john pasmore

AI is Everything | | | cs @ Columbia U +++ |

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

Great to catch up with the team @MacmillanLearn for their 'Reimagining Science Education' event in San Francisco - lots of great speakers (got to say hi to Peter Norvig at @Recursive_SI) thx Susan Elbe

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@NYCOutwardBound Tickets & more info: https://t.co/9oPUDLPt8Z

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

Wow...humbled for the recognition from NYC Outward Bound @NYCOutwardBound - seems like a really good time to think through our relationship with nature.

At @NYCOutwardBound, we believe in the potential of every student — what they can do, who they can become and the impact they can have. ALSO honoring the Speaker of the @NYCCouncil @JulieMenin

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@MerrynSW your statement, "It simply “rolls the dice” on what the next word in a series should be, giving you its best guess" in your @Bloomberg article, is an oversimplification on the edge of misinformation.

[bruhhhhh @bruhlencia9a]

@SenSanders

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@Gaurab Effectively closed, might be more accurate (~94%)...not a good scenario in any case

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

Was just asking a YC robotics founder about his journey - interesting article from Collin Wallace - VC at Lobby Capital:

Everyone Wants to Be a YC Founder. That's Exactly the Problem.

https://t.co/Nmy8WP7bNm

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@mikekalilmfg Thank you for sharing. What was it in the YC deck or in the presentations that generally differentiated your business from so many others?

[Lindsay Lin @LindsayxLin]

the state of legal ai on march 1, 2026:

what it’s good for:
- tireless Issue spotting
- finding contradictions
- fixing typos
- reformatting
- high level legal theory
- structuring the skeleton of addressable issues
- draft 1 for review by lawyers

what’s it’s not good for:
- fine tuned business judgment (more trouble than it’s worth to type in such granular context. please, bci now)
- relationship dynamic sensitivity
- market understanding of cutting edge legal trends
- getting from 85% to 100% perfect
- situations when every word and every comma matters because you need the language to balance ambiguity

using a legal ai in lieu of an actual lawyer is like shipping a 10 minute vibe coded app to the app store. if you actually have a multimillion dollar deal, this is not where you want to skimp. if you want to send your landlord a complaint letter for withholding a $2k deposit, then makes more sense.

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

Yep - another Summit - great to connect with EdTech pros

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@TeksEdge @vitrupo If all this effort is to improve ad engagement, then it's all for naught

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@BoWang87 A person reading books forgets much (most?) of what they read, and a computer forgets nothing. It's not such a great observation/comparison.

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They’re About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects https://t.co/qVR6A2A77p #smart #feedly

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@mattturck @bitcoin_entropy worth a look - QCML - using quantum cognition machine learning in real world applications: https://t.co/qcOur365mH

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@fjzeit @callebtc facts are irrelevant

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@ProtagorasTO @GaryMarcus @FT Def still makes mistakes. Blatent factual error where the right answer is actually right in the query:

[Zoë Hitzig @zhitzig]

I resigned from OpenAI on Monday. The same day, they started testing ads in ChatGPT.

OpenAI has the most detailed record of private human thought ever assembled. Can we trust them to resist the tidal forces pushing them to abuse it?

I wrote about better options for @nytopinion

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

meanwhile in math:

[LinaHua @Linahuaa]

Literally the greatest living mathematician- Terence Tao - also won the Fields medal and completely OWNED the IMO.
Many other Fields medalists aced the IMO.

French people make it their whole career to win Fields medals on lousy pay, while IMO winners get paid $100m by Meta to replace Le Cun in A.I.

[john pasmore @johnpasmore]

@Kellblog @Alfred_Lin Would you think that switching costs would generally be decreasing? Seems with AI, any enterprise can plan, build, model, and find a path to lower switching costs (and risk) for all but the most complex pieces of the business.