Professor: Half my students obviously used ChatGPT for their essay!
Colleague: What did you do?
Professor: Called them into my office. Told them that for writing, you should use Claude 3.5...
In retrospect the Golden Gate Claude by @AnthropicAI was a brilliant safety demonstration: changing 1 weight in the network made it obsessed with talking about the bridge. It seems straightforward to extrapolate to a much larger network that "wants" to do something IRL.
This was easily one of the most technically impressive events I’ve been to in SF.
Everything from writing assembly with @realGeorgeHotz to beating ARC SOTA
Here are the demos from the Open Source AGI Hackathon at @AGIHouseSF w/ @NousResearch@__tinygrad__@PrimeIntellect (🧵):
@hthieblot@fdotinc@ycombinator@HF0Residency One of the most important reasons SF is a great city for early-stage Founders to build....
It's boring AF.
You can just be heads down working.
No FOMO.
It's beautiful.
For those that hope (or worry) that LLMs will do breakthrough scientific research, I've got good (or bad) news:
LLMs are particularly, exceedingly, marvellously ill-suited to this task. (if you're a researcher, you'll have noticed this already)
Here's why🧵
Microsoft launched the best course on Generative AI!
The free 18 lesson course is available on Github and will teach you everything you need to know to start building Generative AI applications.
Look at this guy.
He lost $14.5M on FTX
Now he’s the founder of Solana's biggest NFT collection
Here's the untold story of Armani Ferrante and his insane comeback:
@hfangca@milesdeutscher It’s a good sign that many people are finally talking about utility- we have the “fat protocol” thesis for a while, finally the Blockchain tech is commodified enough people are focusing on use cases and applications
A MAJOR fundamental flaw in crypto is starting to emerge.
It's the #1 reason why altcoins are underperforming this cycle.
And currently, there seems to be no fix.
I just dug through all the data (what I found was shocking).
🧵: How altcoin dispersion is killing crypto.👇
ETHEREUM SURVIVES THE SEC.
Today we’re happy to announce a major win for Ethereum developers, technology providers, and industry participants: the Enforcement Division of the SEC has notified us that it is closing its investigation into Ethereum 2.0.
This means that the SEC will not bring charges alleging that sales of ETH are securities transactions.