How to Interview AI / ML Engineers and The Future of Crypto and AI

A few links for Friday and the weekend in the world of AI.

Jul 12, 2024

Morning y’all!

It’s Friday and I’m going to be taking it pretty simple and slow today! I hope you do as well and as we walk into this weekend it’s my wish that you find a real opportunity to slow down, reflect, and appreciate what’s going on around you…

… especially the really positive stuff!

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer

Amazon is updating its products with AI tech so it doesn’t lose the long-term race. Cloud services + AI seems to be the obvious combo but will customers really care?

The United States is winning the private sector war for AI, at least according to S&P Global and their reporting. But this isn’t a guaranteed winner since the race has only begun, in earnest, for a few serious years.

Here are some good thoughts on how to interview AI / ML engineers.

I’m all about indie filmmakers and this South Korean startup has just raised over $4m to help them out with new tools.

NVIDIA is on a tear and apparently their data centers will be sold at a pace of about $150 billion per year on an annualized basis by the final quarter of 2024, estimates David Cahn of Sequoia Capital. Wow. Wow!

RouteLLM is an open source project for evaluating LLM routers.

Leo is an AI phone assistant for non-technical folks.

Pieces Copilot helps you never lose context of your development workflow.

Oh, really?

AGI will decisively obsolete blockchains, but it's likely it'll be obsolete for all but 1 or 2 usecases well before then (few years) as non- blockchain P2P, ZK, trust infrastructure develops.
Where blockchains are limited to only objective strict consensus, AGI(s) can achieve complex, subjective consensus - "AGI will use blockchains" is a silly, nonsensical meme notunlike "telegraphs will use internet".
Valuable cryptoassets like BTC and ETH will live on after blockchains are obsolete because, as l've said a hundred times before, this is a socioeconomic movement, and tech is only means to an end. The tech will be replaced, the socioeconomics will live on.

Hmmm.

Free report on Crypto and AI. Includes comparisons to traditional companies, market sizing, and emerging projects and details key AI infrastructure components like training data, storage, and workloads. Not terrible.