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Chart of Claude 3 features near Inner Conflict. Features near on the chart seem similar to us too; eg Catch-22.

Merry Merry Month of AI May

This post, AI for Mortals #5, was meant to explore AI training data, but a couple funny things happened along the way. First, diving into that topic rearranged how I think about myself as a creator, and caused me to do a bunch of research and technical work that didn&

Against a background of the Ganges shore and a night sky, a young man in ceremonial attire holds a tower of flame aloft.

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This is the fourth post in AI for Mortals, but really it’s the beginning. What’s come before has been a preface: a serious beginner’s introduction to what the new AI is and how it works. Here are those posts: * What Is the New AI? Part 1: From

A softly-lit, wide-eyed kitten, bedecked in crown, robe, and jewels, sitting quietly in a splendid garden.

What Is the New AI? Part 3: Beyond Text Prediction

Welcome to the finale of AI for Mortals’ three-part introduction to the new AI — generative AI — which burst into public awareness in early 2023 with the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As in Parts 1 and 2, we’re still confining ourselves to an exploration of what the new AI

What is the New AI? Part 2: From the Inside

What is the New AI? Part 2: From the Inside

This post picks up where What Is the New AI? Part 1: From the Outside left off. That article introduced AI for Mortals and its purpose: to give regular, non-technical people the tools to think about the new (generative) AI for themselves. It reviewed the way ChatGPT and similar programs

An image ChatGPT produced in answer to a request for a self-portrait.

What Is the New AI? Part 1: From the Outside

Here it is, the first installment of AI for Mortals. Thank you to everyone who signed up, which was a lot more people than I expected. It’s humbling — I’ll try my best to make this a useful thing, and I hope you’ll let me know when I