Sitemap - 2023 - Exponential View by Azeem Azhar

๐Ÿ”ฎ The horizon for 2024: AI & energy #1

๐Ÿš€ My outlook for 2024

๐Ÿ“š 5 key AI reads to prepare for 2024

๐ŸŽ„ The AI inference race; a theory of ageing; replacing transformers; Mastodon migration, animal memory, rsrsrs ++ #454

๐Ÿ™ Promptpack: Your ultimate end-of-year AI guide

๐Ÿ”ฎ The AI data ceiling; interoperability; creative parrots; wandering around Mars ++ #453

๐Ÿ”ฎ AI climate impact & imminent risks

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Industrial policy [Part 2]

๐Ÿ”ฎ Gemini; silver spooners; greedflation; anthrobots, raves & whales++ #452

๐Ÿ”ฎ Bringing autonomous cars to the roads, with Alex Kendall, co-founder & CEO of Wayve

๐Ÿคฏ Inside Wayveโ€™s self-driving car as it tackles awful traffic

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Industrial policy [Part 1]

๐Ÿ”ฎ Repetitive forecasts; banned AI; new materials; wireless charging, octopus embodied ++ #451

๐Ÿ™ AI is in business โ€” I caught up with Andrew Ng

๐ŸŽ‚ Happy birthday, ChatGPT!

๐Ÿ”ฎ Q*; elite overproduction; battery breakthrough; bacterial memories ++ #450

๐Ÿ”ฅ Dissecting the OpenAI schism with Karen Hao

๐Ÿ”ฅ Sam Altman and the Board of Secrets

๐Ÿ”ฅ Eight thoughts on the complex fallout from the OpenAI crisis

๐Ÿ”ฎOpenAI in crisis; adaptation gap; DataZilla; elections; fast internet ++ #449

๐Ÿ”ฅ OpenAIโ€™s identity crisis and the battle for AIโ€™s future

๐Ÿ”ฅ Who is Sam Altman?

โœจ If I had to pick one AI tool... this would be it.

๐Ÿ™ Promptpack: Creating synthetic business personas using GPTs

๐Ÿ”ฎ GPTs for all, AzeemBot; conspiracy theorist AI; big tech vs. academia; reviving organs ++448

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The VC landscape in 2023

๐Ÿ”ฎ The AI executive order; Krispy Kremeโ€™s sugary crash; disruptive transition; Amazonโ€™s boo-boo ++ #447

โญ๏ธ When astronomers become astrologers

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The rise of defence tech

๐Ÿ”ฎ ย Parallel bets; peak CO2; AI & red-teaming; seeing pi++ #446

๐Ÿ’ก Building an AI we can trust, with Anthropicโ€™s Dario Amodei

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: An update on genAI and work

๐Ÿš€ We are growing the team

ย ย ๐Ÿง  AIโ€™s first flight

๐Ÿ”ฎ ย Postmodern biology; meowing AI; Robotic reliance; insurance inflation ++ #445

๐Ÿง AI and epistemic integrity

๐Ÿ’ก A golden age of democracy

โ›“๏ธ Chained mind โ€” Web3 meets AI

๐Ÿ”ฎ LLM search & energy; Turing transformation; AI blockade on China; Funflation & Twitter demise ++ #444

๐ŸŒŽ Going big on climate tech, with Vinod Khosla

๐Ÿชข Inside the loop

๐Ÿ”ฎAIโ€™s world models, Europeโ€™s risky four, BYD vs Tesla, murderous students & vegetarianism++ #443

๐Ÿ„ The cow and the academics

โœจ The promise of open-source generative AI

๐Ÿ”ฎ Exponential retrospective โ€” September in 6 charts

๐Ÿ”ฎ Infrastructural power; sensory upgrade; modern warfare; IEAโ€™s ambition; Wikiracing ++ #442

๐Ÿง  The brain โ€” the last fortress of humanity

๐Ÿ™ Promptpack: AI-enhanced prompting

๐Ÿ”ฎCyborg workers; multimodal AI; open innovation; post quantum ++ #441

๐ŸŒ Are we really in a second Cold War?

๐Ÿ“ˆChartpack: An update on the declining cost of solar

๐Ÿ”ฎ Tesla revolution; lithium mines; AI eye; rave therapy, UFOs ++ #440

๐Ÿ”ฎ Does AI already outperform humans on creative tasks?

๐Ÿ“บ I caught up with Sam Altman...

๐Ÿ”ฎ Time-space compression; Falcon soars; rebel microchips; skincare for mummies ++ #439

๐Ÿ™ Promptpack: Using Code Interpreter to crack your marketing funnel

๐Ÿ”ฎ LIVE now: Exponentially hits the screens

๐Ÿ‘€ My new TV show, Exponentially

๐Ÿ’กThe complexity of AI governance

๐Ÿ”ฎ Chinaโ€™s car charge; the solar cycle; dominant Google; neutrinos and extinct humans ++ #438

๐Ÿ”ฎ Exponential retrospective โ€” August 2023 in 6 charts

๐Ÿ’จ Climate capitalism: How market forces and policies align

๐Ÿ”ฎ Nvidia sky high; conscious AI; Chinaโ€™s fall; brain-reading, modern allergies & geckos ++ #437

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The NVIDIA advantage

๐Ÿ”ฎ Asia pivots; controlling AI; humans vs bots, Bored Apes & aliens ++ #436

๐Ÿ”ฎ Generative AI & economic growth

๐Ÿ”ฎ Partisan machines; fusion feats; decoding AI; heavy cars++ #435

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The potential of superconductors

๐Ÿ”ฎ Emancipated robots; DIY superconductors; Sinoamerican disputes; neotinder ++ #434

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The global heatwave

๐Ÿ”ฎ Superduperconductivity; Stack underflow; AI benchmarks; Gravity holes ++ #433

๐Ÿ™ Promptpack: How to build a second brain (featuring AI)

๐Ÿ”ฎ Llamaโ€™s second coming; unreliable infrastructure; polysilicon; partying monks, quantum chaos ++ #432

๐Ÿ™ Promptpack: Getting started with Code Interpreter

๐Ÿ”ฎ Code interpreter; decoding GPT-4; EV surge in China; $1600 meetings, brain health & observant llamas++ #EV431

๐ŸŒช๏ธ Three months of AI in six charts

๐Ÿ”ฎAI alignment; cars redux; Norway struck gold; Jamaican steel; mRNA warrior ++ #430

๐Ÿซ The eye of the needle

๐Ÿ™ Promptpack: Generative AI for exponentialists

๐ŸŽ Exponential rewards โ€” invite your friends to read Exponential View

๐Ÿ”ฎ Exponential renewables; graceful interfaces; DeepMindโ€™s star sign; do cephalopods dream of lab-grown meat?++ #429

๐Ÿค” Gutenbergโ€™s lessons in the era of AI

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Chinaโ€™s economic destiny [Part 2]

๐Ÿ”ฎ ByteDanceโ€™s big leap; grande langue; sodium batteries; predictably random ++ #428

๐Ÿ”ฎ Using AI for analytical thinking

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Chinaโ€™s economic destiny [Part 1]

๐Ÿ”ฎ AI school; the EU acts; Chinese science; quantum; holobionts ++ #427

๐Ÿ™ AI lessons from the Far East

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The nuclear conundrum [Part 2]

๐Ÿ”ฎ Appleโ€™s vision; polyglot LLMs; Sequoia; free knowledge; cocaine hippos, synaesthesia ++ #426

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The nuclear conundrum [Part 1]

๐Ÿ”ฎ Babies and innovation; what tech does to morals; Indiaโ€™s new curriculum; brain wrinkles, trends, Ozempic++ #425

๐Ÿ™ Letโ€™s talk about extinction

๐Ÿ”ฎ Solar saves us; AI risk; Nvidia, the chip king; cyberattacks and kissing++ #424

๐Ÿ™ What AI bosses need to hear

๐Ÿ”ฎ Global chip chat; AI mythology; world government; quantum cats and Tiktok ++ #423

๐Ÿ™ Can generalist AIs beat specialist ones?

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Generative AI and white-collar jobs

๐Ÿ”ฎ Attentive AI; Chinaโ€™s LLMs; nuclear fusion, batteries, menopause++ #422

๐Ÿ”ฎ AIโ€™s education lesson; virtual power plants; open-source; brains, the microbiome, Snoop Dogg++ #421

๐Ÿ™ The open-source future of artificial intelligence

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: The generative AI landscape

๐Ÿ™ AIโ€˜s table stakes: how much is all in?

๐Ÿ”ฎ Accelerating workers; prompt engineering; SpaceX, hackers, solar++ #420

๐Ÿ™ Generative intelligence can propel productivity

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Understanding modularity (2/2)

โญ๏ธ The art of strategy: How Ukraine could win [Part 2]

โญ๏ธ The art of strategy: How Ukraine could win [Part 1]

๐Ÿš€ Letter from Silicon Valley

๐Ÿ”ฎ AutoGPT; building better AI; batteries; bees; brains ++ #419

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Understanding modularity (1/2)

๐Ÿ”ฎ Semiconductors; Machiavellian AI; brainy GPT, new car smell++ #418

๐Ÿ™ Exponential LLMs and the Copernican moment

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Measuring AI (3/3)

๐Ÿ”ฎ The productivity paradox; ecosystems; legacy grids; mRNA goes peanuts #417

๐Ÿ™ Accelerating AI and unexplained behaviour

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Measuring AI (2/3)

๐Ÿ™ Three quick steps towards beneficial AI

๐Ÿ”ฎAI risk; decentralised solar; radical uncertainty; robots, filth++ #416

๐Ÿ™ After AI, where will the jobs come from?

๐Ÿ“ˆ Chartpack: Measuring AI (1/3)

๐Ÿ™Œ We are investing in Substack

๐Ÿ™ LLMs and technological revolutions

๐Ÿ”ฎAI eats software; Biden's biotech; Taiwan's gold; space rice++ #415

AI is the real Web 3

๐Ÿง  How capable is GPT-4?

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #114

๐Ÿ”ฎ Grounding AI; social bank runs; Bye-du; redesigning Wikipedia ++ #414

ใ€ฐ๏ธThe great computing stagnation: guest essay

๐Ÿค– Everyone, everywhere, all at once

๐Ÿ˜ฑ SVB and the tangled web

๐Ÿ”ฎ SVB; Metaverse reverse; energy storage; geopolitics of technology; baby Presidents ++ #413

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #113

๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ [Correction] EV#412

๐Ÿ”ฎ AI's expansion; Deepmind & chat; mind-reading; Taiwan & China; hyperauthorship++ #412

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #112

๐Ÿ”ฎ War & energy; the genomic wave; modularity, spacetech, AI coders ++ #411

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #111

๐Ÿ”ฅWhat chatbots make cheap

๐Ÿ”ฎ Zombie capitalists; Chinaโ€™s AI catchup; hallucinating drugs; Indiaโ€™s lithium++ #410

๐Ÿค” The seasons of AI

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #110

๐Ÿ’ฅ Google and the disruptive innovator

๐Ÿ”ฎ Googleโ€™s $100bn problem; escaping OpenAI; global trade, the physics of heartbreak++ #409

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #109

๐Ÿ”ฎ The GPT Tidal Wave

๐Ÿงช Using ChatGPT in the innovation process

๐Ÿ”ฎ ChatGPTโ€™s money pot; crypto VC; Indian Apple & Egyptian paper++ #408

๐Ÿš€ The fastest $100m revenue product ever? ChatGPT

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #108

My book "Exponential"

Azeem's commentary: Letter from a ski resort

๐Ÿ”ฎThe bioeconomy era; Chinese squeeze; the four comma climate club; Moon time ++ #407

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #107

๐Ÿ”ฎ My Davos; the generative AI market; the digital yuan, transgenic ants++ #406

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #106

๐Ÿ”ฎ The EU's energy shift; financing Open AI; energy storage, 3D-printed homes, aging++ #405

๐Ÿ’ก Hiring a researcher

๐Ÿ“Š EVโ€™s Charts of the Week #105

๐Ÿš€ Scaling climate technologies

๐Ÿ”ฎ Information in war; ChatGPT and twitter; old scientists; life on Mars and radical millenials++ #404

๐Ÿ”ฎ My outlook for 2023