Charles Williamson

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think and learn like humans. It involves the development of algorithms and computer programs that can process, analyze and make decisions based on data.

The impact of AI on leverage, work and employment

The implications of recent advancements in artificial intelligence are being widely under-estimated. We're seeing artificial intelligence being applied to certain common tasks like the creation of blog posts, and the generation of images. These use cases on their own are significant jumps in productivity, which allow what would

Automating SEO

Over the weekend I built a tool to begin to automate the SEO efforts for my companies - I strongly believe that SEO is a great growth channel, but most people are not patient enough to see great outcomes. With Stairway, we were able to be the top search result

The New Architecture

It's no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the software development world. But what's currently less discussed is the significant difference in architecture between traditional software development and AI-driven development, and the implications of this. In the olden days, software development was deterministic, using logical

What are fields of study that should exist but don't?

I asked this question to ChatGPT recently, and was surprised that I agreed completely with the answer. I find this an interesting question because people look at the subjects on offer in school and at universities today, and assume that they are the limit of the disciplines that should be

AI Flywheels

The most compelling AI-first companies will find a clear flywheel: a good product begets users begets more data, easing research complexity to build stronger generalized models which begets great products. — Suhail (@Suhail) January 28, 2023 I've written before about flywheels more generally within digital products and the building

Building an AI assistant

As part of my goal this year of building a personal holding company (Positive Sum), I've found myself working on a wide variety of tasks; anything from writing code, writing blog posts or managing finances. As mentioned in previous posts, one goal I have for Positive Sum is

Unlocking value in AI

2022 brought with it a lot of new advances to the accessible capabilities of artificial intelligence. Following on from that, I believe that 2023 will be the year that artificial intelligence finds much more mainstream adoption, as products are built on top of the infrastructure itself, for specific use cases.

Interesting use cases of ChatGPT

Two days ago, ChatGPT was released by OpenAI. It's built for conversational interaction, trained on GPT3.5. Here is a collection of the best examples I've seen so far.

Avatar AI - Results

I tried out Avatar AI by Pieter Levels, to generate artwork of myself in various styles. Here are some of the best ones that it created. I think they came out pretty well.

AI Generated Profile Pictures

More and more people are building public in the AI space. One use cases that has recently emerged is being able to train your own model to create avatar images of yourself.