Diamond Bishop

the diamond age: or, a techno-optimist's somewhat illustrated web page

About Me

I am a techno-optimist that sometimes thinks too much about Roko’s basilisk

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.

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. I’ve been working in or studying AI

first off, it's two letters

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for over a decade. Nowadays I’m working on making AI systems your teammate

the teammate who never sleeps and can be paged any time

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, and tinkering on various projects.

I angel invest occasionally, advise early stage AI startups, and consult for the right applied AI/ML problems

usually spoken/digital assistants related or something very novel

. I love chatting with interesting people, and if you want to talk tech or new ideas, and we align

you’re in my area

 in the space-time continuum hit me up

diamond@diamondbishop.email || twitter.com/diamondbishop

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I started programming when I was 13 while growing up in the Caribbean

the island of St.Croix in the US Virgin Islands

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and continued my education in the northeast

Bucknell (BS in Computer Science & Engineering, minors in math & econ) -> Drexel (MS in Computer Science, focused in AI/ML)

. After spending a little time in defense tech

Lockheed Martin 🇺🇸

, I ended up on the west coast

Seattle mostly, lots of time traveling to the tech mecca of San Francisco

 working for a variety of FAANGs

Microsoft (Cortana/Xbox) -> Amazon (Alexa/AWS) -> Meta/Facebook (Pytorch)

 (MAGMAs?) on applied AI projects before starting my own company

Augmend: AI that clones software services operational experience from humans

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I spend much of my time raising a budding human intelligence

my son, just a little guy

who needs a lot of data and training time. I also sail, work on hobby electronics projects, and try to stay active through competitive sports

soccer, drone fighting, the usual

 since we still can’t upload our brains.

the globe turns

Latest Thoughts

RPA is dead, long live RPA(gent)!

2024-Aug-08

Agents are everywhere, but nowhere at once, and no one has cracked the code. Many Agents that do work require very little reasoning or thought over multiple turns or time, making them little more than glorified LLM calls. This has to change if we are to build the next generation of intelligent systems...

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