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The Eternal Thrift Store
Like thrift stores, the new AI systems are chaotic, weird—and ultimately human.
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Treat AI like Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday
AI needs mentorship, not commands. Here’s how we can help it—and ourselves—grow.
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Nobody Knows Anything (Still)
Some thoughts on AI at the end of 2024—and one great link about the beauty of non-AI tech.
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A Few Quick AI Links Before Thanksgiving
Teaching robots, brutalist architecture, saving squirrels, and more.
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AI Links, Now With Commentary
AI and the career ladder, big tech’s training data struggles, and more.
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Crunching the AI Numbers
The computer gives us information we can process and use—and then we decide what gets written down.
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A Comforting Software Mess
Claude’s new “computer use” feature is reassuringly janky—you can see all the pieces clanking noisily along.
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Three Quick, Useful AI Links
An AI tutorial from Ethan Mollick, a helpful tool from Google, and more.
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Building Is Better Than Chatting
GenAI works best when you can combine its outputs with problem-solving code.
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Four Terror-Free Ways to Talk About AI
New technologies are hard for humans to grasp in the best of times, and the tail of 2024 is not the best of times.
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