Watched David Krakauer on StarTalk this weekend. His take: LLMs are capable, not intelligent. What I think they're missing is wisdom - intuition from experience.
So I had Claude interview me on whether an agent with memory could grow some. I landed on an adviser that argues with me but never makes the final call.
Would you want an AI that pushes back, or one that agrees?
Had a weird moment in Claude's Memory settings. I left my cursor in the text box, it started cycling lines, and the first one said "My dog's name is Beans."
Beans was in my lap at the time - panting.
It's almost certainly placeholder text (the next line gave me a baseball career I never had). Still, for a few seconds I was a believer.
Has an AI ever seemed to know something it shouldn't?
The more I read about AI, the more it seems like everyone lands in 1 of 4 camps:
Booster - it's the next industrial revolution, get on board or get left behind
Technologist - useful in certain domains, but the financing/business side is irresponsible
Skeptic - overhyped, a cheap imitation of what people actually produce
Abolitionist - built on stolen work and used by the wealthy to hold down wages
Which is closest to you? If none, reply with yours.
The last version of Hobby Hero had an LLM write every hockey game - box score, three stars and a story, 20 times a matchup. It read like the real thing and cost like it too, so I shut it down.
The rebuild is plain math: a goal model per team, fed recent form and the starting goalie. No LLM touches the result. I wanted to get a quick PoC out before opening night!
https://latentmirror.com/artifacts/hobby-hero/
What lever would you change?
With the NHL season about to start (and Hockey Night in Canada now behind Sportsnet's paywall), I started thinking back to Coach's Corner.
Ron MacLean spent decades as the steady voice beside Don Cherry. So, with Ron as my inspiration: how can an AI agent act as a guardrail against our worst tendencies?
(Fair warning: the bot in my margins has notes on Ron.)
https://latentmirror.com/posts/make-your-agent-your-ron-maclean/
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