by Andrea Gurnari...
I hated philosophy at school. I had an elitist professor, always so full of himself to dismiss anyone who couldn't follow the way he spoke, and my own instinct was/is to reject any thesis imposed from above. A recipe for disaster. Those years left something that feels like a tattoo on my back (which coincidentally, I also have): painful to get, easy to forget, and then, once in a while, it…
Give yourself a break. AI is here now, whether we like it or not. It has a cultural impact that is driving people crazy. People love it, people hate it, some would build statues to Dario Amodei while others literally tried to burn Sam Altman’s house down. the cultural confusion is palpable. I believe this confusion also flows from the fact that AI is first and foremost a cultural innovation.…
[this article is best served with this soundtrack] - The Sims Soundtrack: Building Mode 1 A hot summer of year 2001 In the last year, agents have taken over. I don't know if this year's TIME person of the year has been awarded yet, but we have a winner already. Everything is now agentic. Every startup pitch that has some flavour of AI has to mention agents and variations of the word at least 5…