Phil 2.14.2024

SBIRs

  • No meetings!
  • Going to spend most of the day working on the WE paper. My angle is that AI will begin to occupy the places that animals did in the past. AI of different capacity will be employed to solve different scales of problems. Like animals, the AI will mostly do what it’s told, but it will inevitably misbehave. We had entire careers where people managed animals as tools (Teamsters!), and we will need something like that going forward (AI Whisperers and Prompt Engineering!) . There will be people who have a knack for these things, and there will be others that don’t but need the best performance out of the system that they can get. The background section will first set up the analogy that compares modern AI to animals, and then discusses how humans have managed these systems in the past, with Mahouts being the most extreme example. Which will get us to the next section, since WEs were the most sophisticated LAWS of ancient times.
  • Really good source material on AI Whisperers from Forbes: Rise Of The AI Whisperers