Eli Pugh

hoosier, math nerd, stanny u, triathlete

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers.

My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper characters into hex digits. Software progress has made that work as irrelevant as chariot wheel maintenance.

Building power tools is central to all the progress in computers.

Game engines have radically expanded the range of people involved in game dev, even as they deemphasized the importance of much of my beloved system engineering.

AI tools will allow the best to reach even greater heights, while enabling smaller teams to accomplish more, and bring in some completely new creator demographics.

Yes, we will get to a world where you can get an interactive game (or novel, or movie) out of a prompt, but there will be far better exemplars of the medium still created by dedicated teams of passionate developers.

The world will be vastly wealthier in terms of the content available at any given cost.

Will there be more or less game developer jobs? That is an open question. It could go the way of farming, where labor saving technology allow a tiny fraction of the previous workforce to satisfy everyone, or it could be like social media, where creative entrepreneurship has flourished at many different scales. Regardless, “don’t use power tools because they take people’s jobs” is not a winning strategy.

[Eli @elipughresearch]

We're unveiling Sonic 2.0 🦔

Unhinged voice-cloning, latency, transcript following ... it's SOTA in every way

Really enjoyed training these models with incredibly fun, talented people. An enormous amount of work went into Sonic 2, really proud of the team 🫶

Oh, also, $64m 🙀

[Cartesia @cartesia]

Today, we’re excited to release the first step in our mission to build real time multimodal intelligence for every device: Sonic, a blazing fast  (🚀 135ms model latency), lifelike generative voice model and API.

Read https://t.co/kmqpKoR1NA and try Sonic https://t.co/rMnegk14Jl

[Eli @elipughresearch]

Super proud to release what we've been working on the last few months to the world! 🐣

Go try it!! First release is a freaking fast and very natural-sounding TTS API with a few nice bells and whistles. Can't wait to see what people build with this. 😼

[Anthony Williams @kid_of_LAW]

Let Sepp Kuss chase the GC you cowards!

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

@NoContextBrits @AliBrownleetri @jonny_brownlee are these in your Aldi kit package?

[Aaron Chalfin @AaronChalfin]

How admissions to top universities in the US really works as revealed by a simple comparison between one of NYC's top public high schools (Stuyvesant HS) and one of NYC's top private high schools (Horace Mann School). A short thread with some basic descriptive statistics 👇👇

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

This is wild. The CEO of Rivian, the electric truck maker, on the record:

- the future of urban mobility and deliveries is e-bikes
- fully autonomous cars are unlikely/impossible
- the battery supply shortage will slow the electric car transition https://t.co/zaURQvT7VI

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

@mindykaling Pippali has fantastic food and drinks both!!!

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

@pawgmental yes :)

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

- Cars create traffic, not bikes.
- Hate taxes? They subsidize oil, pay for road maintenance & plowing, bail out car companies, etc.
- Cars don’t require a locker room but do require road & parking space.
- Cars cause catastrophic warming.
- Bikes are CHEAP and FUN
#biketowork

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

11 11 11 11 😵

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

@charlie4allen I still have this saved on my phone from a looonng time ago and look back on it from time to time. True art

[Wesley Meyer @wesxc]

In case you missed it

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

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[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

@GunnShow17 @GHO_9705 https://t.co/9F8JW1wM4G

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

@AnavSood @GunnShow17 The chances are low but never zero

[Eli Pugh @elipughtri]

Me and a random note on my phone