Meta’s newest Ray-Ban glasses. I was already impressed by the prior version, though I don’t own a pair. These not only have a built in screen, but also a new control device that’ll probably make or break their success. “Each […]
OpenAI aims to become the Windows of AI. Ben Thompson argues that OpenAI is creating an ecosystem much like Windows in the PC era. “Apps won’t be on your phone or in a browser; they’ll be in ChatGPT, and if […]
Introducing Figure 03. Hey, check out this cool new humanoid robot! “Our goal is to deliver a truly general-purpose robot – one that can perform human-like tasks and learn directly from people. To realize this vision, our engineering and design […]
A bitter lesson for the bitter lesson fanboys. This is a really great interview by Dwarkesh Patel, who I think is really on a roll the past ~year. “Richard Sutton is the father of reinforcement learning, winner of the 2024 […]
Andrej Karpathy’s take on the Richard Sutton interview (above). “So that brings us to where we are. Stated plainly, today’s frontier LLM research is not about building animals. It is about summoning ghosts. You can think of ghosts as a […]
Why Google will win the AI race. “The AI race feels like a sprint right now, with OpenAI grabbing headlines and Meta open-sourcing everything they can. But if you’re placing bets on who wins the marathon, don’t overlook the company […]
Why do AI proof-of-concepts keep failing in corporations? “The researchers found that “AI and radiologist predictions are somewhat correlated, but radiologists don’t take this correlation into account.” This concept of correlated uncertainty represents a fundamental blind spot in how humans […]
Reality is ruining the humanoid robot hype. Over the past several months I’ve entertained some skeptical thoughts on this market, especially with regards to battery life (mentioned in this IEEE Spectrum feature post). There may have to be a “winter” […]
The humanoid thesis. Here’s a bull case for humanoids of the future. “Enter general-purpose humanoids. Humanoids won’t just fill labor gaps, they’ll do it cheaper, faster, and at scale. At a $50,000 unit price, a humanoid robot is already cheaper […]
How are people using ChatGPT? OpenAI published a paper with data. Tutoring + teaching is 10.2% and create an image is 4.2%. ~ learn more