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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how some of the errors we see with written content are going away after the advent of generative AI. I argued that an error (especially in written text content like emails, social media posts etc.) feels different now, as AI is eliminating most or all of them today. I also wrote that some of these errors that we make in content define the humanness of it. A small deviation signals it is not artificial, that there was a human behind the scenes. ...

What does it actually mean to think and reason? I recently came across this definition of a “Reasoning AI model” while reading the book How to AI by Christopher Mims. It also made me reflect on how we humans actually “think.” According to the book, a reasoning model is a type of AI/large language model that talks to itself in order to “reason” through a problem. While a technical definition of how an AI model ’thinks’ is more complicated, it still made me think - Do we also solve our problems by talking to ourselves? What’s the ideal process of reasoning for humans? Is it just talking to ourselves? Is it asking “Why?” to get to the root of a problem and then finding a solution? ...

Recently I came across an email about a job posting that caught my attention. It was not the job in particular, but a specific sentence in the description. It read “Required Skills & Qualifications: 210 years of experience in …” While it sounded funny at first glance, it felt odd too, for the reason that it’s been some time since I have come across an error like this in an email. ...

Warren Buffett once said “Investing is simple but not easy”. If you have invested in the stock market at some point, chances are that you have experienced a bear market, which is essentially a period when your investments keep losing value. By definition, stock market investments come with a set of risks. One of the biggest risks is volatility i.e. the prices go up and down in an uncertain way based on external conditions. This is essentially how the stock market is designed to work based on the supply and demand. ...

This post is not about how and when AI (Artificial Intelligence) will take over and humans will be left with nothing to do in terms of work. I believe we are far away from that, and we are still not sure whether we will see that level of superintelligence in our lifetimes. What I want to focus on is this: given that we are working towards a world where AI could potentially do anything a human can (Artificial General Intelligence) and that intellectual tasks are slowly being outsourced to AI in phases; this is probably a good time to pause and think about how a world like that would look. ...

This is my first post here, and thank you for taking a look! Why a blog now? Writing is something that I have deferred for a long time and I wanted to see if this is a good time to get back to it. I’m new to this, although I have created blogs a couple of years ago, I haven’t got into serious writing, and this is probably a good start. ...