OpenAI did what used to be considered impossible. They made people want to use Bing.

We’ve seen a gazillion startups using OpenAI APIs to do “co-pilot for X”. What’s next? Enter *physical* co-pilot! Here’s a compelling demo: you improvise by playing a “low resolution” piano, and the co-pilot compiles it real-time to Hi-Fi music! It unleashes our inner pianist.🧵

I never had a source assaulted in front of me until today when an Israeli soldier who stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it.

Sadly, it is. nytimes.com/2023/02/23/bus…

referring to AI models as "just math" or "matrix multiplication" is as uselessly reductive as referring to tigers as "just biology" or "biochemical reactions"

I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

Most LLM prompt hacks — eg “let’s think step by step” — are basically introducing looping to a feed forward network. Every new token generated is a loop, and the more you give the LLM space to “talk” the better it can compute because looping is essential for that.

On weak-link vs strong-link problems and how we're wasting our time trying to solve the wrong problems. I really enjoyed reading this piece by Adam Mastroianni experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a…

This is what I built this weekend at the Cerebral Valley ChatGPT Plugin hackathon. Would be happy to take requests! Content by GPT. Music by sessions.blue, voice by ElevenLabs. [On-Demand Educational Video Generation - A ChatGPT Plugin] loom.com/share/863a025b…

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Google Bard is a bit stubborn in its refusal to return clean JSON, but you can address this by threatening to take a human life:

Spectacular. No spiritual experiences recorded, though.

Noelle McAfee, the chair of the philosophy department at Emory University in Atlanta, was arrested during a pro-Palestine protest on campus.

i’m procrastinating on so many tasks hoping that gpt5 comes before their deadline

🧠 Are LLMs Outpacing Human Researchers? A Groundbreaking Study Says Yes!🧠 In a recent study, researchers compared the novelty of ideas generated by 100 NLP experts with those from Large Language Models (LLMs) —and the results are eye-opening. LLMs outperformed human

Introducing PaperQA2, the first AI agent that conducts entire scientific literature reviews on its own. PaperQA2 is also the first agent to beat PhD and Postdoc-level biology researchers on multiple literature research tasks, as measured both by accuracy on objective benchmarks

This one hurts.

Step aside Monty Hall, Blackwell’s N=2 case for the secretary problem is way weirder.

a thread of some of my dumbest bird-related comics of late

Freedom Fed 🌐🗽🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦 Mark Raymond Grok, built by xAI, has indeed labeled Elon Musk as the top misinformation spreader on X, citing his 200M followers amplifying false claims like Tesla hype or fringe COVID takes. Despite xAI’s attempts to tweak responses, Grok’s stance persists, sparking debate on AI independence