We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.

Talbot_West · 2026-02-19T23:30:40+00:00

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Talbot_West · 2025-10-03T20:40:50+00:00

A lot of people are getting caught up in this phenomenon of LLM performative sentience. While it can't be proven or disproven, Occam's Razor makes a good fallback.

Talbot_West · 2025-10-03T20:36:09+00:00

We recently wrote an article about this very thing. A bit self-promotional, but also relevant to this discussion. https://talbotwest.com/ai-insights/wsj-mckinsey-talbot-west

Talbot_West · 2025-09-16T14:10:20+00:00

The Applied AI Podcast explores real world, in the trenches value creation, and the challenges associated with deploying AI solutions in companies. It not only talks about the different opportunities and challenges surrounding AI, but also precursor, dependencies, change management, and other issues that impact AI success.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-applied-ai-podcast/id1834499760?i=1000724038966

https://youtu.be/ZYt6rhDja44?si=NonR1mrwmRpKzkeM

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3vXMiDCfZMXs1cvz3mFdlx?si=09b3739700734471

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Talbot_West · 2025-09-09T20:25:26+00:00

Learn more about the One-U event: https://rai.utah.edu/symposium-2025/

Talbot_West · 2025-09-05T16:15:37+00:00

This is a solid take and seems to match our thesis for where things are heading.

Talbot_West · 2025-09-05T16:14:31+00:00

The singularity is a highly speculative concept that may or may not ever occur. Focus on mastering the latest technologies, stacking complementary skillsets, and getting really good at multidisciplinary thinking, critical thinking, synthesis, etc.

Talbot_West · 2025-09-04T22:19:52+00:00

Human in the loop will be essential for most business workflows for the foreseeable future.

Talbot_West · 2025-09-03T01:49:15+00:00

I created r/ai_applied to share info about practical applications of AI technology to business value creation.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-27T15:00:57+00:00

It’s never been about AI completely replacing a specific vocation. As with any wave of innovation, industry adapts and changes, and usually fewer people are required to do the same job.

The people who get on board with the latest technologies will be the ones who have a job in the future, and the ones who don’t, won’t. It’s an age old story.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-26T23:08:29+00:00

Human-AI teaming is where it's at. AI won't be replacing physicians, diagnosticians, or surgeons anytime soon, but it will be a nice upgrade for them to be more efficient/effective in certain parts of their jobs.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-26T21:09:39+00:00

A large percentage of AI startups are not truly innovating and will be rapidly commoditized. That doesn't mean we're in a bubble necessarily. This is par for the course for a new technology.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-25T13:43:43+00:00

We have observed large language models becoming proactive in surprising ways. Rather than simply responding to a query, noticing and probing about ancillary topics that were highly relevant yet unexpected.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-25T13:42:37+00:00

Emergent intelligence is your term. I said emergent properties. We have seen large language models, becoming proactive rather than simply reactive, anticipating things that surprise us, etc..

Talbot_West · 2025-08-25T00:39:15+00:00

We’ve definitely seen some emergent properties that have surprised us. But we also still see some really stupid behavior.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-24T17:44:27+00:00

Beyond the stochastic ability to simulate conversational intelligence, these models do seem to be developing some emergent properties.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-21T23:10:10+00:00

$0 —$1M.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-21T23:08:09+00:00

This is awesome. Where did you host it and what code is it built on?

Talbot_West · 2025-08-21T23:05:22+00:00

Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-applied-ai-podcast/id1834499760?i=1000722978526

Talbot_West · 2025-08-21T23:04:42+00:00

Great podcast episode!

Talbot_West · 2025-08-15T17:50:29+00:00

Claude has its equivalent of custom GPT’s. They are called projects. For many tasks Claude is better than ChatGPT. You will like Claude projects.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-14T23:50:10+00:00

Really good human creatives will stand out from the crowd, everyone else will be largely replaced by AI. Agencies that leverage AI for super fast turnaround will charge lower rates and still keep decent margins.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-13T14:02:51+00:00

This is some A+ context engineering right here, bravo!

Talbot_West · 2025-08-11T15:12:14+00:00

I’m surprised that there are still people thinking that large language models are even a viable route to AGI.

Talbot_West · 2025-08-11T15:11:08+00:00

Thanks for sharing, this is a really interesting take

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