Notes on data, AI, IT
and security
No marketing fog. The way I think about real problems with founders and managers.
DALL-E 2 and the new visual productivity
OpenAI unveiled DALL-E 2. A look at what changes for business - not for artists, but for companies that work with visual content every day.
GPT-3 in the API: what a founder should do with it
OpenAI opened GPT-3 access through its API. A clear-headed look at what changes for business and where to slow down.
The gap between experiment and production: why ML models never reach work
Most ML projects show good results in experiments and perform poorly in production. I look at why this happens.
When a good model goes bad: drift, detection, and business cost
A model that passed every test at launch can quietly degrade over months. Understanding why helps you decide how much monitoring is worth the investment.
GPT-3 one year on: what actually changed for business
A year after GPT-3's release is a good moment to separate real shifts from noise and understand where language models already work.
GitHub Copilot and the start of mass AI-assisted development
What the GitHub Copilot launch means for companies that hire developers and manage engineering teams.
Transformer moves beyond NLP: what it means
The transformer architecture that reshaped text processing is beginning to work with images and structured data. What this means for business.
MLOps: the gap between experiment and production
Why most ML experiments never reach production, and what to do about it at the organisational level.
CLIP and multimodality: the arrival of zero-shot behaviour
What OpenAI's CLIP release means for companies thinking about practical AI beyond text.
AlphaFold: the moment AI starts changing science, not just back-office
In November 2020, DeepMind announced AlphaFold 2 results at CASP. Why this matters more than most AI news - and what it changes about how we understand the technology.
Narrow AI in operations: what works, what stalls
Companies launch AI pilots, but most never reach production. What distinguishes working cases from stalled ones.
GPT-3: what a founder should actually think about it
In summer 2020, OpenAI released GPT-3 - the largest language model at the time. What it actually means for business right now.