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 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.
DeepSeek hysteria
The debate around DeepSeek should go much deeper than the technology. How much do you really know about the models that we've come to rely on?
Teaching an old monkey new tricks
When AI news flooded all the media channels, there was huge optimism that we were on the verge of greatness. The Super Intelligent thing is around the corner. If AI could just crunch enough data, it could solve any problem in mathematics and beyond. Not even close.
Hard to compete with free
Open source software is supposed to help companies innovate and collaborate. I question whether the biggest tech companies in the world are using the open source framework to actually stifle competition from startups.
Oil and data. There will be blood
Are we running out of data the same way we are running out of oil? Media reports suggest we are exhausting our supply of data to train AI. It turns out those stories have a lot in common with past predictions that we would run out of oil.
Clippy, the dead are walking again
Microsoft's latest unveiling, Microsoft Copilot, is already like reading from The Book of the Dead, where the legendary Clippy is guiding Copilot to the afterlife.