054 - How ChatGPT with Vision Can Control Computers
Also, how to break out of your career stagnation, what the OpenAI chaos taught me about leadership and alignment, and Vitalik on Techno-Optimism.
I’m trying to get into a rhythm again posting more frequently. It just hasn’t been a priority.
So I’m going to try something different and go with a shorter post just to get it out. Let me know in the comments which you prefer! (Shorter but weekly vs wait until I can collect 5 quality links.)
Here’s what I have this week...
ChatGPT with vision can control computers
It still needs assistance from another app, but it shows how close we are to agents that can use human interfaces. Amazing and frightening.
This hit home for me, being at the same company for 16+ years, you’re going to hit some sort of stagnation.
Deb offers some good suggestions to take the initiative back and do something with your built capital.
Creating something new and trying to innovate resonated most for me.
I loved this breakdown.
“They came at the king, and missed, and made him the Emperor.”
I feel there’s probably another analysis to be done on the doomer archetype and elitism. How that feeling of being an elite blinds people to something as simple as “the will of the people.”
“They didn’t realize that OpenAI is nothing without its people.”
It’s a leadership lesson.
The board had its own goals and misread the alignment of the employees and investors. It seems like the board assumed that the destruction of the company in the name of “safety” was sufficient and that employees would understand.
Vitalik on Techno Optimism (link)
The founder of Ethereum gives his thoughts on Techno-Optimism. It’s a nuanced take that favors decentralization over pure tech positivity.
But still, we have a lot to be optimistic about.
Thanks for reading,
Andrew
