John 🦄

Building AI products. Ex. PM @Spotify | MLE @Spotify @BabylonHealth. Post about tech, mainly AI, and personal experiments. Sometimes wisdom from elsewhere

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

@drfeifei Is Marble closer to a renderer than a simulator as it doesn't encode information that determines how the world changes in response to action?

Is the argument it implicitly must understand the world to create a 3d environment? Is that testable other than visual coherence?

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

@luebken https://t.co/UFFOQ0Jwci

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Excellent wisdom from @luebken on designing robust agents. Prompting is never enough to prevent model blunders.

"if the agent has the tool, you need to assume it will eventually use it."

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

What an unbelievable opportunity to peer into the mind of one of the great film makers @bfl_ai. Only wish more of his insights were made available.

Can also see the legendary Michael Ovitz in the room still soaking up knowledge

https://t.co/hW8LH9j0BQ

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What has become possible with LLMs is truely mind-boggling. Even when coding, I can just ask the agent to quickly create a clean webpage to explain its changes. Could even take it further to produce audio / interactive summaries of our last sessions.

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

Claude appears to have become overly cautious. Seeing a lot of phrases like, "I want to be honest here — I spoke with more confidence than I should have"

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

@mike_matas But why is it not red

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@thinkwithmark I really like this new spin on the bookmark. nice idea. Now let me have a conversation with my books on the go and I'm in. I've obsessed over connecting ideas since memex.

[Richard Sutton @RichardSSutton]

The bitter lesson in 26 words:

Don’t be distracted by human knowledge, as AI has been historically.
Instead focus on methods for creating knowledge that scale with computation, like search and learning.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

In the real world, we don't tend to speak in long paragraphs; we point and say: "fix this" or "move that". 💬

By combining gestures with speech, it lets you use natural shorthand to complete tasks.

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

@GoogleDeepMind Slowly we're getting there https://t.co/Z8qVgvZmgK

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

@fal Is it taste?

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

That’s not the same with live action where we can only film what exists. VFX helps expand the canvas but animation still provides a space for infinite imagination to be brought to life.

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

I love animation. For me it’s never been a childish medium. It’s a medium that has allowed for wildly imaginative storytelling free from the restraints of the real world. A precursor to today’s generative models. Whatever the mind could imagine we could draw it.

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@wwwjim Would be keen to understand how you made this

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@WillManidis What stood out to you most?

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@deedydas Would love to know why you did this and more so why you’re sharing it.

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@rronak_ Any recommended papers to read to expand knowledge on 2?

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https://t.co/f7Bh3eOaNu

[John 🦄 @johnlingi]

The way we consume information is going to drastically change. Most will come through AI. And we can simply ask our AI to present an article in a way that is engaging for us. Here is a demo of a BBC article converted into a data chart for easier consumption.