Introduction ChatGPT took the world by storm after its public release in November 2022. Now, nine months later, the initial burst of excitement and shock has settled and clear signs of a slowing interest in AI are showing. With all the news headlines and marketers on social media overbidding each other…

Introduction Worldcoin has generated a lot of attention lately, raised a lot of capital, and a lot of eyebrows across various countries and communities. According to CoinFund’s investment thesis, Worldcoin could onboard more than 1 billion new users to crypto, including a new segment of users from developing countries with poor…

“In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century’s end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There’s every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this…

“The AI on the horizon looks like Amazon Web Services — cheap, reliable, industrial-grade digital smartness running behind everything, and almost invisible except when it blinks off. The common utility will serve you as much IQ as you want but no more than you need. You’ll simply plug into the…

Let’s take a look at one of the most talked about and well-funded AI companies of 2023, Inflection AI, and their core product Pi. I will also discuss some privacy concerns and some more general concerns with Pi’s market fit. Could AI companions become the next metaverse-like flop? Inflection AI — An Introduction Inflection AI…

I don’t know why. They “trust me” Dumb fucks. - 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg in correspondence with a Harvard friend after launching “The Facebook” (Business Insider) Introduction to Threads On Wednesday, Meta expanded its social media empire (which includes Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp) with the Instagram-based text app, Threads. Reportedly, Threads looks very…

Introduction Pessimistic Archive is a newsletter based around clippings from old newspapers where past generations express their concerns about the future and new technologies. In 1859, French poet Charles Baudelaire described photography as“the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies” and to…

Introduction UK-based lawyer Chris Mammen explains in a recent interview with Vice about AI-generated music, that the law moves slowly and evolves by analogy. “Something new comes up, and we figure out what it’s analogous to, and then that gradually becomes settled law”. The problem we are facing now with generative…

Over the last six months or so, we have witnessed large language model’s public and commercial breakthrough. Impressive and useful as AI models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 undeniably are, what we see is only the finely polished end result. …