Jared Rand

35 posts

How to Maximize Reach of Blog Articles about AI

As AI and data science writers we may not put too much thought into how to maximize the reach of our blog articles. We focus first and foremost on writing highquality content, then maybe share it on our social media…

March 30, 2025

AI Search Broke the Internet

I wrote a post almost a year ago titled "AI Search Will Break the Internet." Well, that day has come. AI search has officially broken the Internet. Some of the first quantitative analyses of referral traffic from AI…

March 8, 2025

Can LLMs Synthesize New Knowledge?

My old friend Ryan Casey posed this question recently, and wrote up a nice theory with a proposed solution to the question which he calls Probabilistic Knowledge Synthesis (PKS). The purpose of my post here is to…

September 26, 2024

How AI Can Disrupt Social Media and End Addiction

Social media is the new nicotine. The Surgeon General already declared as much for youth in May, and as of yesterday is being urged by 42 state attorneys general to do so for adults as well. I see it's toxic effect…

September 12, 2024

Climate Tech Is About To Get Desperate

The new reality is that the next wave of climate tech investments will be bold, outlandish, desperate, and probably dangerous. In 2022 the world had a viable path towards solving climate change. The recipe was simple…

May 6, 2024

AI Search Will Break the Internet

The contract between creators and distributors of digital content is broken. The Contract Since the dawn of the Internet, the basic contract between search engines and content creators has been this: 1. Search engines…

March 30, 2024