Scott Allen

I strive to understand and design beautiful and efficient things. Organic stoic.

[Scott Allen @improper]

iRobot, but the reason Will Smith hates robots is because he caught one being teleoperated to peep him taking a shower.

[Dirty Tesla @DirtyTesLa]

@enriquemoreno They told us it was remotely operated

[Scott Allen @improper]

Putin never would have tried any of this if we still had a Bond.

[Scott Allen @improper]

Kids are voracious little creatures, so you hide a treat or two here and there to enjoy later. Then one day you wake up and you’re a grandparent who has hidden candy all over the damn house for no good reason.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Still relevant 81 years later.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

This graphic shows the years 1982-2022 in shades of blue and 2024 in red.

I omitted 2023 to help give context for how fast things have changed.

[Scott Allen @improper]

What a fascinating debate, made more complicated by the fact that the voice at issue is not simply a soundalike-actor, but an AI synthesis.

I think Sam’s gaffs sink him here, but what outcome absent those mistakes?

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

I’m sorry. I’m 100% with OpenAI on this one.

Scarlett Johansson owns her own voice. But she has zero claim on voices that sound “similar”. She turned down the role. She doesn’t get to police them going to a second choice that sounds similar.

Imagine being the woman that voice acted Sky and her voice gets taken down because a famous actor complained.

[Scott Allen @improper]

💵 > 🌎

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

I just imposed a series of tariffs on goods made in China:

25% on steel and aluminum,
50% on semiconductors,
100% on EVs,
And 50% on solar panels.

China is determined to dominate these industries.

I'm determined to ensure America leads the world in them.

[Scott Allen @improper]

@sama I love that y'all didn't shy away from making it sound similar to Scarlett.

[Scott Allen @improper]

This is incredible. I'm getting iPhone-debut-level tingles.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: https://t.co/MYHZB79UqN

Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.

[Scott Allen @improper]

That little comment "if you look at his ChatGPT history, it's all linear equations" is probably the most important line of OpenAI's presentation today.

[Muzeïshen (Unsupervised) @Muzeishen]

PLEASE… Send this to anyone that believe EVs pollute just as much as ICE.
⛽️🚫 ⚡️ ✅

EV = Electric Vehicle
ICE = Internal Combustion Engine
Logic = Simple

[Scott Allen @improper]

This should be interesting.

[NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center @NWSSWPC]

G4 conditions have been observed...

[Scott Allen @improper]

Laws are derivative. Our social fabric and norms are far more important.

[Scott Allen @improper]

People are underestimating the productivity gains that AI will bring. It's not just about surpassing human capabilities; it's about eliminating the inefficiencies inherent in human teamwork and communication.

[Scott Allen @improper]

Software engineers automate jobs, so an AI that automates software engineers will automate exponentially more jobs. One step closer to digital fiefdoms.

[Cognition @cognition]

Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer.

Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork.

Devin is an autonomous agent that solves engineering tasks through the use of its own shell, code editor, and web browser.

When evaluated on the SWE-Bench benchmark, which asks an AI to resolve GitHub issues found in real-world open-source projects, Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues unassisted, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art model performance of 1.96% unassisted and 4.80% assisted.

Check out what Devin can do in the thread below.

[Scott Allen @improper]

One of the sharpest 2024 hurricane season analyses I’ve seen. Worth a watch if you live on the Gulf Coast.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

The Atlantic Ocean is deep into uncharted territory. What's going on and what does this mean for hurricane season? Here's my analysis. It was our discussion in Today's Climate Classroom show. https://t.co/9jJ1bf56X6

[Scott Allen @improper]

https://t.co/JWGzYFDCyB

[Scott Allen @improper]

The problem was that people took 1.5 degrees as an allowance, not a limit.

[Scott Allen @improper]

We humans operate on a prompt-and-response pattern similar to ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini. The difference is that we respond to a constant stream of biological inputs and imperatives. AGI may simply be a scaling problem.

[Scott Allen @improper]

We may be witnessing the end of the Republican Party.