Will HEY Work?
The dust has settled. Now what?| every.to
by Nathan Baschez in Divinations If you want to understand how AI progress will unfold over the coming decade, a good historical analogy is the cat-and-mouse dynamic that ruled the PC industry in the 1980s and ’90s. Back then, computers were good enough to attract millions of users, but their limited speed and storage were often a pain. Demand for increased performance was enormous. But just as soon as new generations of more powerful computers were released, developers quickly built applic...|
by Nathan Baschez in Divinations I have ambitious goals and I work hard. I like this about myself! But honestly? I struggle with the anxiety and restlessness that seem to come with the territory. Perhaps you can relate. Do you ever find yourself, at the end of a long week, wondering why you’re baseline stressed so often? Like you have no time for anything? Case in point: I spent an embarrassing amount of money on an espresso machine a few years ago, and I hardly use the dang thing. Too much...|
by Nathan Baschez in Divinations AI critics say that the technology is all hype. They are wrong. I’ll show five categories of products that are a) currently possible, and b) I am extremely excited to use, hopefully soon. I’ve become familiar with what GPT-3 is capable of by building Lex. I spend a lot of time writing prompts, and seeing what it gets right and what its limits are. It reminds me of when the iPhone first came out: if you paid attention, it was easy to see that transformati...|
by Nathan Baschez in Divinations “What will the internet look like when it is populated to a greater extent by soulless material devoid of any real purpose or appeal?” wrote Atlantic senior technology editor Damon Beres this week. Beres’s concern is that media corporations less scrupulous than his own are beginning to pollute the internet with cheap, machine-synthesized content. He argues we’re headed towards a dystopian future that looks an awful lot like the dead-internet conspiracy...|
by Nathan Baschez in Divinations The past three months since we launched Lex have been wild. I’ve been heads down doing all the mundane (and fun!) things you need to do to transform an app from an exciting toy into an essential tool—talking to users, fixing bugs, tweaking the funnel, and building features. Meanwhile, the hype around AI has kept growing. There are tens of thousands of smart builders who want to launch startups in AI, and an even greater number of engineers and product lead...|
by Nathan Baschez in Divinations Business is filled with physics metaphors: Porter’s “five forces,” Helmer’s “seven powers,” startup accelerators, organizational inertia, wedges, leverage, momentum—I could go on. Businesspeople are attracted to physics jargon because it makes them sound smart. But on a deeper level, it makes the world feel more predictable and in our control. It reminds us that mere mortals have built machines that put men on the moon and bought them safely back...|
If you’re building the tech equivalent of balsamic strawberry ice cream, don’t expect vanilla scale| every.to
What happens when “the algorithm” is just a prompt to GPT-4?| every.to
How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots that tell me what to do| every.to
Rating my predictions from 2020: what worked, what didn’t, and what I learned along the way| every.to
