JB

Managing Partner at Division 7
Building the ventures that build the future

[JB @notjamesbennett]

AI podcasts are going to change the game

[Ragavan Thurairatnam @RagavanThurair]

We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech!

Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs.

This is a GPT3 moment for speech.

[JB @notjamesbennett]

What's a problem you'd gladly pay someone to solve?

Work, home, business, anything.

[JB @notjamesbennett]

All the cyber attacks this week have me thinking of that famous quote:

“the only thing that stops a bad guy with an uncensored model is a good guy with an uncensored model”

or something like that…

[JB @notjamesbennett]

@ryanvogel @hollylawly is your agent sending emails autonomously? or just triaging them and briefing you / writing drafts for you to review and send?

[JB @notjamesbennett]

The biggest challenge this week has been the painful realization that all the new AI “safeguards” are now preventing the good guys from adequately defending themselves.

Check your systems, and assume the bug you patched last week has a sibling.

Good luck!

[JB @notjamesbennett]

This last week was a nightmare, even by recent standards.

Things are moving so fast now that if you weren’t online every second of the day, chances are you missed a lot of important stuff.

Here's the timeline:

[JB @notjamesbennett]

Certs and outages:

- GoDaddy (Oct 20), 404,607 certs to revoke.
- BAE Systems (Oct 15), bankruptcy court filings offline.
- Onamae (Oct 21), 26,739 servers down.

[JB @notjamesbennett]

Playing to not lose isn’t the same as playing to win.

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

fear not!

this is no cyberpocalypse

this is the internet’s immune system finally waking up to an illness it has always had

a mere fever

the 0days were always there

the only thing that changed is awareness

now we begin the healing process ⚕️