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How Oslo Becomes Stockholm — and Stockholm Becomes Silicon Valley
Buy versus build, early capital, and why we have to stop building everything in-house if we want an ecosystem that actually flies.
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How to grow a rock
Scaling laws, the compute arms race, and the quadratic wall — how the AI industry learned that bigger models need bigger appetites.
How to teach a rock to see
From pixels to poetry — how one architecture learned to see, hear, and dream.
How to teach a rock to understand
From short-term amnesia to Attention — how Transformers broke the AI industry wide open.
How to teach a rock to write
GPT-3, hallucinations, and the art of whispering to a calculator — how the infinite autocomplete changed everything.
How to teach a rock words
From Word2Vec to Attention — how machines learned to understand words, with interactive visualizations.
When the Machines Came for the Farmers
What the Agricultural Revolution teaches us about AI's impact on the global workforce — with interactive data visualizations.
Can AI Help Design Our Mascot?
We ordered designs from freelancers and compared them to what AI could generate. The results were surprising.

An AI-Generated Art Experience
How far has AI (deep learning) come? We tested creating a fully AI-generated experience.

What is "Narrow AI part 1"
The type of AI we currently have is Narrow AI. I will with two posts try to explain what that means in practice for someone wishing to utilize deep learning.

AI Surpasses The Human Baselines on SuperGLUE
Understanding AI progress and its current capabilities through the SuperGLUE benchmark.

Training a Transformer
Some advice for training a Transformer in a new language

What does this new language understanding mean for us?
AI gets a better score than 80% of Swedes on our advanced test for language understanding
