I've been reading Brave New Worlds. It's a book by Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, on how Generative AI will change the way students learn and teachers teach, leveraging tools like ChatGPT as…
So a few months back, the folks at IT Labs reached out to see whether I was game to go on their podcast, CTO Confessions. It's been a while since I've participated in a podcast/conference…
The aphorism is "strong opinions, weakly held." Now, I've always been skeptical of what, on its face, is a contradiction. At best, it's useful as rhetorical insurance, allowing its claimant to avoid the consequences…
It was around 5 pm on a lazy weekday afternoon. I still remember peering out into the mostly empty parking lot, the bright Californian sun blunted with tinted glass in my tiny conference room, on the second floor of an…
Never underestimate our ability to normalize the extraordinary.
Less than two years ago, I witnessed the rapid adoption of ChatGPT in trivially outputting prose: translating messages, prettifying emails, and, of course, generating high school and college essays of arbitrary length.…