Majascule @majascules

@Hunt_Wx Thanks! Why are the models breaking down? Seems to happen with some frequency.

WIRED guest columnists Jaron Lanier and Allison Stanger argue that now, as we embark upon the age of AI, is precisely the right time to revisit the legal underpinnings of what constitutes as free speech on the internet.

House leaders are considering a dangerous backroom deal to secretly reauthorize Section 702, a law the government uses to conduct mass warrantless surveillance of Americans. Congress has only held a secret session 4 times in all of U.S. history. wired.com/story/section-…

Which clown runs the NYT Spelling Bee? The line must be drawn here! @spellingbeefail @Notaspellingbe1

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@YMCAAustinEast what's the situation with the pool?

The City of Austin is in court today over a case I wrote about in 2021. The city’s been trying to build an affordable house on a piece of land it owns in West Austin. A neighbor sued: kut.org/austin/2021-09…

@nickfloats The skin on the chest seems waxy. And the facial attributes seem like they are from two people of diferente ages.

“We don’t often ask ourselves what our response to fatness says about us, but it says so much about our empathy and our character” healthcareinamerica.us/if-youre-right…

An infinite happiness prompt in Midjourney good for endless rerolls. 35 mm film still shot on Kodachrome capturing a group of people gathered together, their faces wreathed in smiles and laughter. Bright and cheerful lighting, with the sun casting a warm glow on the subject's faces. Joyful, convivial energy. A warm and loving moment. --ar 16:9 🧵Selects in thread

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AI powered voice is becoming too realistic. It's about to change the entertainment industry forever. Here are 13 intense voices generated using AI:

@gfodor “shogtongue”? What is that?

@nickfloats Looking at it forensically? Yes. The variance in the cheek reflections. The teeth are all very similar in shade and there is an impressionistic feel to some of the facial features that feels fake. At a glance? It would fly under my radar.

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

If it’s not clear yet, this is what I think will happen soon. Every major tech company except Apple has announced their own LLM. Apple have spent years perfecting their on-device neural engine. Capable of some absolute insane operations. Loads of compute in a small and energy efficient form factor. With M1, M2 & soon M3 the neural engine is even more powerful than their A series mobile chipsets. While we currently need the cloud to run ChatGPT and it’s clunky, I think Apple is going to blow everyone out of the water here. Both on desktop class hardware and mobile. I think Apple will be launching their own secure and private LLM that runs on device (edge compute). And when necessary it offloads more heavy workloads to a cloud based LLM that’s optimized for heavier tasks. So we will initially have some hybrid. Personal, with tight hardware and software integration this AI will be omnipresent. Apple will probably use this to sell a lot of new hardware that they claim is needed to run this. They will make a lot of moneys. For me the LLM’s will form the new protocol level technology upon which most new software will be built. We will have to re-wire our core understanding about what an application is. Single-use apps will be a huge thing. If you need to solve a unique problem, and nobody has ever done software for that because not enough market. With an LLM even a problem with only one user, will be doable, enter your ask, and code gets written, problem gets solved. Runtime ends, app dies. Done. Single use apps are born. It’s hard to predict or try to understand how the world will look just 10 years from today. It will be very different, we have passed the inflection point, the rocket engines have been lit. We’ve taken off. Add to all the above that every single field, category and market will be disrupted at the same time. And not only with text/coding but with any multi-media we have. Images, video & audio. Anything we can come up with can and will be enhanced or disrupted by AI. Once we got more people that will have their AI A-ha moment the rate of change and adoption will continue to increase. This will continue until we have global access and coverage. People will get left behind, and this will be one of the most important things to try to combat. Having a 0% left behind policy. We need to make sure AI benefits all. We’re living through a paradigm shift, and we’re witness a new protocol level technology. We’re seeing it arrive in real-time and most people have no clue about what’s about to happen. I’m not an AI alarmist, I’m an AI gardener, and optimist. We will have time to adapt. Not as long as we had during the Industrial Revolution, but enough time to make sure we have a chance at a positive outcome. We’re moving away from the Information Age into the Age of Intelligence. With unlimited access to intelligence anywhere, anytime. 18th Mars 2023 - Linus Ekenstam

CatGPT

Pretty cool #climate #watersheds apple.news/AaTpNdfOiSYaYV…