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Biz journalist Lynley starts AI newsletter “Supervised”

April 27, 2023

Posted by Chris Roush

Matthew Lynley

Longtime business journalist Matthew Lynley, most recently at Business Insider, has started a newsletter covering artificial intelligence called “Supervised.”

Lynley writes, “Supervised isn’t about covering the latest hot shit Generative AI startup. I want to help my readers understand the implications of a technology and the team building it—whether that’s the operational impact of AutoGPT or the impact crater it’s created in the cultural zeitgeist of AI.

“These questions are going to become more and more important as time goes on. The cost of API calls for language models may drop, but the scale of usage will increase. And there is of course the unknown side effects of this usage: carbon emissions, prompt vulnerabilities, and more.

“I wanted to start a newsletter for a practitioner without a PhD. I aim to build one one that exists somewhere between the broad audiences I tapped at Insider while not going so far as to unpack the specific details of a model’s loss function.”

Read more here.

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