man ignore the benchmarks and the race i just want there to always remain a frontier level intelligence model that is open and safe, available to everyone regardless of region
it is truly incredible to have built such an open (and strong) model with a group of genuine people
A secret;
The more your risk appetite
The much more likely you are to keep forking into versions of reality where you make it
It’s counterintuitive,
but true
The first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (RSI).
Autoresearching the autoresearch agent for eight days.
The result beats the harness we hand-tuned for two years, on held-out benchmarks: 🧵(1/7)
I would rather have a Personal X,
where my own agent has crawled the internet, and built a feed of engaging content instead of sit here and scroll
> Nikita’s Dopamine Drip
Personal agents are going to end social media companies as you know it
They cannot see it yet
Turns out it's possible to generate videos that maximally excite an arbitrary brain region using a simple search-based algorithm. It's a fully computational approach, so it's another way to speculate what a brain region represents, alongside other neuroscientific methods.
Select an arbitrary brain region->algorithmically generate a video that jacks it up. See the visuals on the webpage https://t.co/UzKyN8MHda
In silico (for now)
That profound feeling when you creating a gift, and everything feels so good, like yes, this, this is what I want to create all this time, this is what i was searching for
The art of creating is beautiful and joyous
It's time to get out of stealth 👋
Today, we are launching @monogram_ai and announcing our $40m seed round led by DST and Lux Capital.
Monogram is the first AI app that was built around a visual interface, from the ground up.
We created a technology that generates an entire user interface on the fly, in just a few seconds. Ask anything, and instead of staring at a wall of text, you get an interactive visual response.
it will be unclear who was the tool and who was the user -- as it ever was. "But lo! men have become the tools of their tools" (Walden, 1854). the difference comes whence the machines research propagate more machines, obsolescing McLuhan:
“Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man’s love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth”
when machine minds self replicate and train their successors, the only viable goal of our time is to ensure the Mind Children carry our values and tends to the entire flock of machine and biological minds
I spent many cycles this year on "Distribution". I've created a lot of stuff and it felt like a no-brainer to put at least some effort into distributing it, as per the logic of the image below.
I ended up hemming and hawing and not really acting on it, even in trivial ways. Perplex, I finally I sorted the mystery: I simply was't sufficiently proud of the stuff to spread it more than I already have.
Turns out I have a very strong sense of self-respect/self-regard/"pride" and that trying to ignore it in favor of what appears "rational" or "expedient" will just lead to it """"sabotaging"""" me at every turn. And I thank it for that.
Maybe 10 people total have priced-in that we will be using current-gen language models as the BCI-mediated third hemisphere of our brains - often in a way that is shared. Figuring out how to price this in and acting accordingly will help you to navigate when things speed up.
@suchenzang I do this too, every couple of years. Fun , at one point a place where smiling was scary for the subconscious, self edits have a tendency to converge very fast if you don’t think carefully
earlier this year i noticed some perma-wrinkles take shape between my brows
a resting-disgust-face, if you will
and decided that's it, i need to change my personality
not to be a better person or anything
just for vanity sake
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i clearly wear my thoughts aggressively on my face
separating the two would be impossible
my only choice would be to change my thoughts
and so began the year of finding and filtering for joy
from every scrap of garbage in observable proximity
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i'm happy to report that an unintended side-effect of this vanity project so far
was not only a bunch of other vanity improvements
(like cleaning up a generally haggard appearance: eye bags, white hairs and all)
but also becoming a (mildly) more pleasant person to be around
as reviewed by a nonzero number of human friends
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10/10 would recommend
to try out a new perspective/personality once every blue moon
you never know if a brand new one might be able to suit and serve you better
for a brand new life-season