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Artificial Intelligence in Plain English

The AI Adoption Paradox: How Gatekeepers Resist the Better, Faster, Cheaper Future

The rapid rise of generative AI has sparked a lively debate about its potential to transform our economy. The core idea is simple…

8 min readJun 8, 2024

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The AI Adoption Paradox: How Gatekeepers Resist the Better, Faster, Cheaper Future

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Tabrez Syed

Working for the Algorithm: The Quiet Ascent of the Machine Boss

At 8:11 pm on August 29, 1997, Skynet became self-aware.

9 min readMay 24, 2024

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Working for the Algorithm: The Quiet Ascent of the Machine Boss

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Mad Model Disease: When AI Eats Its Own Words

In the late 1980s, a mysterious and devastating neurological disorder began to emerge in the cattle herds of Britain. Cows exhibited…

9 min readMay 20, 2024

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Mad Model Disease: When AI Eats Its Own Words

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Teaching to the Test: How Benchmark Gaming Could Influence AI Progress

In 2000, George W. Bush came into the Oval Office on the wings of education reform, his Texas standardized testing policies a beacon of…

9 min readMay 10, 2024

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Teaching to the Test: How Benchmark Gaming Could Influence AI Progress

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The Fine-Tuned Funhouse: Navigating the Carnival of Custom AI Models

In the race to develop AI models that can revolutionize healthcare, Google fired a powerful salvo in March 2023 with the unveiling of…

7 min readMay 8, 2024

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The Fine-Tuned Funhouse: Navigating the Carnival of Custom AI Models

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From Arthur’s Androids to AI Associates: How Professional Services Will Evolve

In the early 1900s, a young orphaned mailboy found himself captivated by the world of accounting while working at Allis-Chalmers in…

7 min readApr 29, 2024

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From Arthur’s Androids to AI Associates: How Professional Services Will Evolve

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The Transmogrifier of AI: The Transformer’s Power to Reshape Digital Data

Tracing the evolution of Transformers from their beginnings in natural language processing to their current applications across domains.

7 min readApr 22, 2024

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The Transmogrifier of AI: The Transformer’s Power to Reshape Digital Data

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From Golden Records to Large Language Models: The Quest to Compress Human Knowledge

The evolution of compression, from its theoretical foundations in the 1940s to the cutting-edge LLMs like GPT-3, which have seemingly…

7 min readApr 15, 2024

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From Golden Records to Large Language Models: The Quest to Compress Human Knowledge

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Making It Up in Volume: How the AI Infrastructure Boom Echoes the Telco Frenzy of the 90s

Global Crossing’s spectacular rise and fall encapsulated the hubris and hope that defined that era, and may serve as a cautionary tale as…

8 min readApr 9, 2024

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Making It Up in Volume: How the AI Infrastructure Boom Echoes the Telco Frenzy of the 90s

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From Pixels to Prompts: Nvidia’s Improbable Journey from Gaming GPUs to AI Supremacy

The crowd erupted into thunderous applause as Jensen Huang took the stage. It was Nvidia’s 2024 GTC event, but the energy in the SAP Center…

7 min readApr 2, 2024

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From Pixels to Prompts: Nvidia’s Improbable Journey from Gaming GPUs to AI Supremacy

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Tabrez Syed

Tabrez Syed

Co-founder boxcars.ai Previously: Co-Founder & CEO MightyCanary, Co-Founder & CPO Swivel, VP of Products, Spiceworks.

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