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LLMs echo Steve Jobs' vision for the future of computing
Steve Jobs in 1977 talking about (Apple) computers is a great way to describe GPT-4, ChatGPT, and other advancements in LLMs today: There's this…
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Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
This close-up look at their working relationship really highlights how dedicated both the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and the legendary editor are…
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A tale of two Mike Webbs
Intel took AMD to court in 1990 after receiving confidential documents about the AM386 chip due to a mix-up involving two men named Mike Webb staying at…
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Breaking Conventions and Redefining Gaming: The Legend of Zelda's Lessons for Product Managers
In the development of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the creators focused on breaking conventions and rediscovering the essence of the game by…
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GPT-4 and the rise of general intelligence
In a recent paper, researchers have investigated an early version of OpenAI's GPT-4, a large language model that demonstrates a remarkable level of…
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Generative agents that simulate human behavior
Generative agents powered by large language models can simulate believable human behavior in interactive environments similar to The Sims. They can make…
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Use AI to ask questions about your network
…Integral, an AI-powered assistant that lets you ask questions about your network using Slack, email, and contacts Unlike traditional search, it…
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OpenAI's product velocity
OpenAI’s Evan Morikawa: DALL·E - July '22 ChatGPT - Nov '22 API's 66% cheaper - Aug '22 Embeddings 500x cheaper while SoTA - Dec '22 ChatGPT API. Also…
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Minds as compression engines
Some people argue AI is not intelligence, just information compression But I have often thought that our own minds are compression engines: ideas are…
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On starting startups in an economic downturn
Cost-sensitive customers can be helpful in the early days of your company. If they pay you in this tough environment, it's a stronger signal. There’s a…
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Will LLMs kill cold outreach?
From Brett Gibson: LLMs are poised to burn whatever commons are left for entirely cold outreach. Unless something comes from a known social graph or…
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GPT-4 Developer Livestream
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