Archive - Loeber on Substack

#26: Bitcoin Without a Fight

Dial the clock back by thirteen years. Bitcoin is trading at five dollars a coin. You ask me “what will the world look like when Bitcoin is at…

Mar 9 •

February 2025

#25: Nobody's Thinking Enough About AI

A very strange thing is happening.

Feb 9 •

November 2024

#24: Insurance for AI: Easier Said than Done

In the past few months, many friends have pitched or asked me about insuring AI risk.

Nov 4, 2024 •

October 2024

#23: How to Write a Good Pitch Deck

Over the years, many friends have asked me to review their pitch decks and provide advice before they go out to raise capital.

Oct 27, 2024 •

#22: A Bubble is Rarely A Bubble

It’s a frothy time in AI.

Oct 5, 2024 •

September 2024

#21: Everything we know about LLMs doing Arithmetic

If you’re interested in large language models, then you should care about their ability to do arithmetic.

Sep 1, 2024 •

July 2024

#20: No More EU Fines for Big Tech

Over the last decade, the EU has taken an aggressive regulatory approach toward Big Tech. Citing concerns about privacy and monopolization, they have…

Jul 23, 2024 •

June 2024

#19: Waymo the Leapfrog

When people talk about self-driving cars, they usually talk about them as though they’re in the future, still a little opaque and unproven.

Jun 22, 2024 •

#18: The End of Schematic Businesses?

Many software businesses perform a schematic task: they help a user take some large, unwieldy, ever-evolving set of data, and impose some kind of schema…

Jun 4, 2024 •

May 2024

#17: Seriously, what is Intelligence?

We are in the earliest innings of an intelligence revolution: progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence is now rapid, and the innovations are…

May 5, 2024 •

February 2024

#16: Notes on Arithmetic in GPT-4

A few weeks ago, I had a list of dollar amounts that I needed to sum up.

Feb 20, 2024 •

January 2024

#15: Maybe You Should Invest in Translation

One of the traditional applications of artificial intelligence is in translating between languages. It’s so common now that it’s boring: Google…

Jan 19, 2024 •

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts