Strategy has historically been one of the highest margin services a business can offer. But you are about to get COOKED by agentic AI if you aren’t ready to adapt.
Advanced reasoning for all is here. Knowledge is no longer the bottleneck.
In my testing of OpenAI’s GPT-o1 preview, I gave it a MBA style business case along with a complete list of deliverables that a McKinsey team might typically create to address the case. (I created both of these synthetically with help from Claude 3.5 Sonnet, you can read the raw material in the blog linked below.)
It thought for 125 seconds…
Then, I kid you not, it wrote for 40 minutes straight.
It produced 7 consecutive sections of the deliverable plan I requested. The material was well thought out, though it was light on the level of detail for each atomic element.
But… This was done ZERO SHOT. I literally sent a single prompt with my context (albeit a well-structured request and well-structured context) and it put out this whole response in one go.
With additional rounds of iteration with the user or longer inference time on the reasoning steps, this strategy is rapidly filled out in a more robust capacity.
I started screen recording at Deliverable 2 because I know how the new foundational model releases go. They’re a bit unhinged / loose around the edges, so you’ll get some very novel and unique behavior from a request that may then get cut off, canceled, deleted, or altered by the filtering system retroactively.
40 mins in it finally triggered a “hmm something’s wrong” response, stopped writing, then deleted its response.
#ai #gpto1 #o1 #openai
I just got a microscope. I was curious about the iridescent silver spots on my begonia leaves. So I checked them out at 25-500x magnification. The silver iridescence is caused by iridoplasts, a special evolutionary creation of begonias that lets them capture more light for photosynthesis in low light environments like a jungle floor. I discovered that the iridoplasts are in the cell walls of the begonia leaf (not the cell body, or at least not as obviously), which causes the outer shape of the cell to shine or refract nearby light. Interestingly, the ridges of the iridoplastic cell walls are taller than the regular chloroplastic cell walls, possibly giving them a little more angle to catch light and diffuse it into the cell body for more effective photosynthesis. All in all, a very curious and fascinating thing to observe at high magnification. I recorded a range of photo and video of the refraction patterns based on brightness & angle of light. Crazy. I tried googling this but there’s not much out there, just a paper or two on iridoplasts. My intrigue has been piqued and I will be going deeper on this, in true nerd fashion. Hope you enjoy these cool images- more to come.
#begonia #gardener #microscope #iridoplast #iridescent #botanyphotography
I just got a microscope. Here are some of my rock pics at 50x-250x magnification. So cool how microscopic photography can be reminiscent of satellite photography. #microscope #minerals #tinyplanet
🌶️ Sheppy’s Peppies! Habaneros and scotch bonnets with golden tomatoes and sweet onion, all in the jar with fermentation weights on top to keep it submerged. Fermented for 4 days in a ~4% salt brine, then blended up with ripe peaches, vinegar, and secret spices. Boil for ~10 mins to sterilize it, then bottle it! Final product tastes like a habanero peach cobbler.
The best part of it all is spending a creative hour in the kitchen like a mad scientist, tasting lots of different flavor combinations. Yum. (secretly the best part is burping the fermentation jar every 8 hours and watching the bubbles go haha)
#pepperlord
Vibe out to some Sheppo tracks this week! Functional Adult Club for Kids is an awesome instrumental album featuring some of my best beats. Find it wherever music is streamed ;)
PS the background track here is “Same Coin” by Sheppo
#music #lofi #beattape
