📺 Secret Sauce for your newsfeeds Dec23-1
📺 Secret Sauce for your newsfeeds Dec23-1
👩💻 Generative AI is changing the way we use computers (12 mins)
🏎️ A garage tour of the “most eccentric” collector in the world (36 mins)
🎼 How easy it is to make music with AI (2 mins)
🏋️♀️ Gym rats will love this one. Here’s 8 mins of an elite power lifter pranking gym bros.
🔋 Electric motors for the win. This is just embarrassing. (1 min)
🏀 He can’t jump, can’t run, and he’s totally unstoppable. (21 mins)
🏢 There are 8 buildings around the country that the NSA uses to spy on the internet. (14 mins)
🤖 This is the guy that ousted Sam Altman from OpenAi and then recanted.
🙈 Crimes against humanity have never looked so beautiful. Now you can rob liquor stores, bang hookers, and curb stomp innocent people much more realistically than GTA 5. (1 min)
🎥 Now you can make a deep fake video of your friend doing anything in high definition from just a photo.
🎿 Ski season is almost here. Here’s 11 mins of people doing crazy things on skis.
For People Who Read:
Unpacking the hype around OpenAI’s rumored new Q* model
Q* scared a lot of people at OpenAI who know a lot more about artificial intelligence than we do. It’s the first large language model that performs well at logical decision making and math. We make fun of these early neural networks because they suck at math, but so do humans. What’s 487 * 23? Your guess probably isn’t that much better than ChatGPT’s.
💣 Is Bin Laden Really Going Viral With the Kids?
This story illustrates how influencers will do anything for more views. 💰
🌏 New Catalyst Completely Breaks Down Durable Plastic Pollution in Minutes
Recycled Nylon-6 is worth more in the marketplace than virgin plastic. Nylon-6 makes up 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
The Internet will eventually destroy whatever economy existed before it.
Today, half of U.S. adults get news at least sometimes from social media
There’s no editors on social media. There’s no fact checkers. Soon, the only thing we’ll know is whatever our recommendation algorithms tell us.
Artificial intelligence is better than human intelligence at virtually every task already. And in the next 3-5 years, those ai will be getting humanoid bodies.
Bill Gates: AI is about to completely change how you use computers
SwissRe: First-of-its-kind study on autonomous vehicles' safety
“The results of the research are exciting both for the insurance industry and the safety community alike: in over 3.8 million miles driven without a human being behind the steering wheel in rider-only mode, the Waymo Driver (Waymo’s fully autonomous driving technology) incurred zero bodily injury claims in comparison with the human driver baseline of 1.11 claims per million miles. The Waymo Driver also significantly reduced property damage claims to 0.78 claims per million miles in comparison with the human driver baseline of 3.26 claims per million miles.”
Meta: Introducing Emu Video and Emu Edit, our latest generative AI research milestones
Fake news has just released a new toolkit to make fake videos. Yay. 😞
The Decision That Could End Voting Rights
A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it.
ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything (or look like they can), so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do we unbundle them back into single-purpose software? What are the products?
