Concepts

Evolution of Technology

  • Threads and the Social/Communications Map

    Understanding Threads and its threat to Twitter means understanding the current landscape of social media.


  • Apple Vision

    Apple Vision is incredibly compelling, first as a product, and second as far as potential use cases. What it says about society, though, is a bit more pessimistic.


  • Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

    Google A/I suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for all of Big Tech; that means the real battle will be between incumbents and Big Tech on one side, and open source on the other.


  • An Interview with Chip War Author Chris Miller

    An Interview with Chip War author Chris Miller about why the U.S. succeeded in chips when the USSR didn’t, globalization and the importance of Taiwan and South Korea, and China’s prospects post chip ban.


  • AI, NIL, and Zero Trust Authenticity

    AI-generated content is not going to harm those with the capability of breaking through: it will make them stronger, aided by Zero Trust Authenticity


  • An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the AI Product Revolution

    An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about the AI product explosion, OpenAI’s emergence as a consumer tech company, Microsoft’s aggressiveness, open source and Apple, and both the risks and opportunities of AI.


  • ChatGPT Gets a Computer

    It’s possible that large language models are more like the human brain than we thought, given that it is about prediction; that is why ChatGPT needs its own computer in the form of plug-ins.


  • From Bing to Sydney

    More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.


  • AI and the Big Five

    Given the success of existing companies with new epochs, the most obvious place to start when thinking about the impact of AI is with the big five: Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.


  • An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about ChatGPT and the Near-Term Future of AI

    An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about ChatGPT and the near-term future of AI, Apple’s huge opportunity, the importance of bias, and the GPU paradox.