Benjamin Thomas

I help people love their job. Product Management @aSparkFR , currently helping @betclic ship AI products. Proud investor in @lenarvermouth .

[Benjamin Thomas @_Ben_Thomas]

"Après six années passées à Istanbul, Nicolas Brun rentre au bercail pour assembler une carte postale sensorielle, une invitation au voyage aromatique frappée de soleil liquide"
https://t.co/put5QGFIQr

[alex peysakhovich @alex_peys]

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

[spidey @lochan_twt]

The day a blind man sees. The first thing he throws away is the stick that has helped him all his life

[Benjamin Thomas @_Ben_Thomas]

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[Fabien @Fabien_Mikol]

Aurélie Jean : l'IA n'existe pas, ce ne sont que des algorithmes et des calculs, lisez les livres de Luc Julia, lui c'est un vrai scientifique qui ne dit pas n'importe quoi.
Luc Julia : je suis dans le camp des vrais scientifiques, avec Aurélie Jean.
Belle communion d'esprit ☺️

[Benjamin Thomas @_Ben_Thomas]

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[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

If you recognize what's happening here, you're part of a generation that also spent endless hours fine-tuning autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

And if you're not sure what's going on in the video, I honestly envy your youth.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Someone made a Geoguessr clone where you can travel through time 🤯

Cool use case of GPT-Image-2, which can make panoramas.

The creator batch generated them and then used Codex to make an app where you guess the map location + time.

(from u/Proof-Square7528)

[Benjamin Thomas @_Ben_Thomas]

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[Variety @Variety]

Producer David Bernad revealed France wasn’t the only country in the mix for season 4 of “The White Lotus,” but it won the shoot after a perfectly “stereotypical” French waiter encounter in Cannes:

“We went to dinner and we had a really specific experience with a waiter and a maître d’, and it was the stereotype. It was a very funny moment. And I think that it suddenly unlocked what the show is and the dynamics of the show. We literally canceled all the other places we were going. We were like, okay, we’re shooting here."
https://t.co/raND4TGiXv

[Renaud Pila @renaudpila]

Un escarpin abandonné après l’évacuation du dîner des correspondants de la Maison blanche.
Reuters / Elizabeth Frank

[Benjamin Thomas @_Ben_Thomas]

@enraje Adobe Podcast ?

[John Carreyrou @JohnCarreyrou]

The mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, has remained unsolved for 17 years. Not anymore. Read my 18-month investigation to find out who Satoshi really is. https://t.co/fPtaK6YHJC

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

If I’m Anthropic, I’m locking Dario in a room for like a month and not letting him near the internet, a camera, or a microphone. Just let OpenAI look weird by themselves for a while.

Probably, though, he’ll pen a NYT editorial warning that AI will steal your girl.

[Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck]

Season 5 Ep8: Clarifications
Rewind to #TheWire 24th anniversary

Psychological profile of the serial killer.

[Blake Robbins @blakeir]

people are speculating GPT-Image-2 is testing on @arena.

the early examples being posted are pretty mind-boggling.

all three of these images are AI generated.

h/t @sawlygg @synthwavedd

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens.

normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task

caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task

"I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens
caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens

every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved

why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops.

no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words

"result. done. me stop."

50-75% burn reduction

with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Claude watching me write code manually after I hit the daily limit

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

After @Pinterest @Airbnb @NotionHQ @cursor_ai, today it’s @eoghan @intercom publicly sharing that they’re finding it better, cheaper, faster to use and train open models themselves rather than use APIs for many tasks.

And hundreds of other companies are doing the same without sharing.

Ultimately, I believe the majority of AI workflows will be in-house based on open-source (vs API). It took much more time than we anticipated but it’s happening now!

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

In a British study, 11 year olds write free-form aspirational essays. You may think these are kinda useless, or at best amusing. It turns out if you make AI read them, they can predict the children's cognitive test scores pretty well. We're talking more than r = 0.70 well. This is in fact close to the reliability of some of the tests, suggesting the prediction is nearing perfection. Kinda difficult to believe, but certainly the predictions are quite good.

We can thus imagine that in the future (or present), there is no need to do any cognitive tests for employment testing because the employer can simply estimate your IQ from your public posts on X. Or rather, your pre-AI public posts.

[ℬℯ𝓃𝒿𝒾 @WrnrWrites]

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

[FearBuck @FearedBuck]

The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million