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Thoughts on Zero Unemployment

AI Hallucinations

Practical Examples: an ongoing list of specific use-cases.

WSJ on AI generated populations and the kinds of simulations that can be done, e.g. clinical trials.

Henry Farrell explains why ChatGPT is an engine of cultural transmission, with numerous quotes and summaries from UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Alison Gopnik

Gopnik and her co-authors speculate that LLMs might similarly make the transmission of information more “efficient,” greatly enhancing discovery.

Misc Notes on AI

AI can be an aid to observability?: recognizing normal and abnormal activity and then interpreting and summarizing log data and making suggestions for resolving problems.

AI can be used to baseline data sets and detect anomalies. In this use case, AI algorithms can recognize normal activity across different timeframes — from months to weeks, even down to individual days — and flag when an abnormality crops up.

April 2

Robin is a company? example of using AI to scrape thousands of school websites and generate summaries of, say, how many schools have a policy for X.

Cognition Labs and Devin for software engineering

Ethan Mollick got it to work for hire on Reddit.

2024-03-11 Scott Alexander proposes a series of prompts that can participate in a prediction market.

AI in the Popular Press

2024-03-06

Overview Presentations

My thoughts about Sora GPT Applications - Images and Video

GPT Applications - Images and Video


AI in Healthcare: Personal Science Tips

2024-02-28

AI Tinkerers Events


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AWS has a Hugging Face Page that includes Amazon Sagemaker integrations with Mistral and more.