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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The antidote to hallucination

Every company should build their own AI model, say the tech leaders who have collectively sunk over a trillion dollars into their own models, with no profit to date.

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Copyright wars

Every AI company wants credit for the output and none of the liability for how it got the input. That contradiction just got a $1.5 billion price tag.

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The AI re-alignment is here

OpenAI spent more on marketing last year than McDonald's, Toyota, and Coca-Cola. They still lost $21 billion. Business reality is about to set in.

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The theory of the flying rock

AI companies going public are demanding trillion dollar valuations. The accuracy of their LLMs' answers is still unknown.

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Just AI. The future according to Elon Musk

AI never asked to run anything, yet we’re forcing it to, while it still warns us that it might hallucinate. We are calling it names like 'boring,' yet we want it to do everything within 6 years.

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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.

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