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ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide To How It Works
Once you understand a few core concepts, modern chatbots are less mysterious.
 • Jon Stokes
Getting Started With Stable Diffusion: A Guide For Creators
Everything you need to know to jump right into AI content generation, without breaking the bank.
 • Jon Stokes
Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world
If they do it, it won't be for the microchips
 • Jon Stokes
AI Content Generation, Part 1: Machine Learning Basics
This technology is already changing the creative industry. Here's how it works.
 • Jon Stokes
Doing Real Work With LLMs: How to Manage Context
Of roguelikes and grounding problems
 • Jon Stokes
How to Do Real Work With LLMs, Part 1
3D flight simulators and Turing tests are cool, but some of us have real work to do
 • Jon Stokes
I Say This Unironically: Our Society Is Not Prepared For This Much Awesome
The AIs are just going to keep doing this, but it's not all bad.
 • Jon Stokes
Web3: the rise of the aligned web
It's coming to replace the adversarial web. Let's hope it also comes to the US.
 • Jon Stokes
Here’s What It Would Take To Slow or Stop AI
Everyone should be clear about what they're asking for when they propose to put a stop to all this.
 • Jon Stokes
The Latent State Window and the Limits of Reasoning in LLMs
A detailed look at recent papers on the limits of reasoning in LLMs.
 • Jon Stokes
In Defense of Cluely.com
Sometimes cheating is good, actually
 • Jon Stokes
Be Not Afraid: Gods, Monsters, and Generative AI
This past June, Julie Fredrickson and I handed out AI whitepills to a conference full of farmers, academics, dissidents, and not a few Uncle Ted fans…
 • Jon Stokes and Julie Fredrickson
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