Observations on OpenAI, Fractured Identities, and Misplaced Idealism
It’s Not a Book Review, but Books Provided the Inspiration
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OpenAI
A collection of 22 issues
Addicted to the Digital Debris: What Day Traders and Stock-Market Analysts Have in Common
It's Harder than Ever to Step Outside the Flow and Make Sense of It
Why AI is Attracting VC Backing for Software Development
And Why It Might Fall Short of Expectations in Other Areas
Summarizing Last Week’s News This Week
Alibaba Cloud’s Global Push, European Clouds, Anthropic’s Protective Measures, and Sergey Brin’s Threats of Violence Against AI Bots
This Post is About More Than AI, Human Agency, and Click-Bait Headlines
In Praise of Human Thought
Why AI Scenarios Are More Important than Predictions
And Now for A Very Different Take on the DeepSeek Cause Célèbre
A media storm raged in the wake of news that China’s DeepSeek open-source AI models were capable of equaling or surpassing the performance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is decidedly not open source.
In the past few days, arguably too much has been written and said about the emergence
Taking in the Big Picture at OpenAI
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with all the announcements relating to genAI. Something new – funding, partnerships, releases of new or improved LLMs, executive hires, launches of strategic roadmaps – jumps to the front of the queue each day, to be brusquely displaced by something else, often later the same
Why Tech Employment is Not What It Used to Be
When major new technologies arise, the expectation is that prosperity will follow. What’s more, most observers reasonably assume that the wealth will be shared, not evenly – because that never happens – but at least broadly.
For the most part, these expectations and assumption were realized in past information-technology booms, including
On the Long and Costly Road from GenAI to AGI
I read this week that equity strategists are now vigorously debating the market potential of genAI. It's about time. Universal acclamation is always suspect, just as rational debate is always welcome.
As it stands, genAI is performing parlor tricks, especially on Elon Musk’s X, where Grok (from