Making Sense of Automation and Artificial Intelligence

“Intelligence is whatever machines haven’t done yet”
— Larry Tesler

Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Model size and transistor count are imperfect but helpful indicators of progress

Language Model Parameters (billions)

CPU Transistors (billions)

Latest Musings

Musings
Look Who’s Talking: Speech as a Modality
Look Who’s Talking: Speech as a Modality

Adding speech as a modality to large language models is a bigger deal than most people realize.

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The Interns: AI in the Workplace
The Interns: AI in the Workplace

Why are large organizations struggling to adopt the latest AI technologies? Perhaps AI has a lower tolerance for uninspiring managers.

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