Skillenai
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 respond to Ryan’s theory and offer my own perspective on the question of whether LLMs can synthesize new […]
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 every day on my family, including myself, my kids, and my wife. We are […]
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 enough: just rapidly scale out climate technologies like renewables, EVs, heat pumps, alternative proteins, and low carbon concrete and […]
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: Content creation makes economic sense when search engines send large amounts of free traffic that can be converted to ad revenue by the creator. […]
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 mid-April 2023. That’s why I was completely shocked to discover that data science job postings in June 2023 almost never mentioned […]
Google has a long history of creating waves in the tech world with its innovative ideas and algorithms. Its latest venture, the Search Generative Experience (SGE), is no different. On paper, it’s an ambitious move that aims to evolve the way users engage with search results by offering AI-generated mini-articles. However, it also raises questions […]