Summer News Roundup: Storm Clouds on the AI Horizon
Private credit’s woes, AI’s pattern blind spot, Meta’s creepy glasses, DeepSeek’s chips, ChatGPT’s work mode, and agentic AI’s energy profligacy.
Topic
Bots
A collection of 18 issues
Drawing a Hard Line Between Token Spend and Token Wastage
CFOs inevitably demand an accounting
AI in an Era of Stupidity
Humans define the technology's purpose and reach.
It’s a Bot World Now
Pondering the implications
On the Eve of the SpaceX IPO
It’s not mission impossible, but separating SpaceX fact from fiction is a daunting challenge.
On AI’s Gremlins and Goblins
Unfortunately, reality is spookier
One Who Rules Them All: A Bad Management Idea Whose Time has Come
The limitations of the AI-squared tech CEO
The Citrini Moment: Not a Fashionable Cocktail, but a Provocative AI Scenario
Between forecasts and fiction
AI Gets Contextual and Pragmatic, Among Other Things
And will there still be a market for your organs (not the musical kind) in the age of Dark Enlightenment?
In the World of Bots, People Still Call the Shots
There’s no bot consciousness, and volition remains a human attribute