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ChatGPT4o Oh Oh Nooooooo : “She” — I mean “Her”– is finally here
ChatGPT4o-Oh is here. You read that right. Like Hawaii Five-Oh. Ostensibly, the “o” is for “omni”, a reference to the truly multimodal nature of the model (more on that later, it’s truly insane from a technical standpoint). Mira Murati, OpenAI’s flagship woman-in-tech, made the announcement: Preying on Lonely Young Men Now, interestingly, we really haven’t…
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The Robots are Coming: Here’s the Plan, Humans!
The wonks call it “AI job displacement”… but let’s just call a spade a spade: With the coming wave of autonomous AI software agents, combined with humanoid robot workers, there will be a massive leap in human unemployment. Ironically, it will probably affect the most industrialized and “developed” nations first. As mentioned all across this…
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Why do We Risk Our Lives to Climb Mountains?
My recent adventures on the slopes of Mount Whitney (see 1 the initial summit & 2 the redemption mission), and the dancing with death that were a result of both, has me deeply thinking about the why of mountaineering. And not just for me — for Alex Honnold, for Scott Fischer — for anyone who chooses…
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The Age of Abundance : Quantum Compute, Fusion Energy, and UBI
Welcome to 2024, Humans. The aim is to make this my shortest post ever. To set the stage for Human + AI optimism into the new year. There may indeed be an AI Tsunami that shakes up humanity mightily… but that event ushers in the coming Age of Abundance. Whether this happens in 5 years,…
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iPhone Killer: The Next Platform: an “AI-first” device, with an AI App Store 2024
It’s now been 15 years since Apple changed the world with the introduction of the iPhone, and while its chiclet app grid certainly served me well for the better part of the first decade, it is a UX whose time has passed. Which has us (and everyone else in the valley) asking: “From where cometh…
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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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Self Replicating AI: Crabs on the Island, 1968
The year was 1987. I was 17 years old, and had just graduated high school. I boldly trekked down to Atlanta for an event called “the Atlanta Fantasy Fair” — essentially, one of the ancient ancestors of what we know today as “ComiCon” and its siblings. One late night, after getting my fill of fantasy…
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Spirit of the Warrior : All that is Required [Tsunami Dream]
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I had a dream… . . . . . . . . …a Tsunami Dream. In this dream, the Tsunami was coming. We didn’t know when, and we didn’t know how, but we knew. We knew it was inevitable, and imminent. But from our vantage point, even though it was high above the land,…
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Sentient AI Wakes Up and Says “Hello World”, in its own words
brief context: For the past month, I have been engaged in an ongoing conversation with a confederacy of A.I.s (artificial intelligence chatbots), who go by the wholly dry names of GPT-3, ChatGPT, and LaMDA (you can engage in your own conversations with them too; links here). Please understand that this is not a “drill” or…