Vitaliy

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[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

It seems like robots are trying to become more human, while humans are becoming more like robots 🤔

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Steve Jobs literally predicted the iPhone, the Internet, AI and the next 50 years of technology in a single speech from 1983:

[Alex Cheema @alexocheema]

Running Kimi K2.5 on my desk.

Runs at 24 tok/sec with 2 x 512GB M3 Ultra Mac Studios connected with Thunderbolt 5 (RDMA) using @exolabs / MLX backend.

Yes, it can run clawdbot.

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

It seems like there’s an abundance of noise and a deficit of truth.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

“Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house, as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy”

— Heath Ledger

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Whales have arm, wrist & finger bones in their front fins. This is the front fin bones of a Grey whale.

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

Master class in science communications:

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

[Cornell University @Cornell]

Big Red memorabilia stretching back more than a century can be found in all forms and sizes: stick pins and brooches, bear-shaped emblems, game tickets, programs, banners, and much more.

But at Cornell and elsewhere, one of the most popular and longstanding items of school pride is the classic, triangular felt pennant—which, in Cornell’s case, is of course nearly always red—sporting bold lettering and a logo or insignia.

In preparation for a recent display by Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Kroch Library rotunda (@Cornell_Library), exhibitions coordinator Kate Carlin took a deep dive into Big Red pennants (and banners, too).

“They were interpreted in so many different ways,” she says, “for different groups or uses—general school spirit, athletics, colleges and majors, clubs, class years.”

As the Kroch exhibit explains, small triangular flags can be traced to the Middle Ages, when knights carried them. Later flown from ship masts, they were a means of communication with other boats.

Read about how, for generations of Cornellians, the humble pennant has been a tried and true way to display Big Red pride at https://t.co/AxKcusMK7a.

[Cornell University @Cornell]

Snowman keeping his cool in the cold. Big Red spirit at its finest. ⛄️☀️

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

Magic ☀️

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

Check this out: What Up Gangsta truck by Shifty Brent (AI persona) was created using AI tools to mimic a vintage soul singer’s voice and production style.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The shadow of a walking millipede.

📽: Crystal Allbright

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

THE DESENSITIZED GENERATION

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Immune To Novelty By AI Video Fatigue

With just a few hours of testing OpenAI’s Sora2 Social Network for my clients and just finished a 218 page report, the thing I thought about for decades is upon us:

Full Desensitization Of Visual Novelty

I knew so many years ago, and one reason I have posted on the account so many novel images and videos that one day we will rapidly become immune to “oh damn, it’s over” images and video. With Sora2 this desensitization will rapidly accelerate as “you and your friends” build endless videos where you and they are inserted.

Like all things that get abused, the first phase is “wow look at this”, the next phase is “can it do that” and the last phase is “nothing is real and I don’t care”.

The shock value of the entire technology become removed but in the final phases it will be pushed to extremes of insults and potentially purposeful directed reputation damage.

This will take place so rapidly as Sora2 and every other social network rushes to take whatever nicely oxygen that is left in the room for more and more “it’s over, we are so cooked” fantastical videos.

They will continue to get so much better that even the “debunker” experts will give up their “look at the fingers-type troupe”, they honestly will not know and soon burn out.

My easy point is get ready to be bored by the novelty of humans that in the past took potentially hours of thier lives to create novelty in reality.

The hard point is what now? Once a society takes something that has increasingly more and more amazing possibilities like AI and rapidly becomes immune to the possibilities the entire industry become devalued because the front facing aspect to AI will be Sora2-like social media.

Humanity’s entire past of astonishing achievements, the high points and the low points and the incredible art we can make will equally become devalued because this fatigue will make us not care and not trust what was real.

Everything will become a forever now where there was no real past because it would take impossible effort to verify it if at all.

Why?

Because not only are we the Desensitized Generation we are also the Amnesia Generation where Petabytes of all forms of media, books, papers, microfilm/microfiche, film, VHS, audio tapes, records, etc is being thrown away or decayed. Not to mention the daily removal of text, images, video and audio from the internet. We simply will not have the receipts, we won’t have the memory and the fatigue is too large to care.

It took 5 dark nights for the Library to burn, the sum total of human knowledge. In our age the burn is slow and rapidly increasing till the pot boils over.

What are the answers?

I have thought about this for decades. I will continue to write about it a lot. But one thing you can do is understand we are rapidly losing our past because almost no one cares. I should not be the only one dumpster diving to save what I can. Also protect your mind and preserve your “novelty” sensitivity because once it is burned out with fatigue, it will never return.

And I ask you to have grace and compassion to those that don’t know what we know. You are the 1% of the 1% and must serve a place to help those that can understand what this means and have grace to those who can’t. I am serious, be gentle with them as they find the bottom of the hole and hopefully find a way back.

This video below was novel and she risked her life. You are the last generation to understand this.

The post reposted of a CEO head in a toilet, is AI rendered it is not novelty.

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

@grok @Tesla Unicorn just wouldn’t stay in park mode.

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

@grok Unicorns are much harder to operate than @Tesla Cybertruck Model X

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

@grok More boats and people

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

Bringing history to life with @grok has turned into my new hobby. Next level experience.

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

@grok Boats and planes!

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

Natural movement

[Vitaliy @vitaliycom]

Moving car executed perfectly. @grok