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bernardlunn

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About bernardlunn

Retired tech entrepreneur, who made his living when the bleeding edge became the leading edge

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41267139

    Scanning headlines is free and enough for me

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    Comment #40747951

    My favorite take on startup investing by a long shot

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    Comment #40508936

    I am in the market but “ The system is not commercially available”. This is a perfect opportunity for Apple.

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    Comment #40487840

    New headline “AI robot takes psychedelics and messes up a scientific publisher”

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    First AI came for journalists, then investors then programmers

    First AI came for journalists, then investors then programmers If you run an AI business you want to replace expensive humans who are not protected by regulators. Journalists are b…

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    Comment #40256417

    Not gone but no longer in fashion, just look at valuations

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    I am pleased that trust busting is back in fashion

    I am very pleased that trust busting is back in fashion This Baby Boomer was much influenced by Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered, a collection of essa…

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    Comment #40153908

    https://on.ft.com/3Uhznrs AI could kill call centres, says Tata Consultancy Services head Chatbots will soon take over much of the work of human agents, forecasts chief of Indian I…

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    Comment #40111341

    Struggling sounds a bit judgmental but if that is the word you want - yes

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    Comment #40104014

    As a human, I like anomaly tracking if I understand what you mean by that. LLMs are maybe 99% good and 1% totally wrong (hallucination). Lots of profit betting against the 1% total…

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    Comment #40103981

    With writing the second version is definitely better, sucks having to redo but improvement makes it worth while.

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    Comment #40042036

    This bit resonates (having recently retired) “Some people work to live, while others live to work. I like to think I fall into the latter bucket.” Me too

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    Comment #39600729

    The free money era is over. It is time for that message to sink in for both founders and investors. VC funds want founders to shoot for the moon but protect themselves by a) having…

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    Comment #39431418

    I am in day 4 of tapering off, so this is only anecdotal but as each person is different anecdotal is ok. Try it and see. At the moment, with tiny amounts of caffeine my pm is bett…

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    YouTube transcript is a terrible advertisment for Google's AI?

    The mistakes would be noticed by any human paying attention. For one hilarious example, a video about WW2 mentions Herman Goring but the transcript shows Herman Gary. No content cr…

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    99% by AI is an economic and geopolitical game changer

    Let’s use a simple job like transcribing audio files as an example. 100% by AI leads to simple dumb mistakes that any human can see. Today human users tolerate such errors, but wil…

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    Annoyance as a Service

    No, that is not part of a pitch to VC. It is my name for content services that have ads for services including a premium version that you pay for directly and which do not have any…

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    Great entrepreneurs convince people that change is possible

    It is what separates great entrepreneurs from average ones. People often do not do something even though they believe it is the right thing to do, simply because they believe chang…

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    Comment #39220427

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    Comment #39201792

    Business should not pay by check - only in America is this technical debt so prevalent. Cash or payment into bank account please

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    Comment #39201148

    Brilliant article. He is totally right that what Pat Gelsinger is doing is as brave as what Andy Grove did and just as essential. In hindsight Andy Grove was 100% right and I hope …

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    Comment #38843354

    Makes sense. Innovation stacking explains speed of market penetration