An emergent behavior of large language models: they are better able to respond to “chain of thought” prompts to reason step by step and derive more accurate answers. Google researchers: “We will show that sufficiently large language models can generate […]
I’ve been saying for years that one day millions of consumers will wake up with easy access to glucose data, and it’ll be a remarkable opportunity for nutrition awareness. “The goal of this secret endeavor — dubbed E5 — is […]
Watch this video. He takes an iPhone scan of sports commentator and retired NFL player Ahmad Rashad, then promptly drops him into some NBA game footage where he proceeds to dunk on the Lakers. ~ learn more
“This week, people have started gaining access to it via the waiting list. It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet.” ~ learn more
The concept of emergence is a few decades old at least. It’s fascinating. From an article I shared last year: “When electrons or atoms or individuals or societies interact with one another or their environment, the collective behavior of the whole is […]
“A friend of mine was recently evaluating job offers and one was clearly a startup that was “going bad”. It was clear to me but not to them; I figured I would write a post spelling out some things I […]
Continuing with the “moving things around” theme: Here’s a profile of the tech startup Flexport, a tech-powered freight forwarder who was valued (overvalued?) at $8 billion last year. “It has designs on a bigger prize: owning the data layer for […]
Richard cofounded a tech company in the trucking space a couple years ago. He left pretty quickly, maybe a year in, and now runs a content marketing agency. So he likes to write! “Recently, I’ve been reflecting on my time […]
Thanks to this publication’s EU focus, this article is not about all the same folks who regularly make it into my news feed. ~ learn more
“Mercedes/Daimler plans to start manufacturing this truck in 2024, and it uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.” The last line of this article felt like wisdom: “Refined lithium may be in short supply today, but the cure for high prices […]