I asked the NotebookML Deep Dive crew to discuss Jeffrey Dahmer. I just gave it the text of the wikipedia page on him. My wife listens to a lot of true crime podcasts, so I wanted to see what she thought of the Deep Dive crew. She said it was good!
Weird Chips - AI Generated
CEO Kurian: ‘When I Started, Most People Told Me We Didn’t Have a Chance’ - “We’re now the fourth largest enterprise software company.”
Survey Says: Tech Spending Is Up, But AI Rollouts Slower Than Expected - Initial AI hype is finally going back to reality. // " The AI wave is still building, but the future has been slower than anticipated. Today only 5.5% of identified AI use cases are in production, a sobering reality check on respondents' Q1'24 projection that 52% of identified use cases would be in production over the next 24 months."
Platforms Engineering - Not a fan: “Platform engineering isn’t gluing a bunch of off-the-shelf tools together. More templates, variables, and YAML isn’t going to make it easier for application developers to deploy faster, reduce cognitive load, and still innovate (a topic for another time). And the CFO isn’t going to fund multiple platform teams–at least not part of the same organization."
The Top 1 Percent Paid a Lot of Taxes in 2021 – Economist Writing Every Day - ”In 2021 the top 1 percent of taxpayers in the United States paid 36 percent of all federal taxes (they have 21.1 percent of income). This figure had been below 20 percent until the mid-1990s, and as recently as 2019 it was just 24.7 percent (they had 15.9 percent of the income that year).”
Why So Few Matt Levines? - There’s not enough news with the same types of events that happen over and over with clear, public records.
McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened - If you can come up with other ways staff can spend time, automation could be good for workers and customers. For example, come up with more complex products that require more human touch, speeding up delivery, or just busing tables. But, yeah, if you’re not going to change your business, then automation probably means firing people.
OpenAI Is Growing Fast and Burning Through Piles of Money - That’s what you call “real money”: “OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, up 1,700 percent since the beginning of 2023, and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales this year…. it expects to lose roughly $5 billion."