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Sorry for the late episode; a bit over-exposed to journey/people and wanted a few days to battle off viruses/funk. Appear to have averted getting totally sick, which is sweet.
analyze_presentation— Added a brand new Cloth sample that seems to be on the transcript of a presentation and tells you ways a lot the presenter is attempting to brag, vs. entertain, vs. inform. In different phrases, it tells you ways self vs. different centered the presentation is, e.g., if they are saying “I” too typically, discuss credentials, accomplishments, and so on., vs. specializing in concepts.Spoke on the EQUILIBRIUM convention in NYC final week. Thanks a lot to Rohit Sethi for the invite, and to Chris Hughes for his nice discuss and our wide-ranging dialog beforehand. Significantly nice occasion.
I lastly bought to attend a dwell UFC occasion, and it turned out to be the most effective in historical past! Additionally made some new pals within the course of. What an incredible weekend!
Talking on the Hardly Strictly Safety convention quickly! Trying ahead to that one!
Talking on the Safety Frontiers AI Convention tomorrow. MORE
Talking tomorrow at an AI Cyber occasion placed on by Rain Capital, Icon Ventures, and J.P. Morgan on the J.P. Morgan Innovation middle. Due to Chenxi Wang for the invite! MORE
Gearing up for RSA already. The calendar is feeling the stress. In a great way. When you’ll be round, be sure you come get a fist bump or hug, as per your choice.
I simply completed studying Sense of Model, by Steven Pinker, for the third time. I prefer to learn it each 2-3 years. It’s my favourite writing/type information.
MY WORK
analyze_presentation — Added a brand new Cloth sample that seems to be on the transcript of a presentation and tells you ways a lot the presenter is attempting to brag, vs. entertain, vs. inform. In different phrases, it tells you ways self vs. different centered the presentation is, e.g., if they are saying “I” too typically, discuss credentials, accomplishments, and so on., vs. specializing in concepts.
I didn’t write any essays or make any movies this week, however I did get to do some podcasts with some sensible people, and people ought to come out quickly.
SECURITY
Microsoft says Chinese language hackers are utilizing AI to inflame social tensions within the US. MORE
I critically can’t wait to construct my propaganda tracker. If somebody begins a marketing campaign, I wish to see the place it spreads, turns into viral, and so on. I’m in search of VCs and everlasting operators for this. And authorities backing. If you already know individuals, let me know.
Over 92,000 D-Hyperlink NAS units are beneath assault because of an unpatched crucial RCE bug. | CRITICAL | RESPONSE: D-Hyperlink advises gadget retirement. Thanks D-Hyperlink. | MORE
SAP patches three high-severity vulnerabilities, together with a misconfiguration in SAP NetWeaver that would let customers set weak passwords. MORE
The U.S. simply blacklisted 4 further Chinese language corporations for procuring AI chips for China’s navy modernization efforts. MORE
The U.S. and China are racing to dominate with AI-driven drone swarms, similar to Daniel Suarez’s e-book, Kill Determination. MORE
Google’s contract reveals a partnership with Israel’s Protection Ministry throughout the Gaza battle, which is upsetting staff. MORE
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TECHNOLOGY
Nice NYT piece on automating finance jobs utilizing AI. “A few of Wall Road’s main banks are asking the identical query, as they check A.I. instruments that may largely exchange their armies of analysts by performing in seconds the work that now takes hours, or a complete weekend.” MORE
At this level if individuals don’t see the influence of AI on precise jobs, it’s as a result of they don’t learn sufficient, or don’t wish to see. This isn’t just like the dotcom increase, or like crypto. That is tech that’s immediately helpful, regardless of its flaws, and that we’re seeing actively exchange human employees.
Yohei continues doing nice work round AI brokers. This one is agent log visualization. MORE
Regardless of sanctions, Russia’s is getting 89% of its chips by way of China. MORE
Gary Marcus is betting $10M that we cannot have AI smarter than people by 2025. MORE
Mistral AI simply launched Mixtral 8x22B by way of a torrent hyperlink, which is an fascinating new method of distributing fashions. Is sensible. Plenty of individuals need them they usually’re actually massive. Precisely what torrents are good at. MORE
This paper says a Transformer is able to appearing like a general-purpose laptop. MORE
OpenAI simply shipped a brand new GPT-4 Turbo mannequin that focuses on being extra concise. I’ve examined it towards Opus and it’s nonetheless nowhere close to pretty much as good—a minimum of for the stuff I do. MORE
After AI beat them, skilled Go gamers did not simply catch up; they turned higher and extra artistic. MORE
I really like this narrative the place we study from AI beating us. However I don’t suppose which means we’ll be capable of sustain. It simply means we’ll have new methods to consider being good, which is beneficial and fascinating.
Nanotronics is rolling out CubeFab, a modular chip fab powered by Nvidia GPUs and AI, aiming to democratize semiconductor manufacturing. MORE
The Humane AI Pin bought flamed by MKBHD and different reviewers. MORE
I believe MKBHD can say no matter he desires on his channel. I simply suppose it was out of character for him to be so destructive and imply about it. He might have mentioned the identical issues with out the vitriol, and nonetheless made the identical factors. I like him for his even temperament as a lot as his evaluation, and the dunking was a turnoff for me. However I nonetheless suppose it’s his channel and he can do no matter he desires.
Dyson’s new CleanTrace function helps you to use AR to see the place you’ve got vacuumed, ensuring no spot is missed. MORE
Sequoia’s Arc Product-Market Match Framework introduces three distinctive archetypes to assist startups navigate their technique to market success. MORE
Tesla simply dropped the FSD subscription value to $99 a month. MORE
HUMANS
Proper after the photo voltaic eclipse, a ton of individuals Googled “my eyes damage”, which solely additional diminishes my hope for humanity. It’s not a lot that they appeared on the solar. It’s the 2 hit combo of wanting on the solar after which questioning what’s improper. MORE
One of many books that may completely change your life is the e-book All people Lies, which is about how Google searches reveal far more about actuality than surveys.
Job interviews are fairly horrible at predicting future job efficiency and would possibly even be counterproductive. Certain, however what’s the choice? MORE
Over half of girls expertise sexual harassment at work. MORE
Homicides are on a stunning decline throughout main American cities. MORE
I really feel like we’re this shut (gesturing) to an Onion article the place far-right individuals complain that the nation’s turning into feminized and is not into homicide.
U.S. Metal is about to grow to be part of Japan’s Nippon Metal. MORE
Harvard’s again to requiring SAT and ACT scores for admissions. It’s nearly like they have been a good suggestion within the first place, which is why we had them. MORE
I want the Overton Pendulum had greater than two settings—woke and racist. Can we get a compassionate/logical setting please?
Dumbphones are making a comeback. You get to remain in touch, however not be distracted. MORE
A Dungeons & Dragons present is about to promote out Madison Sq. Backyard. MORE
What prime performers do, and the right way to cope with critics and detractors MORE
Ernest Hemingway remodeled from a humble journalist to a literary superstar, shedding himself to the celebrity and energy that got here with success. MORE
Abraham Lincoln was formed by Aesop’s fables greater than some other e-book, together with the Bible. MORE
IDEAS & ANALYSIS
Guard Your Vitality Reserves
Heard a cool factor lately that mentioned that if in case you have an awesome concept, and it’s creating a whole lot of vitality inside you, you have to be very cautious with the way you share the thought.
Mainly, in line with the speculation, that vitality you may have for the thought is restricted and treasured, and even telling somebody about it removes its vitality, energy, and specialness.
So as a substitute of telling individuals about it, you need to go work on it instantly. That first vitality, the uncooked vitality, would be the strongest type, and also you don’t wish to waste it on attempting to get another person hyped on it as nicely.
Motive to Fear; Motive to Construct
I’m fearful concerning the world proper now. I believe the following few years are more likely to be the very best likelihood of killing ourselves that we’ve ever seen. Possibly not counting the Cuba disaster.
Trump might simply be re-elected, which I believe will make issues far worse for sanity and stability
I don’t see how the Gaza warfare doesn’t flip into the Iran warfare
Every part is getting costlier (or a minimum of feeling so)
At this precise second, AI goes to begin mass-replacing jobs
At this precise second, the neatest/luckiest are about to have the ability to create unbelievable worth and wealth
So the Okay-shape is about to curve—with the highest of the Okay hockey-sticking up, and the underside of the Okay hockey-sticking down.
This can empower the far-right
It might be unhealthy
Right here’s a diagram I created about all this in 2018:
Anyway, it’s miserable.
However I’m selecting to abstain from panic. I’m saying no to despair. I’m going to construct as a substitute. I’m going to elevate individuals up as a substitute. I’m going to create stuff as a substitute. I’m going to shoot for a distant and potential higher factor. A factor on the opposite aspect of all this.
And I actually suppose AI shall be an enormous a part of that answer.
Now, if all of it goes to hell, AI shall be a part of that too. However like I mentioned, I don’t care about that. I don’t plan to fail. I’m not betting towards the goodness and creativity of people.
And even when we are able to’t. We’ve got to consider we are able to.
So, I ask you to affix me in rejecting despair.
The world sucks. May worsen.
Fuck it. Swimsuit up. You’re a part of the optimism drive now.
Not out of ignorance. As a selection.
DISCOVERY
This Colab pocket book makes use of Claude to show pictures into Magic playing cards. | by Max Woolf | MORE
Andrej Karpathy simply dropped llm.c, a smooth GPT-2 implementation in beneath 1000 traces of pure C. | by Andrej Karpathy | MORE
Aider turns your terminal right into a pair programming session with AI, enhancing and committing code immediately in your git repo. | by Paul Gauthier | MORE
DNSViz is like an X-ray on your DNS, exhibiting you precisely what is going on on beneath the hood. | by DNSViz | MORE
Cohere’s Rerank 3 mannequin boosts enterprise search and RAG programs with minimal fuss. | by Cohere | MORE
Udio turns your textual content prompts into music, matching any type you fancy. | by UdioMusic | MORE
A group of content material concepts which have really resonated on TikTok. | MORE
Firecrawl.dev turns whole web sites into datasets prepared for big language fashions to digest. | MORE
zk turns your command line into a robust, plain textual content Zettelkasten or private wiki keeper. | by zk-org | MORE
RECOMMENDATION OF THE WEEK
Learn the piece above within the Concepts part above.
Reject despair. Embrace the work of constructing the higher factor.
APHORISM OF THE WEEK
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Being deeply liked by somebody provides you energy, whereas loving somebody deeply provides you braveness.
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