Diary Posts
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Working with AI
Transparency label: AI-assisted. NotebookLM worked with Nishigaya’s post to outline the five levels. In a recent post on SubStack, Nori Nishigaya wrote: Being effective in your use of AI isn’t just figuring out the ideal prompt. There’s so much that goes into skillful use of AI. Done poorly, it can become a tool for chaos.
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Momentum is gathering
Transperency label: human only When Randolph Lalonde released the first “broadcast” of his Spinward Fringe space opera in 2008, AI was entirely in the realm of science fiction. Lalonde imagined AIs as autonomous agents capable of making complex decisions, sometimes with unintended consequences. He portrayed AIs both as companions (personal assistants worn on the wrist,
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Ride the wave
Transparency label:human only The message I am getting loud and clear is that there will be two groups of people: those who delay applying AI for whatever reasons, and those who put it to practical use and ride the wave of its evolution. The former will find themelves left behind, unable to catch up, and
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The pace is accelerating
Gas Town would have been science fiction 18 months ago. Like so much of that genre, it has become reality. Steve Yegge created a real system architecture that has demonstrated it is capable of directing, harnessing, and controlling the software development work of 30 agents. The human overseer has 30 terminal windows open to monitor
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Beyond Words: The Rise of Large World Models
Transparency label: AI-assisted We’ve spent the last few years watching Large Language Models get remarkably good at text. But something more fundamental is emerging: models that don’t just understand language, but reality itself. These are Large World Models, and they represent a different approach entirely. Where LLMs predict the next word in a sentence, LWMs
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An AI power-user’s perspective
Transparency label: AI-assisted In his YouTube channel, Dylan Davis shares his thoughts on how we can make good use of AI. This infographic (produced by NotebookLM using only Dylan’s video as its source) shows five ways power users do so. Importantly, the fifth habit he highlights is not letting AI do all the thinking for
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Methodology & tool-kits
Transparancy label:human-only Yesterday’s discussion crystallised some ideas that I have been teasing at recently. Namely that we could develop our labs as a place where we: (a) develop a methodology and its associated tool-kits for the implementation of AI in an enterprise; and (b) use these in a synthetic environment to help business people gain confidence
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Do AI models have a prompt appetite?
About once a week, I use ChatGPT to pull out the main themes from the stack of newsletters I receive. This week I was surprised to be told that different AI models now have different prompt appetites. So I got the AI to explain what this means and the implications for Anapoly. ChatGPT’s response to
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A three-layer instruction set for use in ChatGPT Projects
Transparency label: human only Building on recent work around the three-layer model of AI context, I spent some time today working with ChatGPT to write a full three-Layer Instruction set for use in Anapoly’s ChatGPT Projects. If it works as hoped, strong governance is now the default. The AI will challenge weak logic, ask for