Ryan Weddle

Husband, father, builder, leader. I lead platform & AI pre-sales architects at Zoom. Previously AWS, Cisco.

[AnechoicMedia @AnechoicMedia_]

America's postal system is a sort of negative lootbox where 99.9% of items are trash but the other 0.1% are special quest items that if not promptly handled result in crippling debts or your arrest.

[Ryan Weddle @ryan_w]

Need to dig into this more, but on first glance it's incredibly interesting and sounds useful

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Launching our new paper on arXiv: we trained the largest multilingual food model ever built.

4.1M recipes. 7 languages. 1,790 ingredients. 300 dimensions.

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes.

[Steve Newman @snewmanpv]

It's generally a bad idea to bet against straight lines on AI graphs, but man...

Option A: the trend in GPU rack power density will break down before 2040.

Option B: GPU racks will eventually have greater power density than a nuclear reactor core.

[Kevin Vallier @kvallier]

Just so my non-AI followers understand: Anthropic has hired one of the most talented AI researchers on Earth to teach Claude to improve itself (if this report is true). Please pause and reflect on the significance of this for a moment.

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

this is insane. he’s gone so he can teach mythos to pre train their next
model.

[Ryan Weddle @ryan_w]

How much did @DarioAmodei increase in net worth by bringing @karpathy on board to work on @claudeai ?

[signüll @signulll]

this is like a leading franchise recruiting someone who’s simultaneously the best player & the league’s best broadcaster & its most watched developmental coach all in one.

[Ryan Weddle @ryan_w]

Wow. Somehow I didn't see this coming or expect it, but I'm excited to see what comes from it. I hope Andrej will still be able to make the amazing educational content he's become known for in his interregnum

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Person with ADHD: I consumed too much caffeine.

Neurotypicals: lol you’re about to be so wired and get so much done XD

Other people with ADHD: enjoy your nap

[Ryan Weddle @ryan_w]

@ihtesham2005 Very curious for what this means for dysgraphia, accommodating it, treating it, etc?

[corey.ching @coreyching]

New Plugin: @Zoom is now available in Codex.

Pull in a meeting transcript, ask Codex what happened, and turn the call into follow-up notes or next steps.

What should we add next?

[George Mack @george__mack]

The high agency triangle

[kache @yacineMTB]

You can do foundational machine learning research with a salary of a McDonald's employee. It's not that expensive at all. You just need to collect good data. And maybe have a codex subscription

[No Nonsense Neurodivergent @NoNonsenseND]

Yup we don't write like AI.

AI writes like us.

[kache @yacineMTB]

It's a very strange place to be working in tech. You can have your entire career about to disappear in front of you and yet you maintain a sense of calm. The truth is working in tech was never stable it always changed every couple of years. The only constant has change

[prinz @deredleritt3r]

We are, indeed, living through the singularity - and it has been fascinating to watch this realization slowly permeate through society:

- People in SF and a handful of those on X (including yours truly) generally believe in the imminent singularity. This is significantly more aggressive than my views regarding AI progress were ~12 months ago.

- CEOs/management of large enterprises, various public figures and the federal government have recently come to believe in rapid AI progress - I would call this the "Mythos Moment". These views are in line with my views from ~12 months ago (now hopelessly outdated).

- Tens (hundreds?) of millions are now using AI in the workplace extensively, and probably mostly view it as a "useful tool". 12 months ago, this was limited to coding, and even the number of coders who were using AI in their day-to-day work was significantly smaller.

- Yet the public at large still seems to live in the "hallucinating stochastic parrot" Gary Marcus land. No update in beliefs regarding AI capabilities between GPT-3.5 and now.

[Ryan Weddle @ryan_w]

@yacineMTB The only thing I know to do is to opt out. Even have to block myself from X on mobile. No instagram, no tiktok, youtube shorts blocked, etc. I'd love to be able to easily have my devices hack/redirect my attention in the ways I want, but it's painful

[kache @yacineMTB]

Outside a restaurant, I see a young man in cook's clothing squatting, scrolling his phone. Not too long ago, it would have been a cigarette break instead of a phone break

Why is this stuff not heavily controlled? It is retinal fentanyl on tap. Our society is sick. Our children!

[Ryan Weddle @ryan_w]

@tunguz I wonder if this is more about the failure of the universities to capitalize on the research with diffuse incentives across a bureaucracy compared to very meaningful impacts for individuals?