Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
Find five or six friendly-looking people in different parts of the audience and look them in the eye as you speak. Think of them as friends you haven’t seen in a year, whom you’re bringing up to date on your work. That eye contact is incredibly powerful, and it will do more than anything else to help your talk land.
Harvard Business Review • Frame Your Story
Illuminating answer (that matches what I am hearing from others) about why AIs don’t come with release notes: no one knows well what new models are capable of doing well or badly in advance.
It is why it is so important to test on your own use cases. Don’t just listen to others.
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Creator Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
the strange evolution of airlines into quasi-banks reflects how badly deregulation has gone. Regulation carefully set the terms under which airlines could do business. It was designed to ensure that they remained a stable business and a reliable mode of transportation. Deregulation, in turn, allowed the airlines to pursue profits in whatever way
... See moreGanesh Sitaraman • Airlines Are Just Banks Now
Instead of asking whether machines will ever become conscious, we might ask whether humans can become conscious enough to outgrow the “artificial intelligence” both inside them and in the machines around them.
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
You have to be good at reading, and read good things.