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Liv Erickson

Open Source, not OpenAI

The open source movement gives me hope. It's how I'm able to run multiple different interfaces to local language models that can be fine-tuned on my computers with my own data, and know that it's not leaving my own environment. It's how I can build the Firefox web browser locally, and add custom pat

TIL: How to Build Firefox from Source

Today, I learned how to build Firefox from source. I've been a Mozillian since 2019, but this is the first time that I built the browser on my own machine. My sophomore year of college, I used Visual Studio and en embedded iexplore.exe window to make a simplified browser that had bookmarks permanent

In the Era of Multi-Dimensional Computing, XR is the Future of Front-End; AI is the Future of Back-End

My work over the past ten+ (wtf?) years has focused on emerging technologies, primarily spatial computing and machine learning - so this moment is pretty spectacular to see. We're entering a new age where generative AI can create infinite worlds of content as a tool to aid and augment human creativi

SelfOS: Visions of a Personal Agent

As we begin crossing a new productivity frontier with the availability of large language models and advances in artificial intelligence algorithms, I've been thinking a lot about the use of these tools in helping us introspect and communicate. Enter the idea of SelfOS. My long-term vision for SelfOS

Is Personalized AI the Ultimate User Agent?

"A computer program representing a person" - is personalized artificial intelligence the ultimate destination for the browser user agent?

'in paradox' - an exercise in AI poetry interpretation

I created a poem using fridge magnets, then asked three different AI chat bots to interpret my work. Bard, surprisingly, nailed it.

Communicative Intent

The term "communicative intent" describes the underlying message that a human is trying to get across when they are speaking with / writing to / generating art for another human to interpret. As humans, we build on our existing models of the world and our experiences to interpret one'

NYC, One Year Later

Last April, my partner and I made the decision to sell our recently-purchased home in the greater Washington D.C. area so that I could attend business school at Columbia University and get my MBA. We're a year in, just moved into our new apartment in Astoria, Queens, and what a heck of a year it's b

Executive Functioning

Becoming comfortable with my inconsistent executive functioning has been (and continues to be) an ongoing journey in undoing internalized ableism and finding self-love. Sometimes, I struggle with executive function because I've damaged the inside of my small intestines, and my body can't absorb the

I'm scared of ChatGPT. Tay offered a better perspective.

Artificial intelligence in and of itself is not dangerous. Building systems without sufficient oversight and processes for testing influence and impact is dangerous.