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 circus monkey
OpenAI organization announced on November 30th, 2022 the availability of ChatGPT. This is the next version of GPT3, which supports a dialog between a user and machine. GPT3 is a language model, which provides answers to requests like 'write me a short story about a boy and his dog' or 'create a blog post about blockchain'. Unlike GPT3, ChatGPT is supposed to carry on a dialog as you dig deeper into a topic.
How tech can save you from a hangover (or help you with your resolutions)
Last year, we uncovered quite a few tools to alleviate your hangovers — from noise canceling headphones to a morning recovery supplement. Let’s take a look at the latest anti-hangover tech.
The most electrifying Recurrent Patterns of 2022
As another year slowly comes to a close, I’d like to thank you for another year of conversations and explorations into recurrent patterns.
The big party is closer than ever
December 5th, 2022 will be remembered as a milestone in moving humanity closer to having an unlimited source of energy available to us. The scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced a successful fusion experiment where they achieved an ignition. The most important outcome? It produced more energy than it consumed.
The missing link in the blockchain
Don’t think about the technology first. The first step is figuring out the business problem you’re looking to solve. Then you can start looking at solutions, which might include technology.
By the balls
This week, we all saw a very big fight between the richest man in the world and the richest company in the world. Those who were hoping for a nuclear exchange between Elon Musk and Tim Cook at Apple must have been disappointed when they made peace.
Nobody wants to talk to computers
The original thought behind Alexa and Google Assistant and Siri (Cortana doesn't count) was that we would surround ourselves with these magical boxes and engage in conversation. However, most of the commands are 'play music', 'what's the weather tomorrow', or 'start the timer'.
Time to sue AI
Millions and millions of bits and bytes have been used to write about AI. Some of the evergreen topics tend to focus on biases, people losing jobs, or AI being sentient. Not much is written about how little we know about what's happening inside the algorithms. Similarly, we know less than you may think about how to test AI. And related to testing, we have issues with the training of AI systems.
The right platform to build the next pyramid
How did the Egyptians build pyramids without Slack and Office365? We are living inside Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, searching for the holy grail of communication and collaboration.
Making money while driving to the office
Today's example is brought to you by Hivemapper. Its promise is that you can earn money while you are driving. Now, it’s not like Uber or Lyft where you have to drive someone around or deliver food. No, just for driving around you can get paid.