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  • Anthropic Founder Interview: Multimodality, AI Assistants, And The Next 2 Years In AI

    Dario Amodei, founder of Anthropic (the company behind Claude.ai, and essentially Amazon’s AI play) recently gave an interview. Obviously at his scale every interview contains some amount of PR-talk, but it’s nonetheless an interesting interview. Here are some key talking points from the conversation: What’s more, he mostly talks with enterprise customers in mind, but…

  • What Led to the AI Boom? A Short Timeline

    I was recently wondering (again) about how we got to where we are: This period of rapid change where AI is developing all these astonishing capabilities. I remember as little as 2 years ago playing around with AI writers (like Jarvis or Copy.AI) and being fundamentally underwhelmed. Then Dall-E happened, which was the first 🤯…

  • Douglas Adams On Technological Progress

    Douglas Adams wrote a famous essay back in 1999 called: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. Since this is a time of drastic technological change, it’s worth recalling “the way these things work” according to Adams:

  • Spin Up Red Cells: What It Means

    To best understand what “spinning up red cells” means, let’s use an example: Changing the way a large bureaucracy works is almost impossible. What you can do however is spin up red cells. In this context, “to spin up red cells” refers to creating independent groups or teams (red cells) within the organization. These groups…

  • What Is Singularity?

    Super simple explanation: Imagine you’re teaching a robot how to be smarter. At first, you’re much smarter than the robot, so you can easily control it. But every day, the robot learns from you and becomes a little smarter. One day, the robot becomes so smart that it starts teaching itself and becomes even smarter,…

  • Summarize YouTube Videos (Fast & Free) With Summarize.tech: Good & Bad Use Cases

    Summarize.tech made big waves this year as a free YouTube video summarize tool driven by AI (ChatGPT). I wanted to know how good it is, and what to best use it. My takeaways:

  • Curated Documentaries

    There are A LOT of documentaries out there, but not many are great. Here’s a site that has curated some topnotch documentaries: https://rocumentaries.com/

  • Dall-E 3 vs Midjourney 5.2 Comparison: Same Prompts, Different Images

    OpenAI just announced they’ll soon roll out a new version of Dall-E. Apart from overall image output improvements, we’ll also be able to generate text, and have ChatGPT-style prompting features which will make it easier to generate to right outputs. I put the same prompts that they used for Dall-E 3 images and ran them…

  • Midjourney Aspect Ratios

    By default Midjourney images are square (aspect ratio: 1:1). But you can modify the aspect ratio with the –ar parameter. Let’s say you want a 16:9 image (like a YouTube video), then you’d just append this to your Midjourney prompt: Common aspect ratios:

  • Adobe Firefly AI Image Gen? Not Impressed

    Tested Adobe Firefly image generation… and I’m not impressed at all. Pictures come out weird (and not good weird. Just awkward AI weird.)

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