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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AI's dead end: AI TV
I bought an AI TV. I thought I'd bought the future, but what I actually got was survey calls, account traps, and a broken unsubscribe link.
Perplexing Perplexity
In the AI race, Perplexity thinks buying Chrome is a shortcut. It is not. It is a publicity stunt - a bad one.
Lies, damned lies, and AI
Delta’s CEO touts AI as a “super analyst” to set personalized flight prices. However, when questioned by lawmakers about the practice, the company denies any such practice. But the billions of extra profit are so tempting.
Mission Impossible
The government wants AI systems that are unbiased and truthful.
The catch? Nobody knows how to build one. Humans can't agree on the spec.
The myth of AI strategy
Everyone is chasing an AI strategy. Just don't ask them what that means.
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.
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.”