Biz journalist Lynley starts AI newsletter “Supervised”

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.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.