there's an amazing Microsoft Flight Simulator Easter egg in the 40th Anniversary Update. You can play Flight Simulator 4.0 for DOS and three older Flight Sim versions right inside the cockpit of a plane! Full YouTube video here: youtube.com/watch?v=k6SYxx…

Favourite new tool is using a GPT detector to see if an opinion comes from “stochastic parrot” knowledge or if it has the possibility of containing alpha from real lived experience

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

French man wins right to not be ‘fun’ at work washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/…

New sperm meta-analysis. Big takeaways: • Sperm reduction is not localized, happening globally • 50% reduction in avg sperm count since 1973 • Following this trend, the average man will not be able to have children unassisted by 2050 academic.oup.com/humupd/advance…

That is why AI will make the job of most economists - including myself - obsolete over the next few decades. Most jobs - routine, cognitive and eventually even creative - will be displaced by AI/ML/Robotics/Automation. See Chapter 8 of my book Megathreats littlebrown.com/titles/nouriel…

Best case scenario: automated wordy BS generation nudges humans towards dispensing with wordy BS entirely. People refocus on actionable thinking and concise communication. Worst case scenario: the world is flooded with a lot more wordy BS. (This is more plausible.)

¿qué trabajos no están en riesgo con una IA del estilo chatGPT? los de aquellos que: 1) sepan hacer las preguntas 2) tengan el juicio suficiente para filtrar la calidad de las respuestas

#AlphaCode—a new #AI system for developing computer code developed by @DeepMind—can achieve average human-level performance in solving programming contests. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/Nn

Introducing Dramatron, a new tool for writers to co-write theatre and film scripts with a language model. 🎭 Dramatron can interactively co-create new stories complete with title, characters, location descriptions and dialogue. Try it yourself now: dpmd.ai/dramatron-gith…

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: "Pre-pandemic, ~1% of all jobs posted on LinkedIn were remote. As of today, that number is ~14%...but that's not the fascinating part. What's fascinating is north of 50% of all job applications on a daily basis on LinkedIn go to that 14% of remote jobs" $MSFT

ChatGPT will kill businesses that don't change. The 6 businesses disrupted (& how you adjust to make a fortune):

Remember when people thought a recession would bring everyone back to the office? As this chart from CBRE /The Economist shows, things are only getting worse. But there's an even bigger point... 1/5

GPT4 will be out soon and will probably cause a similar economic shock to one from Covid. Instant distribution with nearly instant adoption and nearly instant productivity increase for hundreds of millions of knowledge workers. Brace yourselves, 2023 is coming

Who else spent all their Christmas demoing ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion to their astonished family?

Metropolis, To The Lighthouse, and the final Holmes stories are all entering the public domain. theverge.com/2022/12/28/235…

On December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson published the final 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip. #CalvinandHobbes