In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
Key takeaways
- Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to.
- Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn had a similar feeling, leading them to create In the Weights.
- “Being in the weights means your existence was deemed important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence,” the website says.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t the canonical source of information that it used to be, with just as many people learning about you and me from chatbots.
Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn had a similar feeling, leading them to create In the Weights. The “weights” in question are the numerical parameters that shape an AI model’s training and output, so the website purports to measure how well “a model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search.”
“Being in the weights means your existence was deemed important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence,” the website says.