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Richard A few months ago, a meme circulated in AI circles claiming that the meaner you are to a model, the better its answers get. I never tested it. But it…
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โIt Just Predicts the Next Tokenโ Is Starting to Sound Ridiculous
For years, one of the easiest ways to dismiss AI has been: โIt just predicts the next token.โ Technically, that may describe part of the machinery. But it is becoming…
The Agent Wars May Have Started Before the Agent Market Did
After โchatโ came โagents.โ Instead of asking AI a question, you could hand it a task and let it work. It could search, schedule, browse, and operate software. Naturally, the…
Before AI Came For Copywriters, The Internet Came For Travel Agents
In the 1994 X-Files episode โDuane Barry,โ a man takes people hostage in a travel agency. Back then, the setting was a mundane backdrop for a sci-fi thriller. Watching it…
Did Balzac Flood France With Slop?
Honorรฉ de Balzac produced roughly ninety completed works totaling something like four million words in a little over two decades. Today, that kind of output looks suspicious. If an unknown…