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The Rise and Fall of SF : A Modern Dystopia c.2023
I’ve lived in SF several times (1998, 2009, 2012, 2016), under several types of economic circumstances (millionaire, homeless, couch-surfing…), and with several “moods” (ecstatic!, curious, dark…) across the decades. And in all that time, I’ve never seen anything even remotely like what I’ve witnessed in the past year: lets just call it what it is:…
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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 and DNA 2030 : The Final Frontier
So, I had this vision of how AI and DNA would interact, many many years ago. I never actually published, so this is a first. Lets explore. When we have a broad swath of the human population sequenced, and we have superpowerful pattern-recognition AIs that can eat Big Data (petabytes? exabytes?) for breakfast, AND we…
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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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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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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>…
