Carl Betzler

PM building AI platform @ Nuro. Writing about tech, autonomy, and travel.

[Delia Lazarescu @tech__unicorn]

everyone's terrified of AI taking their job/girlfriend

nobody's worried about the alternative:

that it's slowly eroding communication, empathy, social skills, critical thinking, pattern recognition, problem solving

sure, we'll automate the economy

but we may as well end up nuking IQ globally lol

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

@BernieSanders This is mostly terrible (starting with the subjective definition of artificial suberintelligence), but there are some decent pieces too! A federal agency on AI is a good idea!

Generally it's disappointing that the only govt official trying to lead on AI is an 84-year old man.

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

Better title: "Human drives into oncoming traffic"

[ABC News @ABC]

Dashcam footage captured the moment a Waymo driverless vehicle collided with another car in Santa Clara County, California on August 23.

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

The days of blurry hands and legless pedestrians in simulation are over. It's going to be crazy to see what this level of precision will do for robotic task training.

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

I'm so excited that our @theworldlabs team has achieved a major milestone today! Introducing Atlas - a first of its kind multimodal world model trained from scratch! 🚀

Atlas is capable of generating frames with pixel-perfect camera control, reconstructing large scenes from as few as one single input image, simulating space-time by reframing videos, natively outputting 3D spaces from one or more input images, composing multiple posed images into a consistent 3d world, and more! This is the best camera conditioned world model ever, opening doors to many possible use cases from VFX to robotics. I'm so so so proud of our team!♥️

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

Last time I tweeted: the metaverse was the future, cartoon apes were worth six figures, and a joke currency had a $90B market cap.

Giving this Twitter (X?) thing another shot after 5 years away.

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

@tapairportugal Sent via private message. Thanks!

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

Thank you @MtJoyBand. I didn’t realize how much I needed that. First concert since March 2020. So incredible.

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

It also depends on your phone. If you have anything earlier than an iPhone 12 you aren’t on 5G even if your carrier says you are.

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

@profgalloway @karaswisher one piece that was missing from your discussion on 5G is that the marketing may be diluting the brand. Most phones now show when you are connected to “5GE”, which is identical to 4G LTE and could be causing your listener’s confusion.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

Donald Trump deserves to lose this election, and to lose it by more than he will. He has governed cruelly, and he has governed poorly.

Our disagreements are real, but there should be basic moral standards and professional expectations for our leaders, and he is beneath them.

[Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford]

Vote for the party that believes in your right to vote.

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

The day has finally come when taxis offer a better UX at LAX than @Uber or @lyft. No wait, no hassle, competitive price.

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

@nmccurley1 Haha fair, the regular season NFL overtime rules are extremely stupid. I wouldn’t trade the playoff NHL overtime rules for anything, but it’s not really practical to have them play indefinitely during the regular season

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

@nmccurley1 NFL and NHL both also have different overtime rules in the playoffs!

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

This was Biden last October.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

That Kamala Harris was the “safe pick” shows how much American politics has changed.

A few years back, a Black, Indian American woman with one of the most liberal voting records in the Senate wouldn’t have been priced in by pundits as the safe choice. https://t.co/Rze54LnUUw

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

For anyone worried about Kamala’s progressive bona fides: she has consistently been one of the most liberal senators. https://t.co/s2SaGtCw9y

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

I backed @KamalaHarris in the primary so this goes without saying, but... I’M SO EXCITED FOR HER TO BE THE NEXT VP.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Being in Congress for 42 years...sounds pretty anticompetitive to me!

[Carl Betzler @C_Betzler]

@JoeBiden Please don’t make this election about his tax returns - that’s what he wants. Make it about the total disaster of a first term.