https://fortune.com/2025/05/24/duolingo-ai-first-employees-ceo-luis-von-ahn/ As I recently noted in an email to a client, the only use case I’ve seen that is definitively making a difference for orgs is in software development. There’s a lot of people out there using AI as a helper but I won’t get into all the risks and benefits here, because if you’re…
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https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/ He needed to add up a bunch of data across multiple emails – made a video of him flipping through them and then had Gemini extract the data from the video. A good, a brief, read!
I find it fascinating that we really don’t understand how AI (aka LLMs) really work! https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-model
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft
Not mine, just keeping track of it here if I want to refer anyone to it. I especially liked the bits about how to trick the LLMs. https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/3/weird-world-of-llms/
Interesting copy of an internal Google memo. There are a lot of callouts in there for “AI” implementations that are happening outside of the tech biggies… Amazing how much stuff is going on, and how quickly things are progressing. I wonder if we have “AI” helping to write AI yet… It won’t be far off….
https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-software/
https://www.insider.com/chatgpt-passes-medical-exam-diagnoses-rare-condition-2023-4
A list of AI’s. https://theresanaiforthat.com
What are the actual computational costs of training AI language models vs. the historical costs of executing code? Is there real knowledge in things like ChatGPT? Good article. https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2023-02-01/the-ai-crowd-is-mad.html