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Do LLMs really understand language?
The objection that many have against large language models being “intelligent” is that they do not understand the words which they are using (basically, that LLMs manipulate symbols without knowing…
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Jobs of the future
Humans as a species have a remarkable ability to conjure up new jobs almost out of thin air. Eighty years ago, “child care worker” as a formal job title basically…
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Thinking with premises
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident — Arthur Schopenhauer Every founder walks into a pitch…
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The outsider’s advantage
Being back in Australia, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet founders and students tackling important (and oftentimes, crazy) problems. But the startup ecosystem here feels structurally different from the U.S.…
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Large context windows could be changing the rules of software
The graph above shows the tectonic shift happening right now. Context windows (basically how much “input” data a model can ingest at once) have 10x-ed in the past year. That…
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The if-this-then-that economy
The IF-THIS-THEN-THAT era is giving way to an IF-GOAL-THEN-AUTONOMY one. Zapier fundamentally reshaped how small organizations and individual consumers approach automation. It allowed people without programming skills (including myself) to…
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The hidden corridors of AI
Yes, AI is magical when it helps us do more. But it’s more magical when it helps us see differently. Not just the world, but ourselves. As a Harry Potter fan, I…
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Jack Flintoft 