Fred Vogelstein
Contributing Editor at WIRED Magazine
Biztech/biotech journo. @Wired, @Insider, @NYTMag, Author of "Dogfight: How Apple and Google went to war ....." , ex @FortuneMagazine, @USNews, @WSJ.
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3 weeks ago |
crazystupidtech.com | Fred Vogelstein
By Fred VogelsteinI joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023. Twitter/X had become an increasingly unpleasant place since Elon Musk bought it in 2022. And then I discovered what many did back then: There weren’t enough users. I stopped using it. This is the biggest problem for any new social network: It needs to reach a certain size for it to be useful. The trick is getting to that certain size.
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2 months ago |
crazystupidtech.com | Fred Vogelstein
By Fred Vogelstein and Om MalikThis is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025. 1994 was the year Netscape unveiled the first mainstream internet browser. 2007 was the year Apple unveiled the iPhone. And 2022, a hair over 2 years ago, was the year Open AI unveiled ChatGPT. There are many ways to frame the digital revolution of the past 30 years. But to us, focusing on these three eras makes the most sense. Why the history lesson?
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2 months ago |
crazystupidtech.com | Fred Vogelstein
By Fred VogelsteinFor the past two years - since ChatGPT ignited the modern AI revolution - I’ve wondered aloud to anyone who would listen about when AI was going to enable the large language model of me. Instead of crawling the public internet, it would create a queryable database exclusively based on the digital file cabinets of my personal and professional life. I want this because I’m in the idea generation business.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
crazystupidtech.com | Fred Vogelstein |Vijay Pande
By Fred VogelsteinWhen you talk to Jakob Uszkoreit you have to bring your “A“ game. It's not because he's evasive. It's because the stuff he's working on is cutting edge enough that you need every neuron firing to keep up with what he's talking about. Uszkoreit is one of the fathers of modern AI. In 2017 he was one of eight authors of Attention is All You Need, known to many as the Transformer paper.
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Nov 16, 2024 |
crazystupidtech.com | Fred Vogelstein
By Fred Vogelstein Many still believe AI optimization is an oxymoron. You can’t optimize something as complicated and inherently unpredictable as a neural network. Even if it could be done, what AI chatbot would grant outside companies database access like that? That’s how they’re competing - on the proprietary quality of their data and algorithms. And why bother? AI chatbot training databases change infrequently. Even if you succeeded, it might take months before you saw results.
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The prob is that it's legal in some states. But it's not federally legal. That makes studying it difficult. It also complicates standardization. And both complicate education. This straddle is worst of both worlds. The counterintutive solution is full legalization, like alcohol.
I think marijuana is the most insidious of drugs. It is legal in many states, is socially acceptable to many and is relatively easy for kids to hide, access and consume (vape, gummies etc). But the science is beginning to tell a very ugly story. We should have never legalized
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