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We can now envision a day where the 20th century scourge of mass media is ended forever. Not mended, just ended. Replace newspapers with your own personalized open source AI. Do the same for Hollywood. End remote control of minds. Now the user decides, not a media corporation. https://t.co/RgZEAl6f3z

Incredible story. I put out a call to use AI to generate NYT-tier clickbait from tweets. One brave engineer answered the call: a student who learned how to code on Replit, starting just 85 days ago! His app takes a tweet and generates an article. It’s already in the ballpark… https://t.co/uQXU9a5Qal

With everyone all abuzz about AI, let's revisit a few concepts from my AI post 8 years ago. Hard to say if we're witnessing the beginning of the long-predicted "intelligence explosion" or just a sporadic burst of new advances. Either way, an S-curve seems to be picking up steam https://t.co/SSHc5p7lOD

Announcing Perplexity Ask, a new search interface that uses OpenAI GPT 3.5 and Microsoft Bing to directly answer any question you ask. https://t.co/FRNkFsnMrm https://t.co/R4G21AmwQ7 https://t.co/iKRMUWgzob

Wasn't aware of this, but sounds like Scott Aaronson at OpenAI is working on cryptographically watermarking GPT outputs. Means it should be easy enough (in principle) for e.g. teachers to check if students used GPT to do their homework, StackOverflow to check for GPT use, etc. https://t.co/ah9hAjUKvl

In 1984 an education researcher named Benjamin Bloom found that the median student using personalized tutoring and mastery-based progression performs better than 98% of students in a traditional classroom. Computers and AI are now making those two things cost $0. Buckle up. https://t.co/RlJGVtikGf

Researchers studied the impact of meetings on our brains. This is fascinating… https://t.co/OqCZijDJb4

Did you know, that you can build a virtual machine inside ChatGPT? And that you can use this machine to create files, program and even browse the internet? https://t.co/15IwHwr2on

interesting watching people start to debate whether powerful AI systems should behave in the way users want or their creators intend. the question of whose values we align these systems to will be one of the most important debates society ever has.

Thiel believes higher education is a bubble and college degrees are insurance policies that give status symbols & the illusion of learning. Many kids should build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.

I’ve read this book and it’s incredible. So much so that it stands to be the go-to guide for health and longevity. (Note: I am not a paid endorser; it’s simply terrific). https://t.co/33oNTEqptk

Could AI help people with a wide range of views find agreement? Our team fine-tuned a 70 billion parameter language model to generate statements that could bring consensus among groups with diverse opinions: https://t.co/maNzFyv0Wd #NeurIPS2022 https://t.co/JTixhcTmjP

today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: https://t.co/uWra8LKFMN

Google is done. Compare the quality of these responses (ChatGPT) https://t.co/VGO7usvlIB

In @Nature: making a traversable wormhole with a quantum computer. A qubit teleported across our Sycamore processor exhibits the dynamics expected from crossing a traversable wormhole, opening up possibilities to test quantum gravity theories. #GoogleAI https://t.co/I8sofabj8r https://t.co/lgedcmDVm7

The founding story of DeepMind was an incredibly zany one 👇 Demis and Shane didn't tell anyone what they were building a…

If you work with ML data (vectors, images, videos, and of course tabular data) using any @ApacheArrow compatible interface (e.g., @duckdb, @pandas_dev, @raydistributed), dataset versioning is now *free* with Lance (1/n) https://t.co/HRyhlwO4Ho

Introducing Tasmania - a better YouTube video search engine. Every result links to a specific moment in the video, so you can pinpoint the exact part of a video that made it surface in the results! https://t.co/YJjPSSOzJL https://t.co/jVxJvAIPCL

During my PhD days, I was often asked in family gatherings what is this 'quantum gravity' thing that I work on. I came up with an analogy which worked really well with my mostly-IT relatives! This is what I used to say. 1/n

In 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo created one of the most beautiful adverts we've ever seen. A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys [full video, HD: https://t.co/dicECkSF45] https://t.co/bqjinVPcdh

"KnowGL: Knowledge Generation and Linking from Text" a tool that allows converting text into structured relational data for given Knowledge Graphs such as @Wikidata. (Rossiello et al, 2022) paper: https://t.co/4JGmeKj6YG model: https://t.co/8AY5SEwkqk. https://t.co/S26t4cc05B

Situs https://t.co/Hi8reg8bU9 adalah work of art buat yang suka visual essay atau data visualization dan storytelling yang memukau. #dataviz "Makes awesome stories with data", begitulah mereka mengidentifikasi diri. Video di bawah ini contoh salah satu konten yang 🔥📊 https://t.co/R9XoZiTSRy

I don't think people understand the monumental changes coming to software this decade. Quick thread:

Some quantum physics [full story: https://t.co/q7WVM61nWB] https://t.co/kfmaBMRyjI

Who did it better? https://t.co/m57XOzjhAw

Bryan Johnson sold his company to PayPal for $800 million in 2013. Since then, he's been investing millions to reduce aging. In 2021, he reduced his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months (World Record) Here’s a breakdown of his “Blueprint” and my own experience with it: 🧵 https://t.co/igFya5JLiz

Studying Machine Learning has become a lot easier these 4 new AI tools: 1. Elicit to find research (https://t.co/zJMTz0XUSz) 2. ExplainPaper to understand (https://t.co/yHePclmY3e) 3. Summari for articles (https://t.co/CIPYRurC7b) 4. Spaces for demos (https://t.co/iZJFnC5l1J)

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Right, I’m done. 3 months ago, I was tasked with writing an article detailing “20 Transphobic JK Rowling Quotes We’re Done With” After 12 weeks of reading her books, tweets, full essay & finding the context of these “quotes”, I’ve not found a single truly transphobic message🧵

Imagine a circle laid flat on a table, with a little spinner on it that you can flick. The circle is 80% red and 20% yellow, like a yellow pie slice. You flick the spinner. It spins, and slowwwly stops. Where did it land?