Week notes — 10th July 2024

This week I wrote up some back-of-the-envelope thoughts about how many people are using GenAI, prompted by the range of exposure I’ve observed in workshop participants.

Ben Evans has just done a post looking at a similar topic, which I think roughly support my rough estiamte that about 25% of working age people in the UK are using ChatGPT / Gemini regularly, perhaps 50% more have tried them, and 25% don’t use them at all.

I’ve also been looking into Multi Agent AI and thinking about how it might be applied to the Neighbourhood Plans that I’ve been using as a muse. Neighbourhood Plans often address a fairly similar set of topics, but I’m thinking that it might be interesting to consider the documents as revealing a set of preferences — some areas might be more interested in biodiversity, others in economic growth. One idea is to model the different neighbourhoods as competing or coordinating to get resources that match their preferences, with agents representing each neighbourhood.

Of course, bit rot has set in on my Neighbourhood Plans prototype and its vector search has become incredibly less effective — I’ve yet to work out why.