California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AIOct 29
gavin newsom just signed eight bills that effectively turn ai into the most heavily regulated nascent consumer technology in modern history
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LLM Applications I Want To See
ideas for actually making practical use of large language models
Sarah Constantin
Mar 13, 2025
Sarah Constantin is an AI and science researcher. Early in her career, she was a deployed computational engineer at Palantir, and she later founded a company to research human lifespan extension technologies. She's now a program officer at Renaissance Philanthropy funding AI tools for advanced math research. Today in Pirate Wires, Constantin imagines six creative, genuinely useful applications for LLMs that go far beyond "a chatbot, but better."
This piece was originally published in Constantin's Substack, Rough Diamonds.
California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AI
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