Originally published in East Wind, Oct 25, 2023. I’m probably not the first person to write about the insane leverage that LLMs confer to engineers, but Stack Overflow’s 28% layoff really got me thinking about the future of human-generated data, especially in the context of a potential model collapse (whereby “models forget the true underlying data distribution” once they are
Originally published in The Verge, Oct 18, 2023. No prominent developer of AI foundation models — a list including companies like OpenAI and Meta — is releasing sufficient information about their potential impact on society, determines a new...
Originally published in a16z.com, Oct 12, 2023. What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products? To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across...
Originally published in The GitHub Blog, Sept 6, 2023. It took us three years to develop GitHub Copilot before we officially launched it to the general public. To go from idea to production, we followed three stages—find...
Originally published in The Verge, Sept 25, 2023. What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language? That’s the premise behind Spotify’s new AI-powered voice translation feature, which reproduces podcasts in other languages using...
Originally published in The Verge, Sept 20, 2023. Today let’s talk about an advance in Bard, Google’s answer to ChatGPT, and how it addresses one of the most pressing problems with today’s chatbots: their tendency to make...
Originally published in Leigh Marie’s Newsletter, Sept 21, 2023. Or, I’m getting tired of market maps and am ready for some hotter takes. It’s been well over a year since I published my overview of large language models,...
Originally published in The Verge, Sept 20, 2023. Microsoft-owned GitHub is rolling out its AI-powered coding chatbot to more people. The company launched its Copilot Chat tool in public beta for business users in July, and on Wednesday,...
Originally published in together.ai, Sept 11, 2023. Large Language Models (LLMs) have changed the world. However, generating text with them can be slow and expensive. While methods like speculative decoding have been proposed to accelerate the generation...
Originally published in Pete Warden’s Blog, Nov 11, 2022. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal...
