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Back to EpisodesThe Power of Focus: What Early AI Models Taught Me | Daily Essay
Description
In 2012 I gave a side project two hours of deep work each morning before my day job. It failed and I dropped the habit with it. METR grades AI models by the longest task they can finish, and a person with chopped-up attention is stuck where GPT-2 was.
Featuring: Ken Thompson, Llion Jones
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Chapters:
(00:00) Attention is all you need
(00:04) Building Shommi before work in 2012
(00:23) Dropping the deep work habit
(00:37) How METR grades AI models
(01:04) Chopped-up attention
(01:09) Ken Thompson's four weeks and Unix
(01:35) Two and a half hours each morning
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