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Jim Albrecht

Jim Albrecht

The body is the brain; the brain is the body

Or why AGI is not coming anytime soon

May 1

The body is the brain; the brain is the body

May 1

Jim Albrecht

The hype-cycle peak, LLM edition

Benedict Evans recently wrote that he had not yet found a personal use case for ChatGPT-style experiences. He writes:

Mar 29

Mar 29

Jim Albrecht

Interview questions for Vladimir Putin

When someone really starts to irritate you with their criticisms of the corruption of your regime, how do you decide it is time actually to…

Feb 24

Feb 24

Jim Albrecht

How to Keep Generative AI from Destroying the News Business.

I wrote this op-ed for the Washington Post on how copyright needs to change in order to keep generative AI from devouring journalism like a…

Feb 6

How to Keep Generative AI from Destroying the News Business.

Feb 6

Jim Albrecht

The Pessimism of Techno-Optimism

MARC Andreessen recently delivered a “techo-optimist” manifesto via Twitter, which, like many of Andressen’s posts, attracted adulation…

Oct 27, 2023

photograph of Marc Andreessen, sitting thoughfully with fingers interlaced, a bit of theatre scrim visible in the background, as if he is on a stage, perhaps participating in a panel discussion, his bald head domed and prominent, wearing a gray suit jacket with no tie, and a large, silver-colored wristwatch

Oct 27, 2023

Jim Albrecht

Seeing through a Lake

(Originally published August 23, 2010, Anchorage Daily News)

Nov 17, 2021

Seeing through a Lake

Nov 17, 2021

Jim Albrecht

The Evolution of the Digital Mind

I wrote this piece 25 years ago, which means it’s pretty far out of date, but the concerns it raises about digital tech remain unchanged.

Nov 26, 2018

The Evolution of the Digital Mind

Nov 26, 2018

Jim Albrecht

A Sudden, Vast Unknowing

Way back in the late 90s, a colleague of mine, Jonathan Rosenberg, made an observation that stuck with me. “The biggest change the Internet…

Jun 17, 2017

A Sudden, Vast Unknowing

Jun 17, 2017

Jim Albrecht

Compression and Loss

I recently spent a week trying to compress data, which is a new thing for me. I had this little Arduino audio project I wanted to build…

Dec 15, 2016

Compression and Loss

Dec 15, 2016

Jim Albrecht

III: Putting Humpty Together Again

Part three of “Can Google and Facebook Save the Republic?”

Nov 17, 2016

III: Putting Humpty Together Again

Nov 17, 2016

Jim Albrecht

Jim Albrecht

Product manager, ex-Google; Alaskan by birth & by temperament; prone to the belief that everything means something

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