‘ the confidence chain — a series of proofs, only as strong as its weakest link. Who created this data or content; can you prove that they created it; can you prove they are who they say they are; is what they created ‘good’; and does it match what I need or want? Signatures, provenance, identity, quality, curation. ‘

‘ Efficiency lowered the price of coal energy, leading to more demand for that energy from society at large.

Something very similar is happening with the data-software complex. It’s not just that data and software reinforce each other in a productivity flywheel. It’s not just that generative models produce and consume data, produce and consume code. It’s that the price of ‘informed computation’ has fallen, and the consequence is that there will be a lot more informed computation in the world. ‘