by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Midjourney/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- A good rule of thumb for a good software business is the toothbrush test: Is your product good enough for people to use at least twice a day? But AI agents are creating a new test, what I’m calling the magic minimum: Can your product periodically deliver enough unexpected value to be irreplaceable, even if users only engage with it once or twice a month...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Midjourney/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- When an infant is born, they are completely dependent on their caregivers to survive. They can’t eat, move, or play on their own. As they grow, they learn to tolerate increasingly longer separations. Gradually, the caregiver occasionally and intentionally fails to meet their needs: The baby cries in their crib at night, but the parent waits to see if th...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Large language models aren’t always right. Their strength—for now—is mimicry and prediction rather than accuracy. But as Dan Shipper writes in this essay from March 2023, these models are only as good as the knowledge they have access to. With OpenAI’s Dev Day set for Oct. 1 and Every taking a quarterly Think Week, we thought this was a great time to republish Dan’s essay about AI and reasoning. Also: We created eight cust...|
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by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Inspired by recent AI & I guest Nadia Asparouhova, Dan Shipper is away on a Jhana meditation retreat. In lieu of him saying, well, anything this week, we’re republishing his piece from last fall about the importance of context in building products. It’s a topic on which Thesis writer Tina He recently co-wrote a paper in regards to LLMs—we’ll have more to say on it soon.—Kate Lee Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign u...|
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On the ground at the Microsoft Build conference with CTO Kevin Scott| every.to
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought ChatGPTEvery illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- Imagine a neighborhood diner: chrome-edged counters, white enamel mugs, phonebook-thick laminated menus, and, of course, cakes posing in the stage lights of the glass display case near the front. You bounce in at 7 a.m., fresh from a run, and settle down in a red pleather booth that goes fwhump when you sit. A waiter passes by with a pot of hot coffee—he ca...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.There’s a certain irony in re-publishing a piece about not repeating yourself, but Dan Shipper’s essay from last year is particularly apt while we wrap up second-quarter planning at Every. One area of focus is how to use AI to capture commonly given feedback so we can focus on more complex issues. The reality is that for all of us, much of our daily work consists of repetition—whether that’s founders telling their origin sto...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.It’s the last day of Every’sthinkweek—our quarterly time to dream up new ideas and products that can help us improve how we do our work and, more importantly, your experience as a member of our community. In lieu of publishing new stories, we’ve beenre-uppingpieces by Dan Shipper (who’s been on hiatus from writing his regular Chain of Thought column to work on a longer piece) that cover basic, powerful questions about AI. ...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.The world has changed considerably since our last ”think week” five months ago—and so has Every. We’ve added new businessunits, launchednewproducts, and brought on new teammates. So we've been taking this week to come up with new ideas and products that can help us improve how we do our work and, more importantly, your experience as a member of our community. In the meantime, we’re re-upping four pieces by Dan Shipper that...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.The world has changed considerably since our last ”think week”five months ago—and so has Every. We’ve added new businessunits, launchednewproducts, and brought on new teammates. So we’re taking this week to come up with new ideas and products that can help us improve how we do our work and, more importantly, your experience as a member of our community. In the meantime, we’re re-upping four pieces by Dan Shipper that cov...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- A wave of recentarticles proclaims the death of deep learning. Leaked reports suggest OpenAI's new model Orion finished training without showing nearly the improvement that GPT-4 achieved over GPT-3. Critics like Gary Marcus are already writing gloating eulogies.So, is AI progress slowing down? No. Let me tell you why. My nephew is 2 years old. Over the la...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- I always love an article that confirms my priors, so I was particularly excited to read Paul Graham’s latest essay, "Writes and Write-Nots."In case you missed the piece, he argues that writing is an extension of thinking. He believes that as a skill, writing well is already very unequally distributed. And in a world with AI, where your writing is instant...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.In my piece last week about five new thinking styles for working with thinking machines, I wrote about why it is important, in the age of AI, to think in terms of sequences rather than essences: learning to cope with dynamic contexts rather than trying to locate fixed, discoverable truths. This week I’m covering a practical application of this thinking style. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox....|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- A world with thinking machines requires new thinking styles. Our default thinking style in the West is scientific and rationalist. When was the last time you heard someone talking about a hypothesis or theory in a meeting? When was the last time, when sitting down to solve a problem, you reminded yourself to think from first principles? When was the last ...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Yesterday was OpenAI’s DevDay, and ICYMI, Dan Shipper published his first impressions right out of the gate. His overall takeaway: The company behind ChatGPT has made important incremental progress on the path to GPT-5. Watch out for more analysis from Dan later this week. In the meantime, we’re revisiting his essay from 11 months ago, shortly after OpenAI’s first-ever developer conference, in which he captured San Francisco...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. --- I’m at OpenAI’s developer conference, DevDay, today in San Francisco. Here’s what I saw. The big news is that the company launched a Realtime API that promises to allow anyone to build functionality similar to ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode within their own app. Paired with their new model o1, released a few weeks ago, OpenAI is creating an new way to ...|
by Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought DALL-E/Every illustration.Large language models are perhaps the ultimate study buddy, that one thing that might help you actually absorb information while you’re reading. That’s Dan Shipper’s vision, as outlined in this essay from March 2023. Dan’s essay from last year stands out as a prescient reflection on what’s come since. And with OpenAI’s Dev Day set for October 1 and Every taking a quarterly Think Week, we thought it was ripe to republish ...|
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