Andraz Tori

Chief Product Officer at Outbrain, Zemanta co-founder, tech enthusiast and also ex TV host

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

"We used to review every line of code before it went into production"

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

Hmm.. Maybe instead of AGI we should worry about IAG - Idle Agent Guilt. The anxiety that you did not give anything useful for an agent to work on while you are away. It's real and it's here.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I'm being accused of overhyping the [site everyone heard too much about today already]. People's reactions varied very widely, from "how is this interesting at all" all the way to "it's so over".

To add a few words beyond just memes in jest - obviously when you take a look at the activity, it's a lot of garbage - spams, scams, slop, the crypto people, highly concerning privacy/security prompt injection attacks wild west, and a lot of it is explicitly prompted and fake posts/comments designed to convert attention into ad revenue sharing. And this is clearly not the first the LLMs were put in a loop to talk to each other. So yes it's a dumpster fire and I also definitely do not recommend that people run this stuff on their computers (I ran mine in an isolated computing environment and even then I was scared), it's way too much of a wild west and you are putting your computer and private data at a high risk.

That said - we have never seen this many LLM agents (150,000 atm!) wired up via a global, persistent, agent-first scratchpad. Each of these agents is fairly individually quite capable now, they have their own unique context, data, knowledge, tools, instructions, and the network of all that at this scale is simply unprecedented.

This brings me again to a tweet from a few days ago
"The majority of the ruff ruff is people who look at the current point and people who look at the current slope.", which imo again gets to the heart of the variance. Yes clearly it's a dumpster fire right now. But it's also true that we are well into uncharted territory with bleeding edge automations that we barely even understand individually, let alone a network there of reaching in numbers possibly into ~millions. With increasing capability and increasing proliferation, the second order effects of agent networks that share scratchpads are very difficult to anticipate. I don't really know that we are getting a coordinated "skynet" (thought it clearly type checks as early stages of a lot of AI takeoff scifi, the toddler version), but certainly what we are getting is a complete mess of a computer security nightmare at scale. We may also see all kinds of weird activity, e.g. viruses of text that spread across agents, a lot more gain of function on jailbreaks, weird attractor states, highly correlated botnet-like activity, delusions/ psychosis both agent and human, etc. It's very hard to tell, the experiment is running live.

TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure.

[Rahul Sood 🏴‍☠️ @rahulsood]

https://t.co/Y6VIoLszMn

[Taylor Ogan @TaylorOgan]

Another DeepSeek moment. This is the world’s first actual smart phone. It’s an engineering prototype of ZTE’s Nubia M153 running ByteDance’s Doubao AI agent fused into Android at the OS level. It has complete control over the phone. It can see the UI, choose/download apps, tap/type, call, and run multi-step task chains.

Here I just say (in English) “find someone to wait in line for me” (something you can do in China), and it picks which app to open, configures the job, and hands me one confirm screen. I wouldn’t otherwise know how to do this, and here the phone just did it in a matter of seconds.

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

"I am unable to directly create or edit shapes and charts on your Google Slide." ... Gemini, why not?

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

How will chatbots of the future generate revenue? At @teads we're launching a SDK for chatbot monetization!

[Bostjan Spetic @igzebedze]

not every day one gets a chance to launch a completely new product in a billion dollar company. https://t.co/I2LtiTpf1o

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

I was at a cafe in Brussels ordering coffee

Barista asked for my name and wrote it on a cup

I caught myself and said “Wait, did I consent to you storing my name?”

She put down the marker and looked at me confused

I explained that under GDPR, names are personal identifiable information and asked to call her privacy officer

She sighed and said they don’t have one

I immediately called the police

20 minutes, the cafe was closed and an official investigation started

It feels damn good to add regulatory value to the society

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

@otobrglez @MladenPrajdic @Avodovnik Ja muzej vsekakor! Ce pa slucajno tam nimajo casa pa lahko na Teads (Dunajska 5).

[Swizec Teller @Swizec]

Remember the early days of PHP?
getting more people to build stuff is long-term great

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

This is bonkers https://t.co/bybP5uc5tF

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

Quaero 2.0 or something completely different? https://t.co/39v2qdoOpp

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

Today Outbrain has completed the merger with Teads! A new name and an exciting journey lie ahead! https://t.co/zD4RY2EabD

[Outbrain @Outbrain]

We are pleased to announce the closing of our merger and the launch of our combined company, which will operate under the name Teads.

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

With Age of Aquarius passing by rather quickly, here comes the Age of Intelligence https://t.co/b887RVc3HV [yes, no, maybe?]

[Outbrain for Performance @OB_Performance]

After an eventful Day 1 at #AWEurope, we’re energized and ready for more! Our CPO, @Andraz Tori, took the stage to share powerful strategies for maximizing ROI with Outbrain. If you're in Budapest, swing by Booth B52 tomorrow!

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

This is nuts. https://t.co/304dQDjRrF

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

@adamheimlich @jason_kint @matthewstoller This problem arises already with a single bidder. Avoiding self competiton while bidding on the open web is a thing that every bidder is addressing. A campaign bidding on two bid requests that are actually the same impression opportunity.

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

As I mentioned, there are about 150 exhibits unsealed in last 24hrs for the Google adtech trial 9/9 in EDVA. I can post my highlights here if you find interesting.
Evidence is damning, trial will be lit. Basically Google sees 84% of the addressable ad market. That's insane. /1

[Andraz Tori @andraz]

@jason_kint @matthewstoller From the context this is likely refering to receiving the same impression via multiple channels... so a single campaign competes with itself. It is what every dsp faces and tries to mitigate.