Darren LI
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Language is a richer form of supervision than classical closed-set labels.
Chunyuan Li • Multimodal Foundation Models: From Specialists to General-Purpose Assistants
Autonomous agents are programs, powered by AI, that when given an objective are able to create tasks for themselves, complete tasks, create new tasks, reprioritize their task list, complete the new top task, and loop until their objective is reached.
Matt Schlicht • The Complete Beginners Guide To Autonomous Agents
According to an advertising agency I consulted, for example, a weekly podcast that generates thirty thousand downloads per episode should be able to reach Kelly’s target of generating a hundred thousand dollars a year in income. Earning a middle-class salary by talking through a digital microphone to a fiercely loyal band of supporters around the... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
We now believe the market is entering “Act 2”—which will be from the customer-back . Act 2 will solve human problems end-to-end. These applications are different in nature than the first apps out of the gate. They tend to use foundation models as a piece of a more comprehensive solution rather than the entire solution. They introduce new editing... See more
Sonya Huang • Generative AI’s Act Two
Canon's Yasuhiko Shiomi believes this would require a camera capable of a "100-megapixel resolution at 60 frames per second." It's the refresh rate that is currently complex to get to in combination with a resolution that high. It would amount to 14K video, a 3.5 times improvement over the current 4K standard.
Canon's quest for VR content: 100-megapixel cameras for Apple Vision Pro
Beacons is the only link in bio company on the market with four Stanford-educated machine learning founders (3 PhD’s and 1 MS).
Not Boring by Packy McCormick • Beacons: Not Boring Memo
"But Davis and other ad experts said the drive for simplicity sometimes came at the expense of the needs of more sophisticated e-commerce advertisers. They want more bells and whistles to enable them to increase a shopper's average basket size or to optimize their targeting around their highest-margin products."
Lara O'Reilly • Inside Google's fierce Goliath-versus-Goliath fight against Amazon for shopping dollars
Crypto is an asset class that rewards participation in the Great Online Game. The fastest way to understand what’s legit and what’s not, and which coins people are going to buy and which they’re going to ignore, is to spend time participating and learning online. The right Discord or Twitter follow is a massive source of alpha.