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This is my home on the internet. I co-host Stepfunction–a podcast about generative AI, share fun photos about organic chemistry at Daily Molecule, and write about art, AI, tech history and other topics.

Featured Articles

• InstructGPT and How LLMs are Trained

  Posted on:April 15, 2023 |  at 06:53 PM

  Notes on Ari Seff's January 2023 video on InstructGPT, prompt engineering, and RAG.

• Turing Award Recognizes Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

  Posted on:April 4, 2019 |  at 02:47 PM

  An brief history of neural networks from 1986-2014.

• Uffizi Day 3–A New Theory for the Tooth Puller

  Posted on:April 7, 2015 |  at 10:22 AM

  More thoughts on Caravaggio.

Recent Posts

• Stepfunction Episode 18

  Posted on:December 5, 2023 |  at 12:55 PM

  Jeff and Seymour review the dramatic changes at OpenAI

• Stepfunction Episode 17

  Posted on:November 6, 2023 |  at 01:29 PM

  Jeff and Seymour talk about AI in movies and the new Humane AI Pin

• Stepfunction Episode 16

  Posted on:October 23, 2023 |  at 05:37 PM

  Jeff and Seymour talk about recent updates from OpenAI, rank image generators, and Jeff's AI workshop.

• Stepfunction Episode 15

  Posted on:October 10, 2023 |  at 11:16 AM

  We discuss Seymour's impressions from the September AI Conference in San Francisco.