Scotland-based strategy and transformation consultant. Used to 🚀 new 🚘 at BMW. Interests: Networks, mobility, inclusion & the future. Views mine
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
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🚨 Our new paper: we know that GPT-4 generates better ideas than most people, but the ideas are kind of similar & variance matters
But it turns out that better prompting can generate pools of good ideas that are almost as diverse as from a group of humans papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.
The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.
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The progress of Midjourney AI image generation over the past ~20 months has been incredible:
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This slide on Generative AI from JPMorgan is unlike anything I've every seen from a major bank. Wow!
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Brexit has had a hugely negative impact on the UK car industry
A brief 🧵 below on other economic indicators that have trended downwards since the 2016 Brexit referendum.
Cc: @Noahpinion @erikbryn @BrankoMilan @Nouriel @paulg
economist.com/britain/2023/0…
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"The great problems we have – energy, climate change, defence, inequality, our dependence on production from China – will all be solved by massive investment. Companies that are geared to this renaissance of capital spending will do well." themarket.ch/interview/russe…
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This JMP is 🤯
Firms are getting *more* specialized and that is causing concentration to rise.
This is a very different story from the popular narrative about conglomerates taking over the world
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Curious: have you found ChatGPT useful in doing professional work?
If so, what kinds of prompts and answers have been helpful? Detailed examples greatly appreciated! Broader answer also appreciated
Not in theory, but where you've really *done it*, in your work
Thanks!
Whitney Zimmerman retweeted
This is a critical point. New AI releases tend to look impressive based on examples that go viral on Twitter. But that's not the full picture. For many applications, even a 10% failure rate is too high.
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There's no question that these models are quickly getting better. But their ability to sound convincing is getting better just as quickly, which means that it's actually getting harder for even experts to spot when they do make mistakes.
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People are excited about using ChatGPT for learning. It's often very good. But the danger is that you can't tell when it's wrong unless you already know the answer. I tried some basic information security questions. In most cases the answers sounded plausible but were in fact BS.
ALT Q: Why are encryption algorithms kept secret? A: Encryption algorithms are often kept secret to protect them from being compromised by attackers. If the details of an encryption algorithm were widely known, it would be easier for someone to find a way to break the encryption and gain access to the protected information. Keeping the details of an encryption algorithm secret makes it more difficult for attackers to break the encryption and access the protected information. It also allows the creators of the encryption algorithm to constantly update and improve the algorithm to make it more secure.
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John Collison (@collision) on the effectiveness of using small teams for new launches
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I used to believe that you could only build a successful company in person.
The first 6 months of remote were so hard that I thought our company might fail.
Now we're 100% remote & I can't imagine ever going back.
The big unlock? A new operating rhythm.
Let's break it down.
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I think it's under-appreciated how revolutionary and important this @MarshallBBurke, Solomon Hsiang, @tedmiguel paper really is.
Conventional economic wisdom says that rich countries will be largely ok even if the climate heats up past 2°C.
But this paper...
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Back in May, I examined Ukraine’s military strategy in a thread that I informally called ‘The Ukrainians are Masters of 21st Century War”. Today, an update on the Ukrainian approach - the "strategy of corrosion". 1/25 🧵
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This woman in Texas had started to miscarry, but her doctors couldn’t perform an immediate abortion because the fetus still had a heartbeat. She lost liters of blood and had to be put on a breathing machine as a result: AP.
