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Scaling, Optimization & Cost Reduction for LLM/RAG & Enterprise AI www.linkedin.com/pulse/scalin...

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Future Panic? Your AI doc will see you now, Apple’s secret weapon that starts with P, and the job market that froze because of too much hugging. www.linkedin.com/pulse/future...

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“.. The ECB found that around 26% of its survey respondents reported switching away from U.S. products.” “.. High-income households are more likely to switch away from U.S. goods ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/eur...

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Your Eyes, Their Data? Meta AI Glasses At Connect 2025 www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-e...

With the new Grok 4 Fast, the price/performance curve for AI shifted again. I updated my chart to reflect this change. I have to update it every couple weeks now. I also think the GPQA Diamond benchmark is likely maxed out (the tests themselves have errors, making it impossible to get to 100%),

I have been wondering if there is an underlying capability factor that all the many benchmarks for AI are measuring. It seems like the answer is yes. Overall correlation is moderate but not bad (median r ≈ 0.51) and there are distinct clusters (eg reasoning, code) with VERY high correlation.

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Papers: conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f227505.pdf conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f227491.pdf

Some new theoretical economics papers modelling the implications of AGI on the economy. These two papers argue that a true AGI-level AI (equivalent to a human genius), if achieved, would eventually displace most human labor and reduce the economic value of remaining human work to near-zero.

I think the AI job automation/augmentation dichotomy doesn’t help much. Automation can be a form of augmentation (have the AI write an analyst report so analysts can focus on higher value work) & augmentation can be automation (you may need less workers if productivity goes up)

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