Issue #71 - What are AI models good for?

July 21, 2024
Generated with Stable Diffusion 3 and ComfyUI

In This Issue

  • Editorial
    • What are AI models good for?
  • What Caught My Attention This Week
    • With AI, every knowledge worker will write software. But will they want to?
    • The AI bubble might burst, says Sequoia, but some of its logic is faulty.
  • A Chart to Look Smart
    • The future of AI depends on synthetic data. Synthetic data might depend on a billion synthetic personas.
  • The Tools of the Trade
    • AP Workflow 10.0 for ComfyUI
    • AP Plot 1.0 for ComfyUI
  • How Do You Feel?
    • Tate Modern is pro-AI and it shows it with a new exhibition.

Editorial

Two years since the Cambrian explosion ignited by ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, we are still very confused about what AI models are good for.

On one side, we have people like Victor Taelin, who is keen to tell us we are using large language models wrong:

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