There’s a lot of great research on foundation models these days that are yielding deeper understanding of their mechanics (how they work) and phenomenology (how they behave in different scenarios). But despite a growing body of research literature, in my work at Notion and conversations with founders, I’ve noticed a big gap between what we currently know about foundation models and what we still need to build valuable tools out of them. This post is a non-exhaustive list of applied resear...| thesephist.com
For a long time, global supply of energy was limited by the total number of humans in the world. We could only put more energy to work by creating more humans, or by each human working more.| thesephist.com