Thomas Smedsrud

Lege, rådgiver og IT-fyr. Tvitrer med venstrehånda og stemmer med høyre. Jobb

[David Bellamy @DavidRBellamy]

I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands.

And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

i think AI is about to uncover an entire hidden world of animal communication

and what it's already found is insane...

> AI found evidence that elephants call each other by name. when researchers played one its name-like call, it approached the speaker faster and called back more, revealing a form of personal naming once thought almost uniquely human

> AI analyzed 53,993 marmoset calls and found tiny monkeys may use names too. entire families use similar labels for the same monkey, suggesting they learn names and dialects from each other

> AI learned to tell what Egyptian fruit bats were arguing about: food, mating, sleeping spots or personal space. it could even partly identify who was shouting at whom inside a colony of thousands

> AI discovered a “phonetic alphabet” in sperm whale clicks, with rhythm, tempo and tiny timing changes combining into at least 143 recurring patterns. their communication system is nearly 10x more expressive than scientists previously believed, and we still don't know what most of it means

> an AI trained on 1.5 million zebra finch calls held real-time vocal exchanges with living birds, generating calls as they spoke and getting them to respond with the same timing and flexibility they use with other birds

> Google trained an AI on decades of dolphin recordings to predict what sound comes next, then paired it with an underwater device that gives objects their own synthetic whistles. the goal is for a wild dolphin to copy a whistle to ask a human for a specific object, creating a tiny shared vocabulary between species

> AI combined microphones worn by wild crows with nest cameras and uncovered quiet calls that may announce when a crow is arriving at the nest and help entire families coordinate caring for their chicks

> a robot bee performed the waggle dance real bees use to share the direction and distance of food, and the bees changed their flight paths based on its instructions. researchers effectively sent a destination into a hive in bee language

[Chris Olah @ch402]

I try to not talk about politics. I generally believe the best way I can serve the world is as a non-partisan expert, and my genuine beliefs are quite moderate. So the bar is very high for me to comment.

But recent events – a federal agent killing an ICU nurse for seemingly no reason and with no provocation – shock the conscience.

My deep loyalty is to the principles of classical liberal democracy: freedom of speech, the rule of law, the dignity of the human person. I immigrated to the United States – and eventually cofounded Anthropic here – believing it was a pillar of these principles.

I feel very sad today.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

No spoilers, but this is the cleverest football advert I've ever seen.

[AK @_akhaliq]

Lamborghini products, midjourney AI

1. Outdoor BBQ Grill

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

The Northern Atlantic Ocean is heating up so rapidly that it is literally, nearly off the charts. Pay heed. This is well beyond record-breaking.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The story of the hamster that traded cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens by running on a wheel and strolling through tunnels: in 3 months it outperformed the S&P 500, its portfolio being up ~24%

[read more: https://t.co/8c2zPcIEL4]

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The inexorable decrease in kids' ranges. (via @eshear)

[Tuomas Haarnoja @haarnoja]

We just released our work on robot soccer. I've been working on this for quite some time with my amazing colleagues at DeepMind. It's exciting how deep RL can produce such beautiful behaviors with low-cost robots. Full paper is available at https://t.co/A65rPLL7UD Enjoy!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A living ladybug found in someone’s transverse colon during a colonoscopy

📸American College of Gatroenterology

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Words Known Better by Females Than Males, and Vice Versa https://t.co/XTJv1OXnvo

Source: https://t.co/1nqMMiCbLj

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

GPT4 can create some pretty impressive sci-fi. I mean, it's just a story, right? Right???!

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Good. I would say “read him his rights,” but that would be more than what Putin gives his innocent victims. https://t.co/NUwvVlL8Zq

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

After you defeat all the lunch table beatboxers, this is the final boss 🥁

[Austin Rief ☕️ @austin_rief]

This level of mastery is mind-blowing.

Whenever I think I’m getting good at something, I watch this.

[Pål Ringholm @PRingholm]

Søndagsgraf!

Ikke bra

Virkelig ikke bra

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I believe I used AI to create the Single Nerdiest Table in History.

I asked Bing AI to rank characters from fantasy novels based on their presumed chess ELO rankings. And, honestly, I see no lies here.

[Ellen Pasternack @pastasnack_e]

Road Dahl absolutely murdered by 21st century safetyism. Anything vivid, shocking, exciting has to be watered down and made insipid. A fundamental lack of trust of the reader- we can't mention guns or hair-pulling even in a negative way in case it puts ideas in your head

[Henning Carr Ekroll @HCEkroll]

For en ellevill tråd

[DIPS @DIPS_AS]

Overlege Jan Fossheim ved @sus_no sier han ved hjelp av DIPS Arena har halvert tiden han bruker på å gå gjennom henvisninger. I snitt mener han å spare en time på denne jobben hver dag. Les siste sak i #dmag: https://t.co/Vg2hMzmgTR #ehelse #DIPSArena