Bernt Ivar Olsen

North-Norwegian, human-centered software researcher and -designer. Employee of Microsoft, tweets are personal opinions and thoughts.

[Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton]

I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works.
https://t.co/frLBndsW7g

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

One of the features I've mosted wanted in AI Studio for a long time! Just paste a YouTube link into the command line and ask Gemini 2.0 questions about it - it's multimodal understanding is kind of mindblowing. Try it here: https://t.co/3ioM7tihCG

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

It's called visual hierarchy

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The scientific method isn't only for scientists. It can help us all learn faster.

Study of 759 startups: teaching scientific thinking boosts revenue. Founders become quicker to abandon bad ideas.

A key to good judgment is treating plans as hypotheses and choices as experiments.

[Zack Witten @zswitten]

On one end of the line: ELIZA, the psychotherapist from the 60s. First chatbot to make people believe it was human. Rulebound, scripted, deterministic. Still around on the web.

On the other end of the line: yr favorite LLM.

How will they react? Will they know?

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Hiding likes was a good move by @elonmusk. I "like" posts not necessarily to say that I agree, but to say that I value the post, even if I disagree. Other people use the like-option differently. This inevitably leads to misunderstandings. I am glad it's no longer possible.

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Majestic.

#UCL

[Bernt Ivar Olsen @bernt_ivar]

A good guide to using AI for leisure and work. This is also a good and comprehensible state of the current toolset at the end of 2023

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

There’s a lot of Large Language Models out there, from ChatGPT to Bard to Grok. It can seem confusing. But for most people the choice of AI is pretty simple.

I wrote my latest updated guide to which AI to use. At least until everything changes again! https://t.co/4rQy7CGwE7

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

What makes homo sapiens better than other species? A human couldn’t beat a chimpanzee in a boxing match. Cooperating in large numbers is the secret to our success.

From a recent conversation with @lexfridman, July 2023.
Full video: https://t.co/WJ3TX52TFb

#human #elonmusk

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Given that AI uses are discovered at the level of individual employees, corporate culture will be key

Cooperative cultures lead employees to share what they learn. Competitive cultures lead people to leak information to competitors, in hope of better roles & status if they leave

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Controlled experiment on how pay affects innovation: Folks with "an incentive scheme that tolerates early failure and rewards long-term success explore more and are more likely to discover a novel business strategy than subjects under fixed-wage or standard pay-for performance."

[Bernt Ivar Olsen @bernt_ivar]

@ChampionsLeague PenaltyMuch 🤔

[Bernt Ivar Olsen @bernt_ivar]

@stats_feed Has anyone done correlation analysis with e.g. Life expectancy - considering all those anti oxidants? 🧐

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Of course climate change will not cause human extinction. If sufficiently many people die, that'll much reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It's a self-regulating system, isn't that nice?

[Bernt Ivar Olsen @bernt_ivar]

Flott eksempel på konstruktiv og miljø-positiv bruk av kunstig intelligens (AI) ved å gjenkjenne og sile ut pukkellaks ved hjelp av bildegjenkjenning slik at de ikke får gyte i norske elver https://t.co/9FviAPoDCD #artificalintelligence

[Jeff Teper @jeffteper]

Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever

https://t.co/o34OYVXGgL

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

With Microsoft 365 Copilot, we're giving people more agency and making technology more accessible with advanced AI and the most universal user interface: natural language. https://t.co/SNNMWcecgx

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Visualization of the seasons and the months of light and darkness at the North Pole

[source: https://t.co/SiX5gB8S5S]

[Bernt Ivar Olsen @bernt_ivar]

Iskrystall-torner i vintersol @ UiT Norges arktiske universitet https://t.co/UZFiNrOgih

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Artemis I: Uncrewed flight test. ✅
Artemis II: Astronauts fly around the Moon.
Artemis III: Astronauts land on the Moon.

With #Artemis I successfully completed, we are working to send humanity to the lunar South Pole region for the first time. For more: https://t.co/5L1Y6qQWwT