Eric Bye

Canadian settled in the UK. AI Consultant, helping businesses get value from AI.

[Eric Bye @erictronai]

@bswud Guess I just haven’t seen much county level expertise in bringing the right people in in any area that leaves me optimistic. But, limited exposure personally. (Love WIP, subscribed and huge fan)

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@Miles_Brundage I’ve seen the ‘never assume negative intent’ culture line at an org trigger the exact opposite. Unfortunately it was taken as ‘never assume someone doesn’t know what they are talking about’ so very few were every challenged

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@WillManidis Thoughts on what happens when more ‘ai native’ startups come for incumbents? At least in areas where the ability to run at that efficiency has a super meaningful impact

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@Miles_Brundage Don’t a lot of investment funds have pretty tight policies about ‘adult’ investments? They often won’t touch infra that makes revenue off of them even

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@tszzl It requires a lot of faith in institutions that are not doing very well. Trust that governments will handle this well is non existent, and none of them are doing much to help that. I’m more optimistic than most, but common theme around fear is not seeing any gov w viable path

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@emollick It’s surprising we haven’t seen more innovation on the product front for knowledge work. Cowork is great, but has huge gaps. The slack thing is neat but will be a token hungry monster and too flexible

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@s8mb @ATabarrok Wait.. is AC illegal here? Or is it a sort of social law. Legalising cheap electricity feels like a key part of this too

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@deanwball Is there a reasonable resolution, given expectations? (Honest question) Writing secure code that also doesn’t find vulns seems like an impossible line to walk

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@angelbrodin If you could add: make sure the superapp has controls businesses can implement (not just enterprise). Most IT teams do NOT want the average employee using codex, let alone Atlas. One year commitment to use safely when everyone else is moving faster product wise is too big a risk

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@nabeelqu Pangram checks can easily be managed with a few small changes. Maybe 15-30 seconds a page and I’m sure it would be easy to automate. At least with a good model already matching an existing style with some specific prompts

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@tszzl Shifting from science fiction, to science feasible, possible. People spent their whole lives imagining different futures, might as well build on some aspects of that work, even just as a catalyst for shorter term thinking

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@AmandaAskell @mitchandodger @Erikcason Every encounter with the nhs for over a year, AI has helped us catch major mistakes. Some life threatening. They have simple if this then that triage, unless they think you’re dying you’re punted. It’s also getting worse, fast. Much, much worse for women too

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@emollick Knowledge work benchmark bars are too low/easy, or the model router would think some tasks are worth effort. App companies know a majority don’t notice, and don’t want to lose out on margin. Been this was since 01

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@anecdotal My stepdaughter has never received a text book. When it’s time to study she doesn’t have even a digital version of everything they’ve learned, only online exercises and the notes she’s taken/teacher slides. 13 yo

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@Afinetheorem @Simon__Grimm Exactly, so what is the incentive to truly invest in permanent ai ownership of the space by the US. No trust that they will ever retain access to the frontier regardless of admin. Doesn’t help every consultancy is trying to tell every gov they can do frontier dev though

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@alexolegimas @deanwball Burning Ant just cause, or going for concessions ($$$, more politically friendly responses, nationalisation?)

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@AndrewCurran_ They aren’t pursuing medical studies at the moment though? No talk of fda approval, just plans for spas?