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No todos los artistas reciben esto al aterrizar.
De hecho casi ninguno. Los Backstreet Boys llegaron a Kazajistán y en pleno aeropuerto pasó algo que no esperaban.
¿cuántas canciones pueden provocar algo así décadas después?
I keep reading this take (below) every few months, presented as if extremely profound, and it is just offensively dumb. It confuses data and information, it ignores the fact that not all information is equally valuable, and it ignores the importance of retention rate.
As a thought experiment: if this were true, if your retina cell count were 10x greater, you'd be "trained on 10x more tokens" and therefore you'd be way smarter. Same if their firing frequency were 10x greater. With 10x more retina cells firing 10x faster you'd be "trained on 100x more tokens"!
Obviously this makes no sense -- the signal coming from these cells is extremely correlated over space and time, so their raw information content (what remains post-compression) is extremely low compared to the "raw bit" encoding. The human visual system actually processes 40 to 50 bits per second after spatial compression. Much, much less if you add temporal compression over a long time horizon.
Latest LLMs get access to approximately 3 to 4 orders of magnitude of information more than a human by age 20 (post compression in both cases). About O(10T) bits vs O(10-100B) bits.
And that's just *raw information* but of course not all information is equal, otherwise we wouldn't be spending tens of billions of dollars on training data annotation and generation. Plus, that's only *information intake* but of course humans have far lower retention than LLMs (by 3-4 OOM). You could write a short essay about how incredibly off the mark this take is.
You can write a self-replicating physical program in just 45 tokens (RNA bases). That's small enough to emerge spontaneously via brute force recombination at scale.
AI is cool and all... but a new paper in @ScienceMagazine kind of figured out the origin of life?
The paper reports the discovery of a simple 45-nucleotide RNA molecule that can perfectly copy itself.
This landslide occurred in Alta, Norway.
It developed on a marine clay substrate that had originally formed in the early Holocene epoch when the area was under sea level. There were no casualties.
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