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No Plan Survives Contact with the Data: Why AI Blueprints Need a Commander's Intent

A few months ago, during a coffee chat, a very smart AI mentor at Google told me something: "The best way to think about these agents," she said,"is like a very smart intern. Give them enough context, define the workflow, and they will execute the code

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I Gave My AI Amnesia on Purpose

In 2010, Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub, wrote a short essay arguing that engineers should write the README before writing a single line of code. His reason was simple: A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. A few months ago, I was having an amazing brainstorming session with

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We Need Universal Teaching Machines as Much as We Do Universal Learning Machines

Since Alan Turing's fascination behind the question, "Can machines think?" (from his novel paper on Computing Machinery and Intelligence in 1950) to teaching machines long term and short-term attention (from "Attention is all you need" paper in 2017), the best brains and the biggest