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GenAI News q4.23: More Insane Generative AI earthquakes
I’m just going to knock these out without much editing. These are the must-see tech developments of genAI content generation for Q4 2023. Are you tracking with us? Because according to our very aggressive / optimistic AI progress forecast 2022-2030 which we authored eons ago in Nov 2022, we’re already at about 2029 on the…
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AI Deathmatch : Battle of the AI Heavyweights 2023
An, FINALLY… Google hits back. With the (half) release of Gemini , we’re ready for the cage fight of the century! No, not Zuck vs Musk… the AI Deathmatch! On Dec 6, 2023 Google upgraded its retarded Bard (well, sort of: Gemini Ultron Ultra doesn’t arrive for another 3+ months) with something akin to GPT4’s…
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the Hollywood AI Writers Strike: a wild test flight for UBI v0.1
Hollywood AI. This odd portmanteau means many things to many people. Who thought it would, however, actually be the tipping point that pushed us materially towards a UBI (universal basic income) future? It all began with a simple Writers Strike. One of many issues on the agenda was “Hollywood AI Writers vs. Humans.” Astonishingly, the…
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War of the AI Religions : Doomers vs. Accelerationists (r/acc)
There is a war brewing amongst the AI Technorati. It is a war beyond logic. It is a war of belief. It is a war of AI Religion — a genuine techno-jihad playing out in Silicon Valley, Washington DC, and the broader world. It is a war that, allegedly, if the popular narrative is to…
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OpenAI: The 800 pound gorilla
OpenAI, under Sam Altman’s leadership, is responsible for the creation and upgrading of: a) ChatGPT, which is, to date, the most viral software ever, having achieved 1,000,000 (one million) registered users in the space of 5 days (and now, 100 million users in the space of 60 days), and has been the darling of the…
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Safety vs Speed: the AI Jihad / Nov 2023
Upon further examination of the Meltdown / Coup at OpenAI, a story is starting to materialize. This isn’t about money. This is about religion. The epic battle of Safety vs Speed. This is the Jihad that’s been rocking AI frontlines for years now. So: this was not a corporate takeover from Microsoft. And no, this…
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LLM training cost: are Astronomical Increases sustainable past 2023?
What does LLM training cost? How much does it cost to train an AI these days? There was a time, when an AI training run could be done on a small cluster in your server room, across a couple of hours, or at most, days. That was cute. And ironically, we may someday return to…
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AI Computer Vision w/GPT4-V: Scene Description + Object Recognition, SOLVED
At the dawn of the 21st century — before ImageNet, before Transformer — I co-founded and ran an AI computer-vision based videogame company (PlayMotion, alongside Scott Wills, Matt Flagg, & Suzanne Roshto — that tale is a much longer story and a wonderful adventure that we’ll save for another day). At the time, AI Computer…
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Danger! Danger! Self-Driving Cars: Statistics vs. Politics in 2024
On this one, I’m siding with the robots. Self-driving cars today are already provably safer — far safer — than human drivers. There are a few caveats to this, and several subtleties to grok to understand the shape of the debate. Lets examine the angles: Self-Driving Cars are Statistically Safer today, fully automated self-driving cars…
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The Death of the Internet and the Genesis of Language 1.0
The Internet was beginning, around the turn of the century, to be the end sum repository for all human knowledge. All thoughts, all books, all diaries, all photos, all videos… basically, a document repository of everything significant (and insignificant) piece of media that humans had every produced, from the beginning of history to the present…