Chain of Thought

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GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used

My slow and steady progression to living out the plot of the movie 'Her'

580 Jan 13, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

293 Mar 31, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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The End of Organizing

How GPT-3 will turn your notes into an *actual* second brain

248 Jan 6, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind

Never forget what you read again

212 Mar 17, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future?

I loaded journal entries from the past 10 years into GPT-3—and started asking it questions

194 Jan 20, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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Here’s What I Saw at an AI Hackathon

AI gossip, celebrity sightings, tech trends—and some great projects

159 Dec 20, 2022 by Dan Shipper

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I Built an AI Chatbot Based On My Favorite Podcast

Here’s how I built it and what I learned about the future

130 Dec 16, 2022 by Dan Shipper

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Linus Lee Is Living With AI

How a researcher uses generative AI to help him think better and get more done

116 Dec 3, 2022 by Dan Shipper

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Writing Essays With AI: A Guide

We should take AI seriously as a creative tool—here's how

114 Feb 17, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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Awe, Anxiety, and AI

Navigating the conflicting emotions of this moment in tech

102 Mar 24, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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Permission to Be Excited About AI

Skepticism, curiosity, and the Current Thing

99 Jan 27, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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A Few Things I Believe About AI

Taking time for a 10,000 foot perspective

94 Apr 21, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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AI Is Transforming Media Forever, Here’s How

Dispatches from the frontier of technology and the written word

93 May 5, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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This VC Is Slowly Automating His Job

How Yohei Nakajima uses GPT-3 to eliminate repetitive tasks

81 Feb 3, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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AI Doomsday For People Who Don’t (Yet) Wear Fedoras

Should we bomb the GPU clusters? A primer.

69 Apr 7, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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Does GPT-4 Know Me Better Than My Girlfriend?

A dangerous question with fascinating answers

69 May 12, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning

How to learn anything 98% better than average

57 May 19, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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AI and the Age of the Individual

When intelligence is cheap individuals win

51 Nov 11, 2022 by Dan Shipper

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Where Copilots Work

A simple checklist for builders

50 Mar 10, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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AI and the Future of Programming

An interview with Replit co-founder Amjad Masad

49 Apr 28, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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Artificial Unintelligence

Returning risky results is a dimension of performance for AI models

49 Dec 10, 2022 by Dan Shipper

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How to Build a Chatbot with GPT-3

A step-by-step guide

36 🔒 Feb 10, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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What I Learned Teaching 100 People To Code with AI

I guess I’m a programming teacher now

32 May 26, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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How to Make AI Write Like Your Favorite Author

A step-by-step guide from prompting to fine-tuning

29 Mar 3, 2023 by Dan Shipper

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Against Explanations

AI can make progress where science has struggled

27 Apr 14, 2023 by Dan Shipper