AI and Jobs Primer | Stay Human, Chapter 8 | The Irrational Decision by Benjamin Recht | Conversations on Software Brain and with Larry Irving
First, thank you to those who sent condolences this week after the death of Dave's dad at age
Recent Publications (Page 23)
Angel Acosta: Contemplation, Healing, and AI
An inteview with Angel Acosta, founder of the Acosta Institute.
How Task Skill and Worker Proficiency Interact with GenAI
ChatGPT and similar tools can significantly alter workflows by changing how we match tasks with skills. Think of a two-by-two matrix: on one axis, you have the skill needed for a task; on the other, the worker's proficiency level.
Generative AI’s Undesirable Unpredictability
This week: Generative AI's Undesirable Unpredictability, Sensemaking & AI, Meta-Prompting, Doug Belshaw: Serendipity Surface & AI, Pro: Conversing with AI, Part 1-3, and Pro: February Update.
How to Use Generative AI, Part 3: Explore
Explore all digitized human knowledge by exploring with generative AI. Part 3 in our How to Use Generative AI series.
How to Use Generative AI, Part 2: Prompting
Developing the skill to craft effective prompts is a critical aspect of working with generative AI. It's about understanding what you want, knowing how to articulate that desire in a way the machine understands, and strategically using the AI's strengths to your advantage.
How to Use Generative AI, Part 1
How to go beyond prompting and develop your conversational AI skills. Now, as more AI collaboration is designed inside of applications, do you still need to learn how to prompt? If you want to get the most out of AI, we would say, yes.
Sensemaking & AI
Sensemaking is going to change. AI will allow us to find story-less, a-narrative yet meaningful correlations. Our minds will have to be open to a new kind of awe: that which a machine can make sense of that we cannot.
Meta-Prompting and What it Tells us About a Bias for Code
This research shows how flexible these models are: meta-prompting aids in decomposing complex tasks, engages distinct expertise, adopting a computational bias when using code in real-time which further enhances performance, then seamlessly integrates the varied outputs.
Doug Belshaw: Serendipity Surface & AI
An interview with Doug Belshaw about serendipity surface & AI.
Research Update: February 2024
Slides and videos from our February 2024 research update for Artificiality Pro
Buckle Up: Big Product Changes Ahead
This week: New research and product previews from Apple, Google, and OpenAI; an interview with Richard Kerris of NVIDIA, crafting better promtps, an interview with Tyler Marghetis, and an exploration of generative AI and flow.
Gemini 1.5 Pro: An Ultra-Efficient, Multimodal System
The introduction of Gemini 1.5 Pro's ability to handle unprecedented context lengths, its superior performance compared to its predecessors, and the sustained relevance of power laws in its design underscore the breadth and depth of Google's long term capabilities.