In a stunning rebuke of traditional GOP deregulatory instincts, the Senate voted 99–1 to kill the measure. For the first time in decades, conservative priorities placed local cultural guardianship over the absolute freedom to innovate. That vote showed just how unsteady the old coalitions have become, and how powerful the populist realignment... See more
all of this information, plus your appearance and voice, are used to create a moving, talking version of yourself that sits in a little screen above the phone’s main screen. You summon it by pressing a square button on the side of the phone, then you ask it to do things.
When you hear a phrase like a “7B parameter model,” 7 billion parameters is a measure of the dataset, not the model . You obviously couldn’t train such a model out of, say, a text of 50 words (well you could, but it would be highly informationally degenerate). And if you gave the training protocol 100 internets worth of data, 7B parameters may not... See more
as conversational AI agents become more interactive and personalized, they will surpass human influencers in their ability to shape our decisions without us realizing it.
Pete Warden’s new thing. Crazy-fast translation. Found out about it from Om’s new thing called Crazy Stupid Tech.
Entire categories of startups got killed today by OpenAI at DevDay. It was total carnage for AI startup founders as @sama threw one new feature after the other at them.
Here are some startup categories that won’t exist starting tomorrow:
1. Closed Source LLMs: OpenAI launched GPT-4 Turbo... See more
We’ve regulated many things online, right? The amount of fraud and criminal activity online is minimal. We’ve done a pretty good job with spam. You know, in general, [the problem of] revenge porn has got better, even though that was in a bad place three to five years ago. It’s pretty difficult to find radicalization content or terrorist material... See more
I think he has a very rosy view of the future. Most of this cannot really be backed up, and radicalized content is even increasing. We can see Twitter's struggle to moderate content.