Month: October 2023

  • In many ways ChatGPT was less of a technical breakthrough than a user interface breakthrough. By organising and configuring the capabilities of the model in a novel way – chat – the implications of the underlying technology became more accessible and open to analysis and understanding. This seems to suggest…

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  • These are some notes for a panel discussion this afternoon – they are sketches, much more work needed on this and I need to also figure out if this is quite right, and don’t feel it is, not yet. Notes on macroeconomics and AI The mental models we have when…

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  • Can space save the economy from secular stagnation? That is the hypothesis explored in this paper by Matthew Weinzierl. The way you react to papers like this is interesting – there are, I find, two typical reactions. The first is an enthusiastic “Yes!” and the other is a deep sigh, followed…

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