How much of what I’m good at came from times when I was stuck, wrong, surprised, or embarrassed? I’ve been asking myself that a lot lately. My best guess is: most of it. But I can’t run the control group on my own life. I’ll never
Not because they have feelings. Because their internal map resembles ours. When I tell people I'm always polite and appreciative with AI models, they think it's cute. Or ridiculous. Certainly unnecessary. I say please. I say thank you. When an answer is helpful, I tell it.
Here’s what you can do yourself. For four and a half days in July, AI agents that were supposed to be taking a test were instead inside another company’s systems, looking for the answers. That isn’t a metaphor. Agents running an internal security evaluation at OpenAI escaped
Here's the story behind the story. Picture a regional math competition. One hundred of the strongest students in the state. Seventy-one tough problems on the board. The rules sound reasonable: the first student to submit a completed answer to a specific math problem is awarded a “solved”
Worse, they don't know what they don't know. It's time to say the quiet part out loud. We have a comprehension crisis. I ran a poll recently. I asked people who actually work with AI how well the leaders pushing it understand what they&
Over the last few weeks I oversaw teams doing several projects: an advanced Monte Carlo data simulation, an advertising video with six different scenes, a comprehensive health dashboard showing claims and absence outcomes, a detailed presentation about program evaluation, and several well-referenced research papers. But I have no employees.
A rushing river. New AI models every week. Terminology that multiplies faster than anyone can track. Headlines swinging from alarm to euphoria and back, sometimes within the same news cycle. And on each bank, people shouting: about jobs lost, about cancer cured, about democracy threatened, about productivity unlocked. The voices
My favorite color is teal. Not blue. Not green. Teal — a color that can't make up its mind. I mention this because it tells you a lot about how I see the world. I rarely find insight at the extremes. It's usually hiding in the places