Writing by Viksit Gaur
Survival for sale: 3 ways AI turns climate disaster into a business model — without us noticing
When disaster strikes, AI won’t ask who deserves to be saved. It’ll ask: who paid for priority access? There’s an old machine learning story: the U.S. military trained an algorithm to spot enemy tanks. It aced tests but failed in the real world. Why…
Thoughts on Dwarkesh’s essay on fully automated firms: 8 implications of a post AGI world
When expertise becomes copy-paste, the architecture of civilization will no longer built around humans. It’ll be around the servers and power grids that make infinite intelligence possible. Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent recent essay lays out what…
What Kraftwerk did for music, AI will do for engineering: free us to create with empathy
In the 1970s, people thought synthesizers would kill music. Instead, Kraftwerk made it more human. When Kraftwerk released Autobahn in 1974, critics feared the worst. Here was a band ditching traditional instruments for cold, mechanical synths. Wasn…
The future of AI isn't the cloud, its in your pocket. And DeMo just made it possible.
We’ve been building AI backwards: training giant models in data centers and squeezing them onto devices. What if the future of AI works the other way around? For years, the AI blueprint has been stuck on repeat: train giant models in billion-dollar…
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