In this landscape, there is a noisy mix of serious technologists and some very unserious hustlers. How do you know who to listen to?
Here are some credible voices that I feel are being honest about things they don’t know, but they also happen to know quite a lot and are worth subscribing to their newsletters or just following them on socials.
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Some of the better LLM ‘leaderboard trackers’ that measure key stats across all the currently available open and closed systems.
<aside> 🎓 Anyone working at CSAIL at MIT https://ei.csail.mit.edu/people.html
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<aside> 🎓 LMSYS.org https://lmsys.org/about/
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<aside> 🎓 Dr. Fei-Fei Li, pioneer in AI field, now founder/director of World Labs https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li World Labs is working on what comes next after LLMs, which they refer to as “Spatial Intelligence”, which are AI models that natively represent the 3d world in time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIXfYFB7aBI
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<aside> 🤵🏼♂️ Steven Van Vaerenbergh
Maintains a GitHub-hosted resource site called Awesome Generative AI a good starting point for the universe of genAI options/tools/resources
https://github.com/steven2358/awesome-generative-ai
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<aside> 🤵🏼♂️ Ethan Mollick, author of “Co-Intelligence” book summary: ****https://snackz.ai/synopsis/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/strategies-for-an-accelerating-future He has a good Prompt Library as well, https://www.moreusefulthings.com/prompts
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<aside> 🤵🏼♂️ Alan D. Thompson
Has been publishing leading research on the current market for LLMs and helping unpack the training data sets behind them. https://lifearchitect.ai/whats-in-my-ai/ https://lifearchitect.ai/about-alan/
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<aside> 👰🏼 Allie K Miller
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<aside> 🤵🏼♂️ Dr. Philippa Hardman
https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/
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<aside> 🍎 Alex Sarlin https://edtechinsiders.substack.com/
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<aside> 🤵🏼♂️ Sangeet Choudary Prescient observer of platform business models and how AI changes them
https://platformthinkinglabs.com/materials/ai-led-growth/
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<aside> 🤵🏼♂️ Scott Belsky
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