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On jagged AGI.

“You might find yourself “feeling the AGI” as well. Or maybe not. Maybe the AI failed you, even when you gave it the exact same prompt I used. If so, you just encountered the jagged frontier. My co-authors and I […]

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AI 2027. “We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of the Industrial Revolution. We wrote a scenario that represents our best guess about what that might look like. It’s informed […]

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The case against conversational interfaces.

They need not replace things that work very well (buttons), but they should augment them. “Users should be able to trigger actions from anywhere with simple voice prompts without having to interrupt whatever they are currently doing with mouse and […]

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USV’s slow hunch.

A rare interview with Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham. “Since founding USV in 2003, Fred and Brad have backed companies like Twitter, Etsy, Cloudflare, and Coinbase while developing an investment thesis focused on enabling new forms of value creation through […]

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AI is stifling tech adoption.

Of course AI assistants lower the bar for who can code and how quickly, expanding the universe of people who can create software. Yet as more code-writing comes through this pipeline, it also creates a choke point for the underlying […]