Fon Tran

still chasing

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

Will I see this in my life… I so hope so.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

Wtf …

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Forward this video to friends & family to understand just how evil the government has been

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Forward this video to friends & family to understand just how evil the government has been

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.

Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time.

To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge.

Much appreciated, @US_FDA!

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

@karpathy Super exciting. If AI is at the front end of the teaching and the human being is the teacher behind curating the subjects. Can AI behave differently depending on the person's needs and background? For example, how it will go on differently with a child that has ADHD or not.

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

Alan Garber has very strong values of just the right kind, at a time when they have never been more needed. I hope and expect that he will be successful in restoring strong values of order, free speech and academic excellence at Harvard.

Alan has a great opportunity to emphasize excellence rather than self-esteem, opportunity rather than identity, and truth rather than social justice. It’s a historic opportunity.
https://t.co/KoE8qWeeud

[Dave Lee @heydave7]

I’m extremely bullish on the long-term potential of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot.

• Over-the-air updates for Tesla Optimus will be game-changing, enabling the robot to learn countless new physical skills and abilities with each update.
• Unlike non-physical AI, a humanoid robot can translate knowledge into practical, real-world actions, filling a huge gap in AI's usefulness.
• The challenge lies in making the robot useful enough to justify its cost, but with the rapid advancements in AI, this seems increasingly achievable.
• As the robot's capabilities skyrocket while its price remains stable, demand could grow exponentially.

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

@karpathy announces LLM101n, a course to build AI storytellers using LLMs https://t.co/DUmhyzyl9H

This is so exciting... Feeling like a kid who found another candy shop!

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

One of the mega trends in this YC batch is the wave of consumer AI companies.

Consumer was stuck in the doldrums for years, but AI has brought it back in a big way.

Here are the 21 consumer AI companies that launched today. 🧵

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

@ml4trading still working on it?

[Polong Lin @polonglin]

#Gemini is finally available to developers!

We've just launched new Python notebooks and sample code for Vertex AI Gemini API #GoogleCloud, including:

- Getting Started in Python and cURL
- Multimodal RAG
- Function Calling
- Deploying a Streamlit app
https://t.co/kN7o0tpLUn

[Colaboratory @GoogleColab]

Gemini has launched! We are starting a series of notebooks demonstrating Gemini in Colab, starting with using Sheets and Colab to facilitate creation of a personalized holiday note. Once you have a Gemini API key from Google AI Studio, try it out here: https://t.co/PMAriZOj7L

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

Highly recommended. Clearest explanation I have heard.

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

@gdb @satyanadella @kevin_scott In darkness, true light is found.

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

@sama This is so incredible… A stronger reborn like the Phoenix!

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

This is crazy wild… I am so excited …

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

I’m super excited to have you join as CEO of this new group, Sam, setting a new pace for innovation. We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang Studios, and LinkedIn, and I’m looking forward to having you do the same.

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

@rowancheung Fruit of their amazing leadership

[marissamayer @marissamayer]

But, second and perhaps more importantly, what the @openai mess has really shown is that one of the most tremendous and important technologies/companies of our time is being governed by only 4(!!!) independent directors.

[Fon Tran @fon_tran]

@simonsquibb Be crazy

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Huge day indeed for AI and LLMs, congrats to Meta 👏
This is now the most capable LLM available directly as weights to anyone from researchers to companies.

The models look quite strong, e.g. Table 4 in the paper: MMLU is good to look at, the 70B model is just below GPT-3.5. But HumanEval (bad misnomer) shows coding capability is quite a bit lower (48.1 vs 29.9).