Deep Dive: Artificial Intelligence

What is artificial intelligence? How do the different models work? What is generative AI? How close are we to AGI?

Every day we are bombarded with so much news about AI that it's increasingly difficult to know what is signal and what is noise. And the tidal wave of this information came so quickly that for many, including myself, there was never a moment to take a step back and learn the basics in a way that put everything into context. As a result, I found myself with a brittle understanding of AI and often nodding in agreement about something in the space that I didn’t quite understand. So we set out to write a primer on AI like we did last month on energy transition. Assuming you had no prior…