Michael Waxman

Thoughts

Mannered prose

I like Anthropic’s polite, euphemistic description of “AI slop,” which it calls “mannered prose.”

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It’s still early

Twice before, I felt I was late to a technology wave, when, in hindsight, I was early to the next, bigger wave.

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LLMs are literally prediction machines (that’s how transformers work), and so you’d expect them to be especially good at predicting things, e.g., for financial forecasting. I’ve found this to be generally true.

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