The creator of one of my favorite models on replicate:

replicate.com/shefa/turbo-en…

Also has a YouTube channel where he uses AI to augment his music with visuals:

youtube.com/watch?v=CBLgKB…

In 1977 Dan Bricklin quit programming to get an MBA because he thought programming would cease to be an occupation due to code libraries and other abstractions that made using computers easier. (In his defense he was doing very high level programming)

While studying at Harvard…

NYTimes is now doing comedy writing:

'Stability AI’s financial position looks better than those of language-model makers like Anthropic because developing image generation systems is less expensive, A.I. investors said.'

Do those A.I. investors by chance have a large position…

I really loved Fallout. I never played the game and know very little about the back story, but really enjoyed the show.

memory won't make a difference in your ChatGPT experience on day 1.

but! we hope you'll find that the more you use it, the more helpful it gets over time.

we're still iterating on the experience – like what it chooses to remember and how it uses the info – and would appreciate…

My friend bram adams has been exploring the idea of personal library science as a field where understand more about how to organize our own knowledge:

bramadams.dev/issue-55/

My article in Reason where I make the counter-intuitive argument that AGI will lead to the lowest unemployment rate in history because there will never be enough people, compute or robots to meet the demands of an AI-fueled economy.

reason.com/2024/04/28/in-…

Why AI will bring 0% unemployment

reason.com/2024/04/28/in-…

learning how to say something in 30 seconds that takes most people 5 minutes is a big unlock

I’m still seeing the claim that LLMs can’t do puzzles like Wordle. Solutions (including mine) have been around for over a year.

Prompt engineering often requires thinking in terns of tokens.

andrewmayne.com/2023/03/29/how…

In the upcoming issue of Reason magazine I make the case for 0% unemployment in an AGI future.

Not via UBI or made-up jobs, but through economic growth that will always outpace the supply of labor.

reason.com/issue/june-202…

One of the reasons Microsofts Phi-3 model performs so well is because they're using curriculum training. That's where you start with simple structured text like children's stories and progress from there.

Quality and structure of data matter. Not all tokens are equal –…

It may seem mundane, but to me, this is a long-awaited culmination of the potential I hoped for on the very first day I ever downloaded and tried GPT-2

Applications like this, advancing the sciences. This is what I’m here for.

Time for universal, programmable cancer vaccines

Profluent has successfully edited human DNA with an AI designed gene editor.

Remarkable for many reasons, particularly the future it points to: one where AI designs specifically what’s needed to cure diseases. Coverage from The New York Times below in thread.

I'm enjoying Shogun. (I'm a fan of the book and the 1980s series as well)

My one nitpick about historical accuracy is that they never show any dogs (other period shows make the same mistake.)

Dogs would be everywhere in the Edo period.

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Very sorry to hear about the passing of Daniel Dennett. Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea, were profoundly influential on me.

He is part of my big three including Matt Ridley and Richard Dawkins.