Posts

Paginated listing of my posts

• Stepfunction Episode 8

  Published: Mar 28, 2023 |  at  11:58 PM

  Gordon Moore passed away which leads to a discussion about Moore's Law and the present and future of AI chips.

• Stepfunction Episode 7

  Published: Mar 25, 2023 |  at  10:21 PM

  Podcast episode where we discuss recent articles about generative AI by Rodney Brooks, Bill Gates, and Thomas Friedman.

• Stepfunction Episode 6

  Published: Mar 17, 2023 |  at  09:18 PM

  New episode about launch of OpenAI's GPT-4, addition of genAI to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace office suite, and the power of efficient open-source LLMs.

• Stepfunction Episode 5

  Published: Mar 12, 2023 |  at  11:13 PM

  Image generationg and generative AI continue to get attention by general publications like The New Yorker.

• Stepfunction Episode 4

  Published: Mar 4, 2023 |  at  10:56 PM

  New Stepfunction episode exploring image generation as opposed to the usual text generation from LLMs.

• Stepfunction Episode 3

  Published: Feb 28, 2023 |  at  04:26 AM

  Jeff tries out an analogy for top-down symbolic AI vs. bottom-up machine learning.

• Stepfunction Episode 2

  Published: Feb 23, 2023 |  at  07:47 PM

  We talk about the behind-the-scenes at OpenAI that led to ChatGPT's surprise viral success.

• Stepfunction Episode 1

  Published: Feb 15, 2023 |  at  06:02 PM

  Seymour and Jeff launch the first episode of Stepfunction - A Podcast About Generative AI.

• Turing Award Recognizes Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun

  Published: Apr 4, 2019 |  at  02:47 PM

  A brief history of neural networks from 1986-2014.

• GANs Part 3–CaptionDraw

  Published: Jul 10, 2018 |  at  01:42 AM

  Product idea involving generative adversarial networks.

• GANs Part 2–Counterfeit Money

  Published: Jun 20, 2018 |  at  03:51 AM

  More on generative adversarial networks with an example.

• Generative Adversarial Networks

  Published: Jun 15, 2018 |  at  06:43 AM

  Intro to GANs and why this architecture has been so interesting.

• Learned Index Structures–Why ML is a Foundational Technology

  Published: Dec 18, 2017 |  at  02:29 AM

  Really exciting paper on how AI is a stacking technology that improves other technologies--in this case improving efficiency of data structures.

• The Moore's Law of AI

  Published: Nov 8, 2017 |  at  07:38 PM

  Exponential growth in microprocessors, the web, and....AI?

• Histories of Deep Learning

  Published: Oct 23, 2017 |  at  11:12 PM

  Multiple retrospectives on how people invented deep learning over the last half-century.