Air Street Press Nathan Benaich (Air Street Capital)
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California’s AI bill was an avoidable disaster
What went wrong and how to prevent this from happening again.
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Who remembers capsule networks?
We recently stumbled across the first ever Hacker News thread discussing Attention Is All You Need, the landmark paper that describes the transformer architecture. The work had come out in the summer of 2017, but it took a while for the wider AI community to begin to grasp its significance and build on it.
Most commenters at the time expressed interest or admiration. Some didn’t understand it. Others thought that the paper would probably be out of date in a few months. And one person asked what it could do for capsule networks.
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Chips all the way down
If foundation model economics is alchemy, what does that mean for hardware?
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Dynamism and defense: six months on
Revisiting our work on European readiness.
It’s been close to six months since we published our report covering the challenges early-stage defense companies face in Europe. Since then, we’ve seen a rush of defense-related announcements from European governments, speculation about the future of US support for the Ukrainian war effort, and the Russian military continuing to step up its offensive.
Given the pace of developments, we’re re-examining our initial work and assessing what’s changed, what hasn’t, some points we didn’t evaluate last time, and where we go from here. -
Gorillas, hype cycles, and my MIT EmTech talk
Yesterday, I was the opening act at the MIT Tech Review EmTech Digital conference, where I spoke about how easy it is to miss step changes in AI progress among the day-to-day swirl.
This prompted a series of reflections, which I’ve laid out in this blog.