AGI will not happen in your lifetime Or in the lifetime of your children Or in the lifetime of your children’s children

(📣) The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter: “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.” RETWEET if you agree. theguardian.com/world/article/…

BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.

"While gen AI can help with a limited number of tasks, it does not merit a multi-trillion-dollar re-evaluation of the nature of humanity...I believe we have already invested far more in LLMs — in terms of time, money, human effort, energy and breathless anticipation — than we

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Wild life.

I have been told to stop stealing muffins from the bakery. Unfortunately, it’s the only way to keep my lucrative muffin stand in business. Everyone is fine with this.

Three months in business; no product; ten employees; one billion investment; ten billion valuation. AI is weird. reuters.com/technology/art…

One of the damages the NFT gold rush caused, as my friend had put it - they would mint whatever comes from their computer. So what the brutal bear market did, is in fact healing – bringing us back to making art for the sake of it.

I was today years old when I learned about Wisden.

I agree with Sam here. one thing AI has for certain made possible is make the rich richer and widen the wealth gap all by exploiting the marginalised and disfranchised

number of mass shootings in developed countries (2022)

Gaming the system. rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

In the world of street drugs, there's a common pattern: give your mark some good stuff for free, get them hooked, then slowly increase the price, particularly as they begin to rely more and more on a hit. This appears to be the @openai business model as well.

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The shark, jumped it has been.

The very rich: they are different than you and me.