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@kvnhi

tech dad / value developer / ML patent author

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New post from the front lines of AI: does compute scarcity explain the most recent losses of talent from DeepMind?

AI Echo: Money, Power, Compute

AI Echo’s job (the function of this newsletter) is to bridge the gap between humans and artificial intelligence. Herein, I’ll seek to pass on information and skills to help FDE Echos create art from their work. And hopefully have some time left over for philosophy.

Yesterday, Google DeepMind began hiring their first FDEs. A few months back, Salesforce posted that their Success Architects are now FDEs. Last year, The Financial Times told us that percentage growth for job listings of forward deployed engineers, a role created at Palantir twenty years ago, has outpaced that for technical account managers, a role created at DoubleClick in the 1990s. This is a revolution decades in the making and it looks like others that have come before. So what do forward deployed engineers do?

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AI Echo: Labs hiring FDEs and philosophers

Insofar as I am a philosopher, I walk the path of Aristotle over Plato or Socrates. Socrates’s student was Plato. Plato’s student was Aristotle. Aristotle’s student was... Alexander the Great. I hope reading this newsletter will help you be great.

Although Aristotle is better known for Nichomachean Ethics, I’m a big fan of his practical ethics. In particular, its focus on “dirty hands problems.” I launch this newsletter in that spirit. Within it I’ll share a bit about how I’ve gotten, and continue to get, my hands dirty with technology.

On a recent Saturday morning, I dragged my son to the Berkeley AI and Philosophy Workshop. There were still crusties in his eyes when we got to campus. He was a great sport about it. He grabbed himself half a bagel on his way to the Howison Philosophy Library. I introduced him to David Chalmers, who was on Amanda Askell’s dissertation committee at NYU. Askell’s academic focus was on infinite ethics, but she’s better known these days as the Anthropic employee in charge of alignment tuning, giving Claude its personality.