Arun Krishnan

From the diary of Jane Densmore, dating coach for men in Seattle. “I’d like for you to write me a Tinder profile,” the engineer says. “Of course,” I smile. “Tell me about some of your accomplishments.” “Well, I worked on the Amazon BASE-large model,” he says. I sit up. “Wait, the one with 980 million parameters?” “That’s the one,” he says. “Most women in Seattle will only date men that have worked on models with at least 1.5 billion parameters.…

From the diary of John J, Abe Lincoln’s speechwriter President Lincoln has changed. It’s almost like he’s been taken over by the spirit of some other person. The other day, he stared at the body of a soldier whose gun had run out of bullets. I expected him to say something poetic like “The highest merit is due to the soldier”, but all he said was “Supply chain optimization.” I show him the text of a news speech I have…