Knowledge as a service: a thought experiment
If you could capture not just what someone knows but how they reason, and run that on local hardware, what would the artifact actually look like?
AI
Style is not knowledge: and why the difference matters for AI
Capturing how someone writes is not the same thing as capturing what they know. Both are interesting capabilities. The conflation between them is going to cause problems.
GPT-4 first impressions: and a thought about who owns what they teach it
GPT-4 dropped a week ago. The capability jump is real. The ownership question it surfaces, about the corpus you use to teach it, is sharper than the marketing suggests.
The LLaMA leak and what \"your model on your machine\" could actually mean
Meta released LLaMA to researchers on February 24th. Three days later the weights were on 4chan. The rest of 2023 will be shaped by what happens next.
ChatGPT three months in: what changes when knowledge becomes a chat
Three months after launch, the most interesting thing about ChatGPT isn't the model, it's that millions of people changed how they ask questions overnight.