Children of the Magenta

Children of the Magenta

My AI ≠ Your AI

How the same technology becomes a thousand different tools and why "it depends" is the only honest answer to any question about AI.

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Sami Makelainen
Mar 26, 2026
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You will have seen this on LinkedIn or other social media: people give ChatGPT or another LLM something fairly basic — counting r’s in ‘strawberry’, for example; a recent one was about walking or driving to a nearby car wash — which it then gets wrong, and people laugh at how dumb AI is.

On one hand these stupid things are a useful reminder; on the other…

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