
Anders Eidesvik
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Anders Eidesvik
@AEidesvik
Journalism student at Stanford interested in AI and solving Gell-Mann amnesia. Check out my work at https://t.co/owOIVR2FES





Right now the world is split into people who think AI is electricity and people who think AI is the assembly line. Electricity made everybody more efficient. There were some winners at the infrastructure layer (Westinghouse, GE), but nobody won by using electricity better than competitors. The assembly line, however, did have rolling waves of winners who implemented the technology more effectively. Ford won by standardizing production, GM won by creating brand segmentation to turn the vehicle into a lifestyle choice. Toyota won by creating lean manufacturing My hunch is that AI is more like the assembly line than electricity. We've already seen one paradigm shift from chats to agents, and the winners are already different.


In light of what external lawyers and the Pentagon are saying, OpenAI employees’ default assumption here should unfortunately be that OpenAI caved + framed it as not caving, and screwed Anthropic while framing it as helping them. Hope that is wrong + they get evidence otherwise


And today we have things like this: figure 03 running. This is a while body control neural net, presumably the same basic recipe from Tesla and Unitree videos we have seen. Amazing work from the figure team but running is now basically commoditized.




LLMs are trained to imitate patterns of language, not to discover or verify truth. So, when asked to speak as an expert in an area where perceived experts have a widespread misconception, the LLM will parrot that misconception, adopting the register and vocabulary of experts.


















