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The State of Technology as We Enter 2025
The State of Technology as We Enter 2025

December 5, 2024

AI agents shifting labor power, impact of Starlink on the future of work, and the evolution of human interactions with auto-translation and live AI voice conversations.

AI Inference Guide: Boost Your Business with Machine Learning
AI Inference Guide: Boost Your Business with Machine Learning

December 1, 2024

Discover how AI inference using trained models can transform your business. Learn about the critical phase of machine learning, environments for execution, and key considerations like performance, scalability, and latency. Optimize your AI applications on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge.

My most critical mistake in decades of studying technology - ignoring fiction
My most critical mistake in decades of studying technology - ignoring fiction

April 30, 2024

As a technologist, I focused on facts and dismissed fiction, believing it irrelevant to technological progress. Reflecting on my career, I now see this as a critical mistake.

AI Dataset Creation is Missing a Piece of the Puzzle: Books are not 2D Objects
AI Dataset Creation is Missing a Piece of the Puzzle: Books are not 2D Objects

February 23, 2024

Books are not 2D objects, and yet, most AI datasets treat them as such. This post explores the limitations of current AI datasets and the potential benefits of incorporating 3D book data into AI training. It stems from a HN thread on Why Writing by Hand is Better for Memory and Learning, from Scientific American. The comments mention epub being a construct.

Shakespearean AI: Alignment by Allegory, Symbolism, and Metaphor
Shakespearean AI: Alignment by Allegory, Symbolism, and Metaphor

February 23, 2024

We may learn more about the nature of AI alignment by studying the allegories, symbolism, and metaphors in Shakespeare's works. This post explores the parallels between AI alignment and Shakespearean themes, shedding light on the complexities of aligning AI with human values.

Technology Disappears as it Advances
Technology Disappears as it Advances

December 15, 2023

As technology continues to advance, it will continue to be less visible, less tangible, and less noticeable.

Rediscovering *Blended Worlds* and *The Flash* by John Henry Van Dyke
Rediscovering *Blended Worlds* and *The Flash* by John Henry Van Dyke

October 25, 2023

Two rare books from Arizona's mining days, written by John Henry Van Dyke and published by the Miami Southern Arizona Publishing Company.

How to get ChatGPT to know about libraries that you use
How to get ChatGPT to know about libraries that you use

October 25, 2023

How do I get it to know about libraries that I use? This is a guide for how to get ChatGPT to know about the libraries that you use, using custom instructions and system messages.

Gödel and the Utility of New Models
Gödel and the Utility of New Models

October 20, 2023

Exploring how Gödel’s incompleteness theorems relate to our current understanding of the utility of new models in AI and philosophy.

Navigating the New Frontier: What You Need to Know About Multimodal AI
Navigating the New Frontier: What You Need to Know About Multimodal AI

May 15, 2023

Multimodality is the next frontier in AI where machines interpret the world through multiple senses, much like humans do. Discover how this technology is reshaping industries and what you need to understand to stay ahead.

Empathy Bots: Ground-Up Alignment with Human Emotion as a Core Modality
Empathy Bots: Ground-Up Alignment with Human Emotion as a Core Modality

May 1, 2023

Considering 'empathy bots'—AI that mimics human emotions. Some thoughts on the benefits and the tricky alignment issues of integrating empathy into AI.