Making sense of AI Mania - by Jeremy Kirshbaum and Lev G

Hello, this month I’ve been to roughly a million conferences so it’s safe to say I’m tired. But anyway, welcome to the new shiny Secret Handshake, now housed comfortably within the confines of Substack. If you just got here, welcome. Handshake is a generative AI consultancy made up of a small team of professionals, and every month we like to share our insights and learnings in this free resource. Sign up if that sounds useful to you! Pledge your support For me a big part of understanding the recent explosion in AI’s capabilities has been to look back at how we got here. This is something that I always cover in my masterclass because I think that its useful knowledge to have when trying to navigate the landscape in the 2020s. It’s important to understand that all this AI mania is not part of a coordinated effort to make generative AI tools really popular all of a sudden (although business interests obviously do play a part in this). What’s happening right now is actually more like a con

Hello, this month I’ve been to roughly a million conferences so it’s safe to say I’m tired. But anyway, welcome to the new shiny Secret Handshake, now housed comfortably within the confines of Substack. If you just got here, welcome. Handshake is a generative AI consultancy made up of a small team of professionals, and every month we like to share our insights and learnings in this free resource. Sign up if that sounds useful to you! Pledge your support For me a big part of understanding the recent explosion in AI’s capabilities has been to look back at how we got here. This is something that