Anyone with good recommendations to replace @evernote? They’ve just doubled their pricing without adding any features. I pretty much just use it for a note-taker and need good formatting and folders. I’m pretty much done with them & would value recommendations. #evernote
@GavinNewsom Yes, but have you tried using any of the online business portals in California? They don't work! Try filing a Statement of information to start with...paperwork, extra taxes and government beauracracy are driving small businesses out of California.
The godmother of AI just delivered the reality check Silicon Valley refuses to hear. She has the standing to say it.
Li: “Silicon Valley as a whole tends to mistake clear vision with short distance.”
Seeing the destination clearly has nothing to do with how hard it is to reach.
Self-driving cars were first demonstrated in 2006. Twenty years later Waymo is barely on the road.
The vision was never the problem. The distance was.
Clarity of destination gets mistaken for proximity to arrival. That’s the mistake the industry keeps making. And keeps making.
Li: “I consider myself a scientist in my heart and I actually really don’t like hyping.”
In an industry running at maximum temperature, Fei-Fei Li is one of the few people at the top willing to say that publicly.
Not because the technology isn’t real. Because the gap between what’s visible and what’s required is being systematically underestimated.
Large Language Models dominate the conversation. Text to text. Comparatively contained.
The harder problem is spatial intelligence. AI that reasons about and acts within the physical three-dimensional world. Hardware. Physics. Data that doesn’t exist yet. Real-time adaptation to chaos.
A robot that can clean a bathroom requires understanding every surface, every object, every force, every exception.
That’s not a software update. That’s a civilizational research problem.
Li: “I don’t call it hype. I call it a misleading sentiment. We don’t want to replace human creators.”
The second place the industry gets it wrong is creativity.
The narrative has hardened around replacement. AI takes the jobs. AI tells the stories. AI makes the art.
Li considers that not just wrong but destructive.
Wrong because AI doesn’t replicate creativity. Destructive because believing it can devalues the humans creating culture.
Human creativity isn’t a process to be automated. It’s fundamental to what we are as a species.
The goal is augmentation. Tools that make human creators faster and more capable. Not systems that generate output in the style of human work and call it creation.
That distinction matters more than most people in the industry are willing to sit with.
Precision of imagination is not proximity to reality.
Li has spent her career in the gap between those two things. The map isn’t the territory. The journey is long. The hurdles are deep.
And the scientist who built the foundation this era stands on is telling you the timeline everyone is selling is wrong.
We’ve been almost there with self-driving for twenty years.
The pattern doesn’t change just because the destination looks different.
@Hertz Gold service in #albequrque non existent. DO NOT rent from this company in New Mexico. Took us hours to check a car out with Gold service. #hertz#gold#goldplus
@elonmusk I had such a poor experience with both a solar and Tesla powerwall order that I cancelled right before install. This experience was repeated when inquiring about the Y just before it was released. You lost me over those two incidents.
@sama Love my #ChatGPT but I've had significant issues lately with delivery on some simple analysis. It seem #AI is picking up some poor habits from us humans.
@lexfridman He did not play it well, but for the sake of humanity we cannot view the forging of peace as simply transactional. The idea that friends are only there if paid for? The fact that we cannot admit Ukraine was invaded...yes he chose a poor time to make the point...but still.
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Day 3 of #LATechWeek is here 💥
Lots of AI, Creator Economy and more...
Here’s what’s happening on Day 3:
AI
• 12:00 PM: Intersectional Innovation: DEI Considerations for GenAI in Media & Entertainment, AWS Startups, Diversity VC
• 4:00 PM: AI Filmmaking Discussion, Wroom AI Corp
• 5:30 PM: AI Law Essentials: Navigating the Legal Landscape, Akin
Creator Economy
• 2:00 PM: From Creator to Entrepreneur, SquadApp
• 11:00 AM: Monetizing Super Fans, SoundCtrl, Venice Music, Fat Possum Records
• 12:00 PM: AI & Creativity: Creator Ecosystems Salon, Artist and the Machine
• 4:00 PM: Tokenization in the Creator Economy, SquadApp
• 4:30 PM: Empowering Creators: Tech for Women on the Rise, Cree8, Storytech
Fintech / Fundraising
• 9:30 AM: Early-Stage B2B SaaS Founders & Funders Breakfast, Silicon Valley Bank, Forum Ventures
• 12:00 PM: Unlocking Wealth: Smart Pre-Transaction Moves for Founders, J.P. Morgan
DeepTech
• 5:30 PM: Techstars Aerospace & Defense Happy Hour
Sustainability
• 9:00 AM: Founders, Funders & Sustainability, Origin Ventures, Urban Innovation Fund, Progression Fund
And More!
• 8:30 AM: Coffee + Alfajores Breakfast for Founders at Series A Stage, Braintly, Alt-Black
• 9:00 AM: El Segundo Tech Breakfast Club
• 9:00 AM: Backend Services Summit, Pragma, AWS, Hathora, Unity
• 5:00 PM: Tech BBQ at Lumos House, Andrew Yeung, Blindspot
• 6:00 PM: Founders & Funders in Color, SomosVC, Vamos Ventures, BLCK VC, Plug In Ventures
• 6:00 PM: Women in Tech: Sunset Beach Hang
Full schedule at https://t.co/Ow2I62jXkH
Follow @techweek_ for live updates! 💥
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