Technical Challenges

Ford has admitted to rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired. “We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles. Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs. “According to Subquadratic, it has developed a new kind of LLM, called SubQ, that is faster and cheaper and uses a lot less energy than any other model on the market.” The article goes on to discuss independent tests of Subquadratic’s claims, which do suggest that there’s some there there. How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization. I was not allowed to type prompts into ChatGPT during my chalk talk and this is discrimination. Close enough to the bone that some…