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7 pages$10 Million for an Airline's Entire Memory
An airline went under. Somebody took the planes, the slots and the hangars, which is normal. What is not normal is who bid on its memory: Google. Large models have nearly eaten the public internet. The next mine is the inbox of a dead company. The …
An airline went under. Somebody took the planes, the slots and the hangars, which is normal. What is not normal is who bid on its memory: Google. Large models have nearly eaten the public internet. The next mine is the inbox of a dead company. The …
Nobody Gave a Number: Big AI Testifies Under Oath in New York
Four AI companies raised their right hands and were asked the same question: in the worst case, how likely is catastrophe? Not one of them gave a number. An industry that cannot give a number cannot grade itself. The four tools the New York City …
Four AI companies raised their right hands and were asked the same question: in the worst case, how likely is catastrophe? Not one of them gave a number. An industry that cannot give a number cannot grade itself. The four tools the New York City …
The World in Ten Years: What Gets Cheap, What Gets Expensive
A price list for 2036 AI-generated content: 99%. 1. First, a Word on Prediction In 1960, Herbert Simon wrote a sentence in The New Science of Management Decision that would be quoted for decades: within twenty years, machines would be capable of …
A price list for 2036 AI-generated content: 99%. 1. First, a Word on Prediction In 1960, Herbert Simon wrote a sentence in The New Science of Management Decision that would be quoted for decades: within twenty years, machines would be capable of …
AI Is Bringing Down the Scaffolding of Trust
The most dangerous change in the AI era is not that machines can write articles, draw images, or generate video. The real danger is that content itself is losing its standing as evidence. For a long time, people assumed that media artifacts carried …
The most dangerous change in the AI era is not that machines can write articles, draw images, or generate video. The real danger is that content itself is losing its standing as evidence. For a long time, people assumed that media artifacts carried …
When AI Gets the Power to Gridlock a City
On the night of March 31, a large number of Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan failed at the same time. The real concern is not merely that autonomous driving failed, but that a centrally controlled, cloud-based architecture may amplify a single-vehicle …
On the night of March 31, a large number of Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan failed at the same time. The real concern is not merely that autonomous driving failed, but that a centrally controlled, cloud-based architecture may amplify a single-vehicle …
A New Year—and What AI Will Change
Original WeChat post For this generation of knowledge workers, the greatest danger is not that they “don’t know how to use AI.” It is that they still think they have a 20-year adjustment window. They don’t. We may be the first generation of …
Original WeChat post For this generation of knowledge workers, the greatest danger is not that they “don’t know how to use AI.” It is that they still think they have a 20-year adjustment window. They don’t. We may be the first generation of …
Dongchedi Just Exposed “Smart Driving.” Where’s Our Dongku-Di?
I rented a car today, drove from Shanghai back to Ningbo. Yesterday I watched Dongchedi’s autonomous-driving showdown—closed highway + real city roads + 30+ “smart driving” models. Everyone faceplanted except Tesla. The episode aired and every Tesla …
I rented a car today, drove from Shanghai back to Ningbo. Yesterday I watched Dongchedi’s autonomous-driving showdown—closed highway + real city roads + 30+ “smart driving” models. Everyone faceplanted except Tesla. The episode aired and every Tesla …