startups Things I've Done: Maxwell Plus It’s taken a long time to write this. Not because it was a secret but it has taken me about that long to decide what I wanted to say. The short version is that Maxwell Plus was an AI startup in health that we ran for six years, ending
AI Red Bubble, Green Bubble This post was inspired by, but isn’t solely about, the recent market panic set off by the release of DeepSeek. I don’t claim to be able to pick which new technology fads will be winners. Sometimes bubbles deflate a little but ultimately stick around. These I’ll call
AI Making a living when AI raises the bar. With the recent release of Sora from Open AI there's once again a flood of online sentiment around the end of all jobs for creatives. The technology is impressive, lets get that out the way early. There's something about video that feels more impressive than text
AI Will we mourn for Siri? I remember the first time I said "thank you" to Siri. I wasn't paying attention and had asked for a timer to be set. Nothing particularly difficult, but without much thought, out slipped "thank you". To be clear, I don't think Siri
AI Can AI help when it's "more of an art than a science"? Even within technical fields, people describe specific tasks as "more of an art than a science". Within the context of AI, many will claim that AI can do the 'science' but not the 'art'. This begs the question of what art and science entail.
AI AI will come for knowledge work, 3 ways we might respond. AI will eat the world Given enough time and compute resources, AI will replace 90% of the knowledge work we do today. At the current rate of automation that time may be shorter than we think. The 90% that is replaced by AI will be the simpler things, repetitive well
AI The importance of picking the right loss function I don't know if Drucker thought a lot about artificial intelligence but he could have been when he said, 'what gets measured, gets managed. AI models learn through a repeated effort to minimise error. How we define error can wildly change how an AI learns and how
