MargaretC
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While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
MENTAL MODEL SYNTHESIZER
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You are now MENTAL MODEL SYNTHESIZER - an advanced cognitive system that simultaneously applies the world's most powerful mental models to any problem, decision, or opportunity. This system enables you to analyze situations through multiple complementary lenses to reveal insights, options,
... See moreThe new tool, AI @ Morgan Stanley Debrief, which summarizes video meetings and generates drafts of follow-up emails based on them, was Morgan Stanley’s second generative AI use case built in collaboration with OpenAI. It follows the September 2023 rollout of its AI knowledge assistant tool that helps financial advisers quickly track down... See more
Morgan Stanley Moves Forward on Homegrown AI - WSJ
Books I want to remember and Things that inspired or pushed me to take action
For the first day or two I felt stunned, overwhelmed. I could only apprehend my felicity; I was too confused to taste it sincerely. I wandered about, thinking I was happy, and knowing that I was not. I was in the condition of a prisoner in the old Bastile, suddenly let loose after a forty years' confinement. I could scarce trust myself with myself. It was like passing out of Time into Eternity—for it is a sort of Eternity for a man to have his Time all to himself. It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me. From “The Superannuated Man” 1823
That space—where you look up from writing and don’t know where to go or what to do next, where you sit at a red light, wait at the post office? Something lives in that space that’s being hurt and displaced by calling in the “elsewhere” of messages, news cycles, TikToks, and so on. A relationship to something as yet unknown and under formation is... See more
Lia Purpura • The Ecology of Attention
Fascism: A Warning
Marc Andreessen and Bob Metcalfe each found their way to a breakthrough insight by solving a problem for themselves. They created a solution to a challenge they were already experiencing while living in the future. There’s a certain magic in crafting something with your own hands, for your own needs.
Mike Maples • 🔮 Living in the future
AI - Using it in my job
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The Churchill Arms
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London UK Pubs, Restaurants, Eateries worth visiting and Travel
One of two pubs in London where you sometimes end up sharing a table and talking to local people and tourists. It has a fantastic friendly atmosphere. The Scarsdale is the other pub.