Alice Albrecht

Tell me you're augmented by AI without telling me you're using AI. Big launch @recollect_ai! I'm incredibly proud of what we've built and now we can meet you wherever you are.

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@dileeplearning Congrats! It's exciting to see you leading the charge on this one.

Love catching up with @danshipper- reflecting on our prior AI predictions and debates, and making some new ones.

It's been a whirlwind few months, and I'm catching my breath enough to share some big news here! The @recollect_ai team has officially moved to @smartnews! If you're interested in hearing more check out the official post about.smartnews.com/en/2024/09/26/….

I have so much love for the NY tech scene past, present and as it evolves.

It was really great to catch some time with this community last night and see what everyone was working on.

I had a great time having this conversation with @arbesman. Cheers to all those making orthogonal bets- we need more of them.

Excited to demo alongside some of my favorite builders next week. If there's any space, you should definitely check it out. They've done a fantastic job with the lineup.

@MichaelDean_0 @osventuresllc Congrats Michael!

I'm thrilled to announce my @osventuresllc Fellowship, where I’ll turn my philosophy of craft into code. This year ahead is set up to be a fusion of all my past threads: architecture, technology, and writing. I’ll be mapping patterns, reviewing classic essays, publishing a textbook, and developing an AI-powered editor to guide writers towards mastery. Special thanks to @jposhaughnessy and the team for this incredible opportunity. Follow along here and on my website for weekly chapters, essay breakdowns, and updates.

@chazfirestone Very well played @chazfirestone. For the record, I do, in fact, read. Hybrids do exist!

Nice! I predict that "cognitive architecture" will "go viral" — a term I just came up with for spreading quickly and widely across social media platforms

@Wattenberger @recollect_ai That and our web app has “Playgrounds” with an infinite canvas. The Sidecar is our native Mac app where the “canvas” is the Desktop.

@AliceAlbrecht @recollect_ai Nice! You’re talking about this functionality?

Getting all of my thoughts down and organized is always the hardest part when writing something. At least for me. I'm playing with an interface that you can speak to. It will jot down index cards as you're rambling and organize them into main topics.

I'm so excited to launch Gist today! This is a whole new way to augment your thinking and help you reduce information overwhelm. It goes so far beyond a generic summary—I can't wait for what this unlocks.

Love these human x AI research findings.

@ivanhzhao I think it'll be the opposite. AI makes it possible to fix this anti-pattern in modern computing.

Software has been fragmented over the past decade with SaaS. Will AI make it worse? The AI/LLM revolution gives us a new kind of computer/CPU (from cloud compute on demand to intelligence on demand.) But the storage/data/context layer remains fragmented. Compute without context can’t do much. In classic software, humans bridge the context gap with tab switching and copy/paste. Current AI tools/agents are like hiring many interns who can’t talk with each other and require individual handholding. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

We're demo'ing tonight 06/04 @lightspeedvp's Generative NYC event, tomorrow 06/05 @playhiddendoor HQ and Thursday 06/06 @BloombergBeta's AI After Hours event. Hope to see people there if you're in NYC. #nytechweek.

I've probably never been so glad we rely on open-source models as I am today with both OpenAI and Anthropic down. We're demo'ing all week at Tech Week events and I'm wondering if we'll be one of the few still able to demo?

@karinanguyen Congrats! I love that you’re posting your reflections as you transition. Excited for what you build next!

Life update: After ~2 years at Anthropic, I joined OpenAI! This wasn’t the easiest decision and I’m very grateful to everyone who is supporting me through this transition, especially John, Barret, Boris, Mira, and Sam. I joined Anthropic as the first designer / front-end engineer when there were ~60 people and left as a researcher when there were >500. I learned so much and hope that every project I’ve worked on, be it a UI, a paper, or a trained Claude model, will still carry all the love and care I put in. Some lessons learned: 1. The pace of a team’s progress is largely a function of its decisiveness and open-mindedness to take risky paths. 2. Every time you train a new model there will be an inevitable brain damage that needs to be solved and often you can reverse engineer the issue by carefully looking at the data. 3. The simplest and dumbest approach will often just work. 4. You have to go through the entire journey of full understanding to arrive at the simplest answer. 5. When technology is so transformative, it’s your job to tell customers what they need to do with it to solve their problems. 6. Scaling the company’s culture requires fostering internal champions for your core values. 7. In research, the beauty often lies in taking experimental ideas and making them work on a larger scale. In product engineering, the beauty lies in refining a visionary design idea to its most essential form you can execute within given constraints. 8. Early mishires will have 10x effects as the company grows. It is more heartbreaking when the organization is blind to this (e.g. they don’t let go and rather allow them to influence a lot of important decisions) 9. Evaluations are going to be an inevitable part of the story for your product. You can help academia by adopting their evaluations in your model card, and that’s the position of power that is really important to recognize responsibly. 10. Being the first design-oriented person is challenging and often you will end up teaching people how to think rather than doing things. But you can learn a great deal about fundraising and shape the public perception by continually making beautiful demos and communicating research clearly. 11. Not being afraid to jump into unknown problems, taking more responsibilities, and doing 200% more than what is asked for is how I personally grew the most. 12. Unique writing cultures shape how ideas take place. 13. Playing a catch up game is efficient. 14. Doing good work and being kind to people you collaborate with is how I built the most meaningful friendships in my life. It’s been a wonderful journey delivering Claude 3 models, and I’m very excited to continue working on AGI and it safety by learning from incredibly talented researchers and product people at OpenAI.

Our foundation for connecting your ideas (the way only you would) is solidly in place and now things are starting to accelerate fast. This phase of my master plan is going to be 🔥. What if using an AI tool felt more like YOU, but better?

@kaseyklimes Love this book. They will absolutely be fine.

spending all my political capital with my students upfront and giving them an assignment due on the first day of class (they’re reading chapter 1 of Thinking in Systems and making a stock and flow model with Loopy, they’ll be fine) ncase.me/loopy/