In the history of computing, standards always seem to emerge and supercharge development (USB anyone?). From Anthropic: “Today, we’re open-sourcing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives, including content […]
“Our study found that acoustic environments contain enough visual cues to generate highly recognizable streetscape images that accurately depict different places,” said Yuhao Kang, assistant professor of geography and the environment at UT and co-author of the study.” ~ learn […]
“The PRD contains the output of a conversation between product & engineering – what is to be built within a few leaves of digital paper. Perhaps similar to the conversation one might have with a chatbot about a product feature.” […]
After news of GPT improvements slowing down broke, the famous machine learning scientist who some call a skeptic writes: “For years I have been warning that “scaling” — eeking out improvements in AI by adding more data and more compute, […]
This is a podcast interview with Joe Lonsdale. “In this episode, Elad takes us behind the scenes of the early days of Google and Twitter, and how Silicon Valley culture has evolved. He explains his three categories of exceptional founders […]
“To paraphrase Moravec’s paradox, winning a game of chess or discovering a new drug represent “easy” problems for AI to solve, but folding a shirt or cleaning up a table requires solving some of the most difficult engineering problems ever […]
“This is the condensed version of the “Fireside Chat: With Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI Today and Vision of the Future (March 2023)”” ~ learn more
“In other words, the billions that AWS spent on building data centers is a lasting defense. The billions that OpenAI spent on building prior versions of GPT is not, because better versions of it are already available for free on […]
The test was a computerized business strategy game that researchers invented. It outperformed by taking on risk. “Both GPT-4o and executives succumbed to the same flaw — overconfidence in a system that rewards flexibility and long-term thinking as much as […]
“It’s easy to forget how long it takes for new tech to gain widespread adoption. Consider the personal computer. The first PCs hit the market in the mid-1970s, but they didn’t become household staples until the late 1990s. In 1984, […]