Posts tagged with Thoughts
Asian-American Cinema
A couple of months back, we turned on the Oscar awards, I think for the first time in well over a decade, mostly to see how Everything Everywhere All at Once would fare that evening. Given that the movie had…
Review: Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly is a tech-focused author and writer, the first executive editor of Wired , and is known for being an optimistic and enthusiastic futurist. His latest book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier…
AI Engineering Validation
Product development around AI is accelerating. Just in March alone: OpenAI launched GPT-4; MidJourney upgraded its art generator to V5; Microsoft announced AI integrations into its Office 365 suite; Google formally launched its Bard AI into beta; Adobe launched…
Year in Review — 2022
Compared to the year-long economic celebration of cheap capital in 2021, the contrast to 2022 is stark: raising interest rates, high inflation, a battered stock market, mass layoffs—and this is with a strong US economy with persistently low…
Our Obsession with Ranking
We, as humans, are obsessed with ranking things. I mean, sports are one of the ultimate expressions of ranking. They're about fostering competition to find the best athletes to play a game defined by sets of arbitrary rules,…
Asking an AI the Right Questions
It feels like 2022 is the year of democratizing AI. GPT-3 made headlines back in 2020 when it launched to a limited audience and its new users played around with the tool, but it took a little over a…
