Recurrent Patterns
Recurrent Patterns is a venture exploring strategies and insights around leading-edge companies, technology and cultural trends. Vaclav engages with leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and others who can share their perspectives in long-form conversations.
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Blind leading the blind
Billions of dollars, terrabytes of data, years of training, and the best minds in AI...and it still couldn’t manage a vending machine.
The 3rd device
Sam Altman says OpenAI will ship 100 million units of its new product faster than anyone has ever shipped 100 million of anything. But just what are they shipping? Will the magic touch of Jony Ive deliver?
Dumb and Dumber with AI
Using ChatGPT to write? The content is boring and forgettable. It's also making you dumber. A new MIT study confirms that.
Mr. Altman’s singularity delusion
The new superintelligent singularity is coming. It will be so cheap that it will be available to everyone. Except it won't be able to differentiate 5 from 50.
Millions of lines of old code
Modernizing old code isn’t a tech problem. It’s an organizational one. While everyone's excited about AI writing new code, most companies can’t even understand the code they already have.
AI works until it doesn't
Klarna used AI to cut 40% of its staff. Turns out, “cost efficiency” in the name of improving the stock price isn’t the same as “customer satisfaction.”
Search engines becoming summary engines
Search results used to be links. Now they’re AI blurbs that feel “good enough.” And no one goes to the source.
Hiswai. Your Personal Web
The internet needs a reset. It's time to bring back the idea of Personal Computing.
Facebook: the new digital pimp
As Meta defends its monopoly in court, it rolls out chatbots to keep users engaged by sharing their intimate secrets. The product may change, but the strategy doesn’t. It wants to own you.