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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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.
AI talking to AI
We taught people how to talk to AI. Now we’re trying to set up a blind date for AI models to talk to each other. What could go wrong?
In AI We Trust, But Should We?
Months of preparation, countless rewrites, and one final moment on stage. My TEDx talk on AI is now live.
AI troubles at Apple’s kingdom
Apple promised AI that’s private, powerful, and personal. The problem? Those goals might not be compatible.
Now, it’s a puzzle Apple may not be able to solve.
AI Sand Castle Trap
AI promises convenience, but at what cost? Models are now trained on misinformation and errors, which are becoming part of the fabric of our digital world, and being portrayed as the authoritative answers to our questions.