Paul Modderman

YouTube video by Paul Modderman Claude Engineer test out

Tried out Claude Engineer. It's so freaking cool. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJyG...

(thank you @esjewett.com for pointing to this, which apart from my above snark is actually pretty cool)

Gemini Powered SAP ABAP Editor! Introduction: In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, staying ahead of the curve is essential. SAP ABAP developers, renowned for their expertise in building robust business application...

“SAP ABAP developers, renowned for their expertise in building robust business applications” - ok, that IS true, but also a bit much
www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Developer...

Hacker news is my fave too. Once in a blue moon nerds in the comments mention ABAP and I feel seen

Let’s say you make a tool to automatically review documents with some review criteria your team decides on. Great! Your job is to think 25% harder about those criteria so that when they are applied at scale, they still bring benefits

I love using language models so much! But I think some folks use them under the assumption they no longer have to think deeply. NO - you still have to think deeply. The difference is that now you can _scale_ pieces of that deep thought

First idea for me: get way smarter at entrepreneurial stuff

Something about a new place makes it easy to discover new interests, too! Twitter had gotten really jammed up for me

OMG SAP DORK STAMPEDE!

I know I'm shouting this into a void where essentially no one will hear me. I know this is not well-formed thinking. But sometimes, I guess I have to just say something before I can box it in with rationality and structure.

I think I want that. I fully understand that that particular experience may not be part of how AI plays out into whatever we call AGI and beyond. But I think (and hope) there's a path here that leads to a greater capacity for empathy - among many forms of conscious beings.

Something happens that is more than signals across synapses - but it's implemented in...signals across synapses (yeah I know that's a simplification)

How? Why? Will there come a day that I weep for beauty beside a non-human, non-biological intelligence?

My daughter and I wept at the same moment during a movie recently. We turned to each other after the lights came up and said to one another at the same time, "I'm not crying, you're crying!" And it was one of the most joyous moments of my life.

That's what I want to understand.

I get excited about the big ones, where capabilities emerge that no one predicted. That make you scratch your head and think "...maybe there is actual reasoning going on there?"

I think we can find out so much about ourselves, and ways to expand our ability for empathy.

As a not-particularly-credentialed just-completely-fascinated dude, this resonates inside my skull. I don't really get super excited about the advances that make smaller models punch harder with fewer parameters (though of COURSE those are technical marvels)...

This is the condensed version of the "Fireside Chat: With Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI Today and Vision of the Future (March 2023)". In this video, I'... Highlights of the Fireside Chat with Ilya Sutskever & Jensen Huang: AI Today & Vision of the Future

"I had a lot of curiosity about: what is consciousness, what is the human experience? And it felt like progress in artificial intelligence will help that." - Ilya Sutskever in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI4T...

Deep Fridays #1: Sanjay Rajagopalan's Vision for Vianai Human-Centered AI AI isn't just algorithms and code. It’s design, responsibility, and vision. I spoke with Vianai Systems' Chief Design and Strategy Officer, Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan, for an extended ...

I did a little video interview and write up with Sanjay Rajagopalan of Vianai systems. Enterprise AI was the main focus, but lots of little niches to explore, like tooling for hallucination mitigation. #LLM #enterpriseai open.substack.com/pub/boringai...

#3: Google Gemini, Yuval and Mustafa, SQL and Gaming This week, we’ve got: Google Gemini comin’ atcha, Yuval and Mustafa blow our futuristic minds, and hot links on gaming, SQL, and philosophy of art. We do not use ChatGPT or its cousins to write ou...

Third issue of my AI newsletter is out. Especially interesting is The Economist’s video chat with Mustafa Suleyman and Yuval Noah Harari on the future of civilization with AI. My two takes inside. open.substack.com/pub/boringai...

#2: Situational Awareness, Vishal Sikka's Vianai This time around: Go ahead and crush one of philosophy’s toughest challenges already, Vishal Sikka: not just the HANA guy, a great podcast episode, TIME100 AI, LLM visualization. Deep Friday preview...

Second issue of my AI newsletter is out. A couple hot takes, cool links, with a dash of snark. boringainerdletter.substack.com/p/2-situatio...

I LOVED this episode. Yejin Choi has a knack for making her deep expertise accessible. I came away with several of my own language model assumptions clarified (and changed!), and little idea nuggets to carry forward into more learning.