Takeaways from our study with University of British Columbia — At Maslo, we’re always asking new questions to get to the heart of the undiscovered world of computational companions. We have a strong desire to better understand how these companions should behave in the real world. To that end, we work closely with academic partners…

A new path towards generating companions “on the fly” — We’re quite fond of the team and technology at OpenAI and we’ve been busy working it into everything we do at Maslo. No doubt, the announcement today and release of OpenAI Codex aligns with our mission of making companions that care about people. We’ve been developing with this new…

Ongoing draft of a story co-written by an AI — The year is 2010. Paul Rudd looked down at Pitbull. They were sharing a bunk bed. Sheets with emblems of purple pineapples covered the mattresses, which felt oddly reminiscent of either old hockey pucks or really tightly bound bales of hay. Do you think we’ll ever make it back ? …

Invest in investors, use bankers once the work is done. — Most Investors Don’t Invest, They Bank. It is important for founders to understand the difference between the two. I’ve spent a LOT of time educating those with capital and developed my own theory on how I categorize them in each of my calls. I hope this will help other founders…

Helping people tell a story worth telling — “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Ah writing. It’s that thing that…