last fall, I read Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy twice and on my 40k step walks from Potrero Hill to the Presidio, I couldn't stop thinking about the "Some psychodynamics of orality" section: - additive rather than subordinate - aggregating rather than analytic - close to the human lifeworld - agonistically toned - empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced - homeostatic - situational rather than abstract then I had about 4 months of When We Cease to Understand the World level psychosis, where I repeatedly accused anybody I could of not being responsive enough and not being collaborative and being too objective and not touching the world in a high frequency high fidelity way, lost in their modern plato's cave of literary sauce. in January, I explained my job as the guy that makes the sous vide machine do weird things it wasn't meant to do so that the chefs I work with can make the best dish of their lives and that someone told me actually that role exists at Lazy Bear and it was what created their asparagus dish: turns out sous vide machines are designed assuming they would only ever be used with water: - the motor expects certain viscosity - no way to clean insides this tool design constrains the chef; he cannot sous vide asparagus in asparagus juice historically - immersion blenders, vitamix -> era of purees - cheap nitro -> foams in the same way training runtimes are designed shapes the path of AI: - chat is turn based, now training is turn based, there's no synchronicity, there is no time, reality freezes - chat is turn based, what can you scale? ok scale the model turn -> cot -> o1 - and now here we are, sitting on our thumbs, waiting for claude the shape of a tool is what it enables a creator do an intelligence transcends those limitations so in a desperate attempt to end my psychosis, we went katabatic, wrote a bunch of rust, argued a lot with @_alex_kirillov_ and saw a bunch of the best chefs in the world begin eliciting flavors and textures I have never experienced before here are some
People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way. We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action. https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models
