quickly as AI changes

The AI Divide: The 'AI Rich' vs. The 'AI Poor'

Google's NotebookLM is a great product that will die on the vine

AI will force a reckoning for doctors and lawyers

OpenAI converts to a B corp; Gov Newsom vetoes AI legislation

OpenAI is not dying

The conventional mindset versus A(G)I

Prediction markets and Caroline Ellison's jail sentence

Being an intermediary between a LLM and an enterprise is a hard row to hoe

AI link dump for September 17th 2024

Initial thoughts about OpenAI's o1-preview model, f/k/a 'Strawberry'

Against AI & crypto

AI agents will use crypto to transact with one another

AI consulting is (generally) a dead end for the little guy

Is data the new oil?

Investing in AI startups is hard

AI is a complement to human labor

The power constraint for AGI is not easily resolved

Legacy companies will struggle with AI

AI link dump: AI & spreadsheets; AI & software development; AI & mining

AI adoption in enterprise

AI expectations vs market realities

The AI revolution will come at a later date

Where are the AI revenues?

AI Link dump: AI & creativity; AI regulation & political economy; AI & power generation

The transformative potential of AI search

I'll know it's AGI when I see it

Are we running out of data on the road to AGI?

Thoughts on Leopold Aschenbrenner's short AGI timeline

Jargon can confuse or enhance your messaging

Going viral on Twitter amidst AI angst

Finding customers and validating the market for your tech startup

AI & knowledge work

OpenAI's Model Spec

The AI agent market is crowded and commoditized

Enterprises aren't buying AI tech

Selling to cold prospects in a culturally atomized age

AI agents: a practical application for marketing & sales

Things I'm thinking about

AI agents are like Unix pipelines

AI expertise is a double-edge sword

The AI market as of April 2024

Large language models are modern day operating systems

How will OpenAI grow its revenues?

LLMs hallucinate. How can large enterprises overcome this?

Specialized language models

Tyler Cowen on Claude 3 Opus & AGI

How startups can penetrate the enterprise AI market

Legacy tech companies will control enterprise AI

Every company will be an AI company

OpenAI has a revenue problem

Is scale all you need?

AI links: Microsoft eats writers?; Meddling legislators; Chinese chiplets

AI & job displacement: navigating the future of work

AI & job displacement: navigating the future of work

Feed me GPUs

Where is the profit in AI?

What happens to software as AI becomes more powerful?

Commoditization & Competition in AI

OpenAI and the commoditization trap

If AI is a commodity, where is the value?

AGI is not imminent

How writers use ChatGPT for research

AI won't steal our jobs. It will change how we work.

AI & productivity in healthcare

What happens to work in our AI future?

Where is the moat in AI?

AI possibilities at the edge. Also: the broken VC industry

What if AI is like aioli?

What happens when software arises from AI?

Where is the AI revolution?

If AI makes companies more productive, can it predict which stocks I should buy?

AI link dump: politicians & AI; doctors & AI; corporations & AI; lawyers & AI

When will AI disrupt everything?