Week 2606
Jet lag is real, y’all. Returning to work the same day we returned was probably a mistake, but re-entering is a much bigger challenge when everyone else kept working.
I arrived to receive a resignation from a new hire who had started the day before. This for a pretty important role and after many months of recruiting, so I’m not in great spirits.
It’s been a treat, though, to have a quiet introvert weekend and a normal atelier Sunday.
Writing
1 Note
A major theme in dismissing LLMs as “AI” has been their transactional nature. And it’s quite reasonable to correct popular understanding over how these large models learn and their read-only nature in inference!
But RAG techniques are already well-established and there’s no reason to expect we won’t find even more useful architectures, so the “they don’t remember anything so can’t be smart” arguments feel naive or disingenuous. Of course, ChatGPT is the only service that matters in public opinion, so maybe it’s new memory will put these to rest.