Beyond the Imitation Game: The Reinforcement Revolution What changes when a machine stops learning from humans and starts learning from reality

Just published my first article for Generative AI magazine: Language models learn by imitation. Reinforcement learning changes the signal to whether something actually worked. Why this matters, and where Karpathy's autoresearch fits in.

generativeai.pub/ac78019190d6

#AI #LLM #AutoResearch

System Prompts, Commands & Skills: How AI Personalization Grew Up Three ways to shape an AI assistant and why they’re not interchangeable

System prompts, commands, and skills look similar. They're not.

One is always-on context. One is a workflow you trigger. One is expertise the model applies on its own judgment.

#AI #Claude #Skills

pub.towardsai.net/af2fc985fa74

The Long Road to Overnight Success — Neural Nets from McCulloch-Pitts to Transformers The forgotten ideas, dead ends, and stubborn breakthroughs behind today’s AI

Neural networks were declared dead twice. Both times, someone frustrated enough engineered a way through.

I traced 25+ architectures across 80 years. Six families of ideas, each born from a wall the previous generation couldn't get past.

medium.com/towards-arti...

#AI #History

Deep Research vs. Broad Research: How AI turned Information Retrieval into Personalized Learning On iteration, depth, and learning at your own pace

"Just Google it" sounds dated now.

I ask AI instead. The real shift is the follow-up questions. That's where understanding happens.

New post on how iteration changed the way I learn:

ai.gopubby.com/7f4c45d86d57

Your AI Has Assembled a Profile of You: Here’s What It Knows I asked AI to profile me, what came back was uncomfortably accurate

Your AI has been building a psychological profile of you.I asked mine to show it. Uncomfortably accurate. Here's the prompt + what it means 👇

ai.plainenglish.io/7863e640ea61

State of the AI: January 2026 Report From pilot to production: Tracking the shift to agentic systems and the commoditization of reasoning

New: State of the AI: January 2026

- GPT‑5.2’s reasoning jump
- Agentic coding pilots everywhere
- Token prices falling fast
- EU GPAI rules now real procurement constraints

A hands-on briefing for 2026 planning, published in "Towards AI" magazine.

medium.com/towards-arti...

The Idea That Started AI and the Researchers Who Built It In the summer of 1956, a small group of researchers convinced themselves that thinking was computable and that eight weeks could prove it

The idea that started AI: How 4 researchers in 1956 bet thinking was computable and launched 70 years of progress. Dartmouth Conference story now live on Medium.

➡️ medium.com/ai-in-plain-...

#AIHistory #McCarthy #Minsky #ArtificialIntelligence

The Omnibar Pattern: A Simple Architecture for Real-World AI Don’t lock your AI in a browser tab. Build a utility that lives at your fingertips.

Excited to announce my first article for Towards AI magazine:

I built an "Omnibar AI" that connects my command line directly to #OpenAI using #n8n. For zero-friction intelligence at your fingertips.

Here is the full architectural guide:

medium.com/towards-arti...

#AI #Automation #Productivity

AI-First vs. AI-Native: The Distinction Your Company’s Future Depends On Retrofit with AI or rebuild around it: which are you, and what should you do next?

AI-first = adding intelligence

AI-native = rebuilding the business around it

One optimizes, the other rewrites the rules. Which one are you really?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AINative #AIFirst #Strategy

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Crafting Prompts That Click: A Framework-Driven Guide (Plus Your Ready-to-Use Prompt Generator… Master proven frameworks like COSTAR and TCREI, plus get a plug-and-play prompt generator template for modern AI systems

Ever spent hours tweaking prompts with no improvement? My first piece for @AIAdvances shows you proven frameworks (COSTAR, TCREI) and a plug-and-play generator template. Stop guessing, start engineering.

ai.gopubby.com/cefdc03085b3

#AI #PromptEngineering

Explain Like I’m Human: The Reality Check We Need About AI Explainability The cognitive mismatch between human expectations and AI reality and why understanding machines may be like a five-year-old trying to…

Explain Like I'm Human: Asking a neural network to break down billions of parameters is like a 5-year-old demanding you explain quantum physics.

My latest for @inPlainEngHQ :

ai.plainenglish.io/2a80ede090bb

#AI #ExplainableAI #MachineLearning

Reasoning Models Are Just Internalized Prompt Engineering: How AI Learned to Question Itself How four breakthroughs taught AI systems to automatically do what skilled prompt engineers were already doing manually.

Just published my first article in @aimindlabs! 🚀

How did AI go from predicting "butter" after "bread and" to solving Math Olympiad problems? Reasoning models learned to automatically do what skilled humans were doing manually.

medium.com/ai-mind-labs...

#AI #PromptEngineering

My AI Writing Compass Everything I’ve Written About AI (So Far)

Made a simple guide through everything I've written about #AI so far. Four pillars: systems, intelligence, work, and history.

Find your starting point: medium.com/@bergholz/9a...

Model Choice in the GPT-5 Era: Spend Smart, Ship Fast, Defer the Fancy GPT-5 is the default; model choice still matters for cost, speed, and special features.

Which AI model is ‘good enough’ for the job? This guide breaks down model selection, cost, and creative fit—plus a visual workflow cheatsheet for busy teams:

medium.com/@bergholz/b6...

My ChatGPT conversations start with one thing: a well-crafted system prompt.

Here’s the one I use, why it works, and how I keep it sharp.

ai.plainenglish.io/7e926b8396d0

#ChatGPT #PromptEngineering #AI

Beyond Calculation: AlphaGo and the Birth of Machine Creativity How one move on a 19×19 board rewrote the rules of artificial intelligence

AlphaGo’s historic victory over Lee Sedol was more than another win for AI. It was a first glimpse into the future of machine creativity. My latest Medium article explores what AlphaGo really changed. Read here:

ai.plainenglish.io/3dfbc0bc0efb

#AI #AlphaGo #DeepMind #GoGame

Truth, Trust, and Hallucinations How to navigate the fine line between useful creativity and confident nonsense.

🚀 New on Medium and in AI in Plain English: “Truth, Trust, and Hallucinations” @inPlainEngHQ

Explore how modern AI balances accuracy and trustworthiness, plus strategies for spotting and reducing hallucinations.

Read now → medium.com/@bergholz/17...

#AI #LLMs

When Intelligence Becomes Free: The Economics of AI Abundance How the Drop in the Cost of Intelligence Is Redefining Work and Global Opportunity

Thrilled to share that my article “When Intelligence Becomes Free: The Economics of AI Abundance” has just been republished in AI in Plain English Journal! @inPlainEngHQ

Originally published June 25, 2025, on my personal feed.

medium.com/ai-in-plain-...

From GPT-3.5 to Now: 10 Breakthroughs that Changed the AI Game A timeline of the most important leaps in AI since November 30, 2022

🚀 My first article for AI @inPlainEngHQ is live!

From GPT-3.5 to RAG, agents, open source, and beyond — here are 10 breakthroughs that reshaped the AI landscape since late 2022.

👉 medium.com/ai-in-plain-...

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLMs

When Intelligence Becomes Free: The Economics of AI Abundance How the Drop in the Cost of Intelligence Is Redefining Work and Global Opportunity

Intelligence is no longer scarce. As AI drives the marginal cost of “thinking” toward zero, the entire economy reshapes around abundance. 💡🌍

👉 medium.com/@bergholz/b6...

#AI #FutureOfWork #Economics #GenerativeAI

How I Use AI Tools to Work Smarter (and Where They Still Fall Short) AI is more than a tool, it’s a teammate. Here’s how our collaboration helps me write, plan, and build smarter every day.

New on Medium:
💡 How I use AI to work smarter — and where it still needs me.
It’s not just automation. It’s collaboration.
🧠✍️👨‍💻
🔗 medium.com/p/234f041e694f
#AI #Productivity #Tools #Writing

Proclaimed Dead Twice: The AI Winters How the collapse of symbolic AI triggered two brutal winters and reshaped the future of artificial intelligence

Did you know that AI research nearly froze twice? My latest Medium article explores how symbolic AI collapsed, what triggered the infamous “AI winters,” and how machine learning sparked today’s AI revolution.
Read here: medium.com/@bergholz/58...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

From Google to Perplexity: Rethinking Search in the Age of Answers Search is changing. It’s no longer just about finding links. It’s about getting real answers.

After more than 25 years, I switched my default search engine from Google to Perplexity. Here’s why, and what it means for how we get answers online now.

Read my latest on Medium: medium.com/p/98db76027259

#AI #SearchEngines #Perplexity #Google #Productivity

Modern AI Doesn’t Pass the Turing Test. It Outsmarts It. What today’s AI reveals about the Turing Test — and about ourselves.

Modern AI doesn’t pass the Turing Test.
It outsmarts it.

My first Medium article explores why today’s AI doesn’t try to imitate us and what that says about the test, and about us.

🧠 Read here: medium.com/@bergholz/54...

Bundeshaushalt 2025: Einnahmen & Ausgaben aufgeschlüsselt Ein großer Teil des Budgets des Bundeshaushalts fließt in Sozialleistungen, aber auch in Projekte für Bildung, Forschung oder die Bundeswehr.

Es klingt auch im Video an, dass leider keine Partei den "Elefanten im Raum" adressiert (denn von diesem Elefanten profitiert natürlich die größte Wählergruppe).

Auch gut: Das interaktive Sankey-Diagramm, dass die ganze Sache intuitiv visualisiert: www.finanzfluss.de/bundeshausha...

So gibt der DEUTSCHE STAAT unser Geld aus! | Finanzfluss Bundeshaushalt Analyse YouTube video by Überfluss

Vor der #Bundestagswahl hat Überfluss, der Zweitkanal von @finanzfluss.de, eine wirklich gute Übersicht über den Bundeshaushalt aufgezeigt. Wichtige Fakten, die man vor der Wahlentscheidung mit den eigenen Prioritäten abgleichen sollte. Hier der Link zum Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzh...

I was only a child when #JimmyCarter was president, but even back then I could sense that he was a good human being (though I lived on the other side of the iron curtain). Will always be my favorite US president. One hundred years, what a life! Rest in peace, you great peanut farmer from Georgia!

Still one of the most unobvious facts I ever came across: The 13th of the month really is more often a Friday than any other day of the week. tinyurl.com/bjyhk6u3 #Friday13th