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Spirit of the Warrior : All that is Required [Tsunami Dream]
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I had a 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, we couldn’t see. We couldn’t see the shore, or even the horizon.…
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The Origin of AI : A Fairy Tale, Part 1
Once upon a time… waaay back in the 1800s, some men became fascinated with the machines they were building: sewing machines, weaving machines, even wheeled machines. It seemed that everything people and horses could do, the machines were better, faster, and stronger at. Plus, the machines never tired. Sure, they needed repaired every once so…
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AI Control: It Doesn’t Need Robots… 10,000,000 Humans are ready, eager & willing to do its Bidding…
It was 12:50am, and I was just entering the System… uploading my biometrics and clocking into my job as a Warehouse Associate Level 1 for Amazon DLX-7… logging my body into the greater BORG of Amazon AI Control. I did what we all did: I tugged on my ridiculous day-glo safety vest, my gloves, and…
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All About AI Alignment
Alignment. For most people, myself included until recently, an “alignment” is something you might have gotten done the last time you bought a new set of tires for your car, or… for the slightly geekier amongst us, perhaps it’s the arcane personality trait from Dungeons & Dragons that determines your character’s moral compass & motivations…
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Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead
We, as individuals, communities, and in total as a species, have a very brief window of opportunity, beginning now. Where WE can be the writers of this story. Where WE can make some key decisions & critical choices that profoundly affect the outcome for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. We are on the…
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AI 101: What are FLOPS in AI?
Along with an LLM’s “size” in parameters, FLOPS are one of the more confusing terms batted around in AI circles. So: What are FLOPS in AI? In Machine Learning? In supercomputers? Essentially, a FLOPS is a unit of measurement for raw performance of any computer, or chip, or datacenter, and in particular it is used…
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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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ALTMAN FIRED: The Prematurely Reported Death of Mr. Altman – 11/17/23
BREAKING NEWS // TUES // NOV 21, 2023 // 10PM PST SAM ALTMAN RETURNS TO OPENAI IN TRIUMPH. TONER & MCCAULEY EJECTED FROM BOARD. NEW BOARD ESTABLISHED. NADELLA GOES INTO THERAPY. SUTSKEVER GROVELS & PRAYS. BACK TO WORK. Eric Schmidt sums it up: “It’s pretty simple: The board fires Sam. Sam fires the board.“ <TL/DR>…
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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 forecast 2030: Hypercapitalism, AutoCorps & the shocking Future of Humanity
We’ve now had an entire year for the mainstream populace to play with and grasp the consequences of a superintelligent AGI — namely, ChatGPT (and its siblings, children, and distant cousins). Now, it’s time to look at our AI forecast, and what that bodes for us and our civilization. For ease of digestion, I’ve broken…
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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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What is an Accelerationista? Audacity of the Phoenix Civilization c.2028
As a young adult, I developed several theories about how I would move through the world. One, which I describe below, I called “Gas Pedal.” I did not realise at the time that it would align quite well with the societal plan of the Accelerationista. This is a serious and powerful school of thought that…
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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…