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We build AI to empower people, including journalists. Our position on the @nytimes lawsuit: • Training is fair use, but we provide an opt-out • "Regurgitation" is a rare bug we're driving to zero • The New York Times is not telling the full story https://t.co/S6fSaDsfKb

Figure-01 has learned to make coffee ☕️ Our AI learned this after watching humans make coffee This is end-to-end AI: our neural networks are taking video in, trajectories out Join us to train our robot fleet: https://t.co/egQy3iz3Ky https://t.co/Y0ksEoHZsW

Ok perfect https://t.co/QlK4LYH38Z

Tom Scott retired his legendary YouTube channel after 10 years. A favourite lesson: For encryption, Cloudflare uses a camera to videotape a wall of Lava Lamps. Then turns footage into a “stream of random unpredictable bytes” to make encryption keys for traffic on its network. https://t.co/dcjrKfmQEa

Introducing 𝐌𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐇𝐀🏄 -- Hardware! A low-cost, open-source, mobile manipulator. One of the most high-effort projects in my past 5yrs! Not possible without co-lead @zipengfu and @chelseabfinn. At the end, what's better than cooking yourself a meal with the 🤖🧑‍🍳 https://t.co/iNBIY1tkcB

I used Midjourney v6 to create photorealistic interpretations of famous artworks. The results are lovely. 1. “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer https://t.co/EwWBs1j9ia

In my years on Twitter, I’ve summarized hundreds of useful concepts into tweet form. Here are the best concepts to help you navigate 2024, as chosen by the editors at @UnHerd Thread:

When I realized I didn’t have to accomplish great things or save the world, but just live a simple life of love, that’s when I was ready to get married and have children It makes my true life’s mission super easy, but any other mission almost impossible

Earlier this year I left my tech role in industry to focus full time on philosophy--to think about technology, the good life, and the good society I had certainly been taking actions to pursue a better society, but I didn't know the first thing about it. Cocktail party…

Starship will make life as we know it multiplanetary for the first time in Earth’s ~4.5 billion year existence https://t.co/G7lJo3gckz

Interesting point/counterpoint. @leecronin @_OliverStanley https://t.co/YI5itNBklS https://t.co/ovRkivfDNV

Max Bennet's five breakthroughs of brain evolution outlined in the book "A Brief History of Intelligence" 1. Steering (Taxis Navigation) - The first brains evolved to enable steering and navigation of organisms with bilateral symmetry - Simple algorithm to move towards positive…

A lot of people have a hard time separating body type from style. This outfit would not look good on anyone. He needs a jacket; the sweater would look better if it was textured; blue chinos are hard to wear. This same outfit would look bad on a skinny or athletic person. 🧵 https://t.co/XkQCxHW8j8

It's been about 9+ years. Mungkin klo waktu itu ga diminta mertua stop, saya terus lanjut. https://t.co/B8x0K92g6W

OpenLetter to Sam Altman Dear @sama Merry Christmas. How’s the eggnog ? I want to bring your attention to the fact that Microsoft defacto owns OpenAI now, and either you break out of that control structure entirely, or you become Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI in 2…

This is how to write your New Year’s resolutions btw https://t.co/hfyzhDsLME

We caught you. You're supposed to be on vacation. But there you are, Optimizing. Just like you do at work. How do you efficiently see everyone? What are the perfect gifts? How do you maximize the number of memorable moments? Can you hit level 100 in Diablo 4 before vacation is…

People are forgetting the reason you can get away with crazy amounts of plagiarism in the humanities / soft sciences is not just because of favouritism + nepotism but also because **no one reads most of these papers** and everybody knows this and still they keep producing them

big things happening at home. our cat is pregnant and the whole family is certain that our neighbour's cat got her pregnant. Mom thinks that we should give the neighbour half of how many ever kittens she births, dad thinks that we should ask said neighbour to pay child support

Grigori Perelman on why he declined the Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Institute prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture. https://t.co/RVb5eBqwpi

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They are it’s just not evenly distributed. The top 1% of kids are far stronger than the top 1% of kids 40 years ago. https://t.co/bZn3eyk5Z3

But AI can't be truly creativ -- A professor used AI to write a science fiction novel that won a national competition. https://t.co/gQe3msHH3G

24 hours of Midjourney V6 The world is never going to be the same again, people will lose their jobs, advertising will be flipped upside down and much more. A mega thread of community gold nuggets 🧵 A thread https://t.co/nOtbOeJmxL

ACT II. A New Computer. 01.30.24 See you in January https://t.co/oxJS8hg3gk

we’ll look back in a few years to the textbox interface for AI model as we did brick phones for calling https://t.co/1vXsL2ynyy

This is quite a paper on AI and scientific research! The authors got GPT-4 to autonomously research, plan, and conduct chemical experiments, including learning how to use lab equipment by reading documentation (most were operated by code, but one task had to be done by humans) https://t.co/d64JNKigeW https://t.co/LjaQvpGKYu

If you’re not *absolutely sure* that school is broken, just look at how we teach math. I saw the problems firsthand 👇

when I grow up I want to be a rational actor with perfect information

Google’s chief scientist, @JeffDean (joined Google 24 years ago), talks about start-up growing pains. https://t.co/NRqVcNKhTr