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Why it might be helpful to think of AI as a trance, for better and worse

A Diginomica essay arguing that AI can be usefully understood through Stephen Gilligan's distinction between generative trance and degenerative trance. The piece traces three generations of AI deployment through that lens, draws a cautionary parallel to the rise and fall of NLP as a popular movement, and ends with a Tesla quote that captures something the field hasn't reckoned with yet.

Read at Diginomica: https://diginomica.com/why-it-might-be-helpful-think-ai-trance-better-and-worse

How rising storage costs are forcing a re-think of enterprise AI data strategies

Storage costs are hiking for the first time in years, fueled by AI aspirations. Komrpise COO and Co-founder Krishna Subramanian explains how rethinking data tiering strategies can help keep costs under control – not to mention increasing AI accuracy.

How AIX might be ushering in a new AI control paradigm, with interesting agentic safety implications

Unpacking how recent progress in scaling active inference is already demonstrating real improvements for distributed control systems in energy management, quantum computing, and autonomous fleet management. Early days, but it could impact the future of more capable, safer autonomous and agentic systems. https://diginomica.com/how-aix-might-be-ushering-new-ai-control-paradigm-interesting-agentic-safety-inplications

Powering up! How a shared foundation model is improving electrical grid management

Keen AI founder and CEO Amjad Karim explains how they are building a foundation model to improve electrical grid management. This has implications for reducing the costs of safely running the power grid and lessons for managing other kinds of infrastructure.

What Is Generative AI?

The TechTarget definitional reference piece on generative AI, written for SearchEnterpriseAI. Became the #1 Google result for "what is generative AI" during the technology's breakout year, and has remained one of the most-read explainers in the field. Read at TechTarget: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/

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How rising storage costs are forcing a re-think of enterprise AI data strategies

How AIX might be ushering in a new AI control paradigm, with interesting agentic safety implications

Powering up! How a shared foundation model is improving electrical grid management

What Is Generative AI?