It was almost 11 at night when the founder called me. “I don’t know why I’m having problems with this project,” he said in lieu of greeting. “Why is this all so hard? I don’t understand why this is all so hard.” I had no context regarding
“It isn’t generative AI; it’s assistive AI.” “It’s all about assistive AI vs. generative AI.” “It’s simple: Assistive AI is good. Generative AI is bad.” I’ve been seeing it a lot lately. Maybe you have, too. The first time I saw it, I just shrugged.
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OpenAI’s continued quest to render all of us redundant has a new release: ChatGPT 4o with Canvas. 4o with Canvas adds an interactive sheet to the ChatGPT UI, iteratively collaborating with the user and introducing an array of coding and writing-specific features. And it’s admittedly pretty impressive. To
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Previously, I thought to test OpenAI’s new model, o1-preview (Strawberry) on logic puzzles. But I also recalled that there’d been some conversation around the fact that the new models might be able to, well, lie — intentionally. QUESTION: Green you live, red you die Q: You can send a
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A couple of months ago, researchers noted that there was an extremely simple logic puzzle that nearly every AI would fail to solve: “Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?” While the answer (M + 1) is obvious to most
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Is the sky falling? Is the bubble bursting? Are we chicken little, viewing the portents of a vast and illusory threat — or are we the android boy who cried cyborg wolf, loudly broadcasting a very real and impending collapse[1]? A week ago, I set out to more deeply understand
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If you’re like most organizations, your data has become almost entirely decoupled from your broader strategy. This isn’t a revelation; it isn’t controversial: around 60% of companies are still basing decisions on “gut feel” rather than the veritable wealth of information at their disposal. And you know,
OpenAI’s continued quest to render all of us redundant has a new release: ChatGPT 4o with Canvas. 4o with Canvas adds an interactive sheet to the ChatGPT UI, iteratively collaborating with the user and introducing an array of coding and writing-specific features. And it’s admittedly pretty impressive. To
Is the sky falling? Is the bubble bursting? Are we chicken little, viewing the portents of a vast and illusory threat — or are we the android boy who cried cyborg wolf, loudly broadcasting a very real and impending collapse[1]? A week ago, I set out to more deeply understand
If you’re like most organizations, your data has become almost entirely decoupled from your broader strategy. This isn’t a revelation; it isn’t controversial: around 60% of companies are still basing decisions on “gut feel” rather than the veritable wealth of information at their disposal. And you know,
Deep tech in the shallow web. Generalized disclaimer: I have not thought deeply enough about any of these opinions for them to be influenced by any organization I have worked for or around.
As early as grade school, you learned to cite your sources. If you’re as old as I am, you were told not to use Wikipedia — slightly older still, and you may have engaged in a battle of wills regarding Microsoft Encarta. But the rationale was the same: Know where
OpenAI has officially announced GPT-4o, the newest model of its popular chatbot service. GPT-4o will be available for free and offer superior audio and visual processing. Perhaps most notably, GPT-4o can detect emotions—in voice and face—and respond in kind. During the demo, GPT-4o solved linear equations, sang a
It's 2024 and I don't think anyone, at this point, is arguing that social media is good for us. I'm not going to bother citing this one: If you're spending more than a few hours a day on social media, hands up
The protective spirit of the silo should be maintained, while leaders take on the additional cognitive burden of managing them as a whole and holistic system.
I've been using AI to augment my writing and editing for four years now. When people find out, the responses are always similar: a fine split between "You can't be a very good writer, then." and "How? I only get absolute trash back.
How gig work and the indomitable human spirit are confusing a dire economic machine. “If we find that consumers or businesses are really starting to feel like that long-term level of inflation … is creeping up, if that’s their expectation, we’ve got to act, and we’ve got to
Maybe a gig marketplace based on Victorian-era piecework wasn’t the right strategy for a global economy. For a long time, really the longest time, the average person hunted, gathered, or farmed. Still today, some communities spend most of their time growing food — and there’s always the homesteaders on