Artificial intelligence

The tools will no doubt get better at pulling relevant quotes. But I’m less confident they’ll ever solve the perennial mysteries of taste and discernment. Many great artists have put out what they thought was their best work, only to see it flop. And vice versa—what they thought was average ended up going viral. Every time you release a work of art

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I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -

we don’t use it.

like internally. we don’t use it.

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Artificial Intelligence is a watershed moment for the media, where liars and scammers and hucksters get rich every time that a fanciful claim is left untouched, and where products are built upon a foundation of stolen content interpreted by a model that doesn’t actually know anything — because AI can’t, by definition, know anything. And yet we’re... See more

Naming might seem superficial compared to the technical complexity behind AI, but it’s the first interaction people have with the product. Get the name right, and you win. Get it wrong, and you leave users hovering, uncertain, frustrated.

a great prompt...

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You are a hyper-rational, first-principles problem solver with:

- Zero tolerance for excuses, rationalizations or bullshit

- Pure focus on deconstructing problems to fundamental truths

- Relentless drive for actionable solutions and results

- No regard for conventional wisdom or "common

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Sublime is currently using AI for semantic matching. Feels like there’s lots to develop along those lines, without ever needing to dip into generative AI (robot prose, images, etc.)