Why are some people in the tech scene in a daze the last few weeks? I'll tell you. I've been spending an ungodly amount of time with the new AI tools that are only a few weeks old, testing out the creation of teaching materials for my kids and my students.
This stuff is better than anything I could ever come up with. Scarily so. And these are all very recent leaps in capability (<2 months). The tools have gotten so much better at working on jobs for hours and days and weeks. They are tenacious, smart and get complicated jobs done flawlessly.
What does education even mean anymore... when you have models that can recall everything humanity has ever learned with near perfect precision? Many of our education systems are elaborate schemes to screen people by ability and work ethic for scarce jobs or posts. But what does any of that mean now? It all seems pointless, and the jobs might not even exist soon. I have no idea what my kids are going to do.
Are we going to let our minds atrophy and leave the heavy lifting to the machines? We still have the edge on creativity and new knowledge creation, but how long will that last?
Just on a lark, I was able to create, in about 2 weeks, and a hundred million tokens, an entire medical school curriculum. 450 lectures and notes, 16000 figures. Multiple rounds of error checking show that the work is 99% flawless. Going to release and open source it soon. Normally this takes years of work from hundreds of humans. Instead an agent swarm from Claude Code was able to do it in days.
It is both exhilarating and demoralizing to see this happen. No knowledge work is safe. The economy will feel this soon. But unlimited knowledge is freely available to everyone.
This is something for which there is no precedent in our history.
Some examples of the output I've been able to get:
First, the fact that a small portion of fully vaccinated people can still get infected is not news. That a tiny portion of fully vaccinated people *die* of Covid is not news.
Vaccines greatly reduce your risk of infection, transmission, illness & death. They do not eliminate it.
@ndtv Vaccines reduce the chance of sever disease and death by almost 90% not 100%. So, if there is 1% chance of death without vaccine , it ll be 0.1% after both doses of vaccines. It is not 0%. For a huge number, 0.1% will also be a significant number.
@abhijitmajumder @NavroopSingh_ South African strain! Forget Chinese one. Even Pfizer one is far less effective . AstraZeneca fails as well https://t.co/S0Cjpv7wRK
If you are one of those who wants to help during the Covid crisis in India, but dont know how, its super easy:
Persuade someone you know to get the vaccine. Convince the skeptics and get them jabbed.
And then the next. Keep at it.
#StayRelentless
@paulg Folks in India reading this, there are too many stories on IG for donors & patients in need. This info is lost quickly
I made @airtable forms to make the data searchable & sharable
Donors (use this form): https://t.co/AhbioQ6KhN
Patients (use this form): https://t.co/V9j0sIb2wr
1/ The first 18 months of a startup:
After starting my 2nd company in 2019, I decided I would write down useful lessons I learned or re-learned along the way. Some were hard-earned & others required steady focus. A thread that I hope may help other founders starting out 👇
@kushManmarziyAn @greatparmesan @harshmadhusudan We are talking about GDP growth in terms of USD. So, growth first need to be converted in nominal terms and then adjusted in USD. High inflation ll lead to exchange rate factor becoming negative. Hence, it is NOT like higher the inflation better it is.
@greatparmesan @harshmadhusudan Real growth 7%+ inflation 5% + exchange rate change 2% = Net GDP growth 14% in USD terms. A lot of things have to go right!