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This is a good talk from Andrew on Agentic AI He packs a lot of info and ideas into this talk.  Andrew starts with his view that "AI is the new electricity" - because its a general purpose technology to allow building of new applications Andrew provides an overview of the current AI tech stack, but adds a new layer: an "agentic orchestration layer" applications: credo, woebothealth, workera, meeno etc. new agentic orchestration layer: langchain, crewai etc. models: openAi, anthropic, llama infrastructure: aws, google, azure chips: nvidia, amd etc. Most of the opportunity will be in building new AI applications (even though models are currently getting the most attention).  Andrew said he is "most excited" by Agentic AI (AI agents). Agentic AI is an automonous workflow which uses advanced reasoning to solve problems by reasoning, trial and error and iteration. "zero shot" when you ask a question and get back an answer e.g. original chatGpt. Agent...

Creativity. You hear the word a lot. "the creative community". "creatives". The use of the word creatives has grown massively in the last 40 years. But what is creativity?  And what isn't creativity? Can creativity be learned? How are some people creative? How can I be more creative? I read "Creativity" from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy to help me answer these questions and thoroughly enjoyed it. These are my notes summarizing the document. What is and is not creativity The term "creative" can be applied to 3 kinds of things: person process or  product (where product can be an artifact, performance or idea (a tangible outcome)) One common definition of a creative product is if it's "new and valuable". Just being new is insufficient. The philosopher Kant defined as "original" and "exemplary". Which has become somewhat of a standard definition in psychology. "value" is debateable because f...