David Orban

AI 2027: Are We Ready for Superintelligence?

In the AI 2027 scenario forecast, published just a few of days ago, the authors Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean, discuss how the next two or three years could play out as AI becomes stronger and stronger, with AGI potentially around the corner and ASI right behind it. In […]

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The Two Pillars of Modern App Expectations: Data Portability and Semantic Search

Data Portability First Somewhat paradoxically, these days I almost immediately ask myself how I can get back the value I provided to a platform, rather than what benefits it can give me. Specifically, I want to know: For example, I use a CRM called Clay and was dismayed to discover that their data export doesn’t

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Is extraction economics coming to an end?

Stellar Futures & Post-Extraction Economics with James Arbib and Tony Seba – Searching For The Question Live 105 Exploring the transformative ideas from the book “Stellar: A World Beyond Limits And How To Get There” by James Arbib and Tony Seba, we examine how converging technologies are creating a fundamentally different economic system where production

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How to Export Your ChatGPT Data, and Those of Other AIs

Backing up your data is essential, whether from social media platforms, YouTube, or AI assistants like ChatGPT. Here you can find a simple way to export and download your interactions from ChatGPT and other AI platforms. 1. ChatGPT To begin, open your ChatGPT settings and navigate to the Data Control section. Inside, you will find

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AI Scaling Laws Prove Kurzweil Right Again

During his 2025 keynote at CES in Las Vegas, Jensen Huang, in his usual approachable style, delivered some important updates regarding what I call the Paradigm of Jolting Technologies as it applies to AI architectures. Historically, a given technology approach would deliver improvements only up to a point, after which further efforts would generate progressively

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From Horse Carriages to Rockets: Why Data Quality Drives the Speed of Innovation

I was invited to the 9th Quality Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to participate in a panel discussion about data quality, and its impact on entrepreneurship, with a particular view from an AI and startup perspective. In this conversation about the transformative power of high-quality data in AI innovation, I reflect on my journey from

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