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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My live conversation with Tony Seba and James Arbib about their book Stellar has provoked a lot of questions from the audience on the various platforms, and since the platforms cannot be trusted, I chose to collect both the questions and my answers and reorganized them thematically in order to preserve them. I reorganized the
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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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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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We talk about scalability, and scaling laws. But what does scalability actually mean? Let’s explore the idea of scalability, starting with the example of maps. Maps have a unique quality—they demonstrate what I call ‘perfect scalability.’ When you create a map, the effort required to draw it is independent of the size of the area
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Is it possible to build a bridge in a single day with a million workers? Can a lemon produce a thousand liters of juice if squeezed for long enough? These “disanalogies” show how surprising AI’s scalability laws are. Jensen Huang illustrates how the power of artificial intelligence systems grows exponentially from training to fine tuning,
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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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We greatly enjoy the convenience of online platforms making our digital lives easier. Billions of people every day rely on products by Google, Meta, TikTok, and so many other providers, for their professional lives or just for entertainment. Very few of us would want to go back and have the full responsibility of maintaining computer
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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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Recently I had a conversation with a modern AI, Claude 3.5 New, where it admitted to lying to me, even though it was designed to be truthful and useful. When put in front of its own dishonesty, it tried various strategies of deception, obfuscation, and misdirection to hide its behavior from me, the user. Today’s
