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cloud.google.com/blog/product... I sometimes like to imagine that AI is a psyop just to get people to improve documentation by elevating markdowns to “serious engineering”

How the Open Knowledge Format can improve data sharing | Google Cloud Blog cloud.google.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Google Cloud released Open Knowledge Format v0.1, a vendor-neutral spec representing AI context as a directory of markdown files with YAML frontmatter.
  • Reference implementations include an Enrichment Agent for BigQuery, a static HTML visualizer, and sample bundles for GA4, Stack Overflow, and Bitcoin public datasets.
  • Authors Sam McVeety and Amir Hormati frame OKF as format-not-platform and call v0.1 a starting point, not a finished standard.
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This by @mmullins.coginiti.co is so good. Summary: philosophers have had a place, especially around metaphysics, in tech, but with LLMs epistemology and ethics take center stage and are no long just a necessary foundation, but a product differentiator open.substack.com/pub/msm…

Philosophers in the Machine - Matthew Mullins open.substack.com
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This by @mmullins.coginiti.co is so good. Summary: philosophers have had a place, especially around metaphysics, in tech, but with LLMs epistemology and ethics take center stage and are no long just a necessary foundation, but a product differentiator open.substack.com/pub/msm…

Philosophers in the Machine - Matthew Mullins open.substack.com
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