limnephilidae

Always looking for that phase transition....

[limnephilidae @limnephilidae]

https://t.co/LQeuDTn2O3

[limnephilidae @limnephilidae]

@CalltoActivism That Trump is a happy meal short of being Grimace?

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I was laid off from Twitter today. I was the designer in charge of our new rebranding to X.

I learned so much in my 2.5 weeks at the company but I’m excited to see where I land next.

If you’re hiring a self taught, junior designer please DM me. Graphic design is my passion!

[limnephilidae @limnephilidae]

@kelseyhightower Thanks for all of your contributions to Google and the technical community @kelseyhightower and best of luck on living life!

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

So I watched the entire 3-hour long Senate hearing on AI today. I want to make sure I cover as much relevant info as possible in Friday's weekly AI news video. I was really impressed with Sam Altman's responses.

Here's a super-edit I made (I recommend 2x speed)

[limnephilidae @limnephilidae]

Maybe she’s confusing Monty Python’s Meaning of Life with a scientific theory. Definitely going to ask her “can we have your liver now?” if I ever have the unfortunate occasion to meet her, or worse, be in Georgia.

[Scott Kelly @StationCDRKelly]

Tell me more Dr Science.

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

I don't think people realize what a big deal it is that Stanford retrained a LLaMA model, into an instruction-following form, by **cheaply** fine-tuning it on inputs and outputs **from text-davinci-003**.

It means: If you allow any sufficiently wide-ranging access to your AI model, even by paid API, you're giving away your business crown jewels to competitors that can then nearly-clone your model without all the hard work you did to build up your own fine-tuning dataset. If you successfully enforce a restriction against commercializing an imitation trained on your I/O - a legal prospect that's never been tested, at this point - that means the competing checkpoints go up on bittorrent.

I'm not sure I can convey how much this is a brand new idiom of AI as a technology. Let's put it this way:

If you put a lot of work into tweaking the mask of the shoggoth, but then expose your masked shoggoth's API - or possibly just let anyone build up a big-enough database of Qs and As from your shoggoth - then anybody who's brute-forced a *core* *unmasked* shoggoth can gesture to *your* shoggoth and say to *their* shoggoth "look like that one", and poof you no longer have a competitive moat.

It's like the thing where if you let an unscrupulous potential competitor get a glimpse of your factory floor, they'll suddenly start producing a similar good - except that they just need a glimpse of the *inputs and outputs* of your factory. Because the kind of good you're producing is a kind of pseudointelligent gloop that gets sculpted; and it costs money and a simple process to produce the gloop, and separately more money and a complicated process to sculpt the gloop; but the raw gloop has enough pseudointelligence that it can stare at other gloop and imitate it.

In other words: The AI companies that make profits will be ones that either have a competitive moat not based on the capabilities of their model, OR those which don't expose the underlying inputs and outputs of their model to customers, OR can successfully sue any competitor that engages in shoggoth mask cloning.

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

#PrimeMinister @jacindaardern resigned today. I am not surprised nor do I blame her. Her treatment, the pile on, in the last few months has been disgraceful and embarrassing. All the bullies, the misogynists, the aggrieved. She deserved so much better. A great leader. Thanks PM!

[Fei-Fei Li @drfeifei]

Apparently I’m worth $600🤣 Thank you @Jeopardy !

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Announcing a major update to Perplexity Ask: the world’s first conversational search engine! Now, you can read answers with up-to-date sources and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. In other words, you can chat with your search engine!
Try it out at https://t.co/ut3wdOxstL

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

4.2 SBF perpetuated a narrative painting me and other people as the “bad guys”. It was critical in maintaining the fantasy that he was a “hero.” SBF is one of the greatest fraudsters in history, he is also a master manipulator when it comes to media and key opinion leaders.

[Dyylas @DylanDyylas]

Twitter has peaked.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

"This is a recipe that can use a video to help understand how to cut the apple."

You asked, and we answered. https://t.co/HtPjaH5eVR

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

ENOUGH!

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Inflation Rate
🇪🇺: 10.9%
🇩🇪: 10.9%
🇬🇧: 10.1%
🇮🇹: 9.4%
🇪🇸: 9%
🇮🇪: 8.6%
🇺🇸: 8.2%

No. Inflation is not going up in the U.S. because the working class got a $1,400 check 19 months ago. Multinational corporations are jacking up prices worldwide.

[Norman Lear @TheNormanLear]

Today, having recently turned 100, I read Donald Trump’s appalling words about American Jews, and I am nine years old again. The phrase, a horse’s ass, was an everyday expression when I was nine and it occurs to me again now. 3/3

[The New York Times @nytimes]

A California bakery spent a month making a 6-foot recreation of Han Solo frozen in carbonite, made entirely of bread. The mother-and-daughter duo behind the creation called him "Pan Solo." https://t.co/bdm1sc1UQp

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

If we want our democracy to function, we have to show up this election for the Governors, Secretaries of State and the candidates down the ballot who are going to protect voting rights and our electoral process. Because these seats wield a lot of power, and that power matters.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Miche, After 30 years, I’m not sure why you look exactly the same and I don’t. I do know that I won the lottery that day—that I couldn’t have asked for a better life partner. Happy anniversary, sweetheart!

[Rudy Limeback @rudydotca]

#ThenAndNow

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