Jared Rand

70 posts

Can LLMs Synthesize New Knowledge?

My old friend Ryan Casey posed this question recently, and wrote up a nice theory with a proposed solution to the question which he calls Probabilistic Knowledge Synthesis (PKS). The purpose of my post here is to…

September 26, 2024

How AI Can Disrupt Social Media and End Addiction

Social media is the new nicotine. The Surgeon General already declared as much for youth in May, and as of yesterday is being urged by 42 state attorneys general to do so for adults as well. I see it's toxic effect…

September 12, 2024

Climate Tech Is About To Get Desperate

The new reality is that the next wave of climate tech investments will be bold, outlandish, desperate, and probably dangerous. In 2022 the world had a viable path towards solving climate change. The recipe was simple…

May 6, 2024

AI Search Will Break the Internet

The contract between creators and distributors of digital content is broken. The Contract Since the dawn of the Internet, the basic contract between search engines and content creators has been this: 1. Search engines…

March 30, 2024

Where are all the generative AI job postings?

The data science blogging community has been fascinated with generative AI over the last few months, proven by the fact that a peak of almost 14% of all data science articles mentioned ChatGPT in midApril 2023. That's…

July 6, 2023

Most Prolific Data Science Bloggers of 2023 H1

A thriving community of data science bloggers has been extremely active in the first half of 2023, helping us all come to grips with the revolutionary advances in generative AI such as ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and…

June 26, 2023

Product Roadmap: Reading Lists

Opportunity The community of data science content creators is bustling right now as the whole world's eyes are on the rapid advancement of AI. Some try their hand at writing articles for sites like Towards Data Science,…

June 17, 2023