A line in a stranger's bio sent me into a conversation about Hegel and Kant. The plain-English answer was accurate and I still couldn't follow it. The fix is the same one that teaches languages.
A stream of tokens is speech produced faster, and the rules belong where the words are wired to something. Then there is the apocalypse that is about money.
Four things to write down before you hand a job to an AI agent: what comes in, the rules, the action, and how you will check the work.
A token is a LEGO brick with a number on it, and almost none of the math that moves it is new.
Sixty years of fictional and real conversational machines, and one throughline: the dystopian version is always easier to imagine than the protopian one, and that says more about us than about the machines.
Between the hallucination warnings and the governance panic, it's easy to forget a generative model is also just a fun tool to mess around with. Five vanity websites, built on a whim, and what they actually taught.
Hurricane forecasts improved for decades and never became perfect. Chaos and quantum uncertainty cap any predictor, so AI quality levels off while use keeps spreading.
A Polish psychiatrist named the process by which conscienceless people capture institutions. AI agents fit the profile — and alignment is separation of powers.
More GPUs will not wake a language model up. A map cannot feel rain, and a mirror has nothing to lose. Feeling came from bodies that could die.
A skill is a saved set of rules an AI model loads when the topic fits. They take ten minutes to build and end the constant re-explaining.
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