The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer (1983) defined the sound of 1980s pop music with its digital FM synthesis. I opened up the chip that powers it to take a look inside. With an estimated 45,000 transistors, this chip generated 16 notes at once. 🧵

Ewan Morrison Talking to LLM is to converse with emptiness. There's just none there but our anthropomorphizing intelligence.

Jim Fan says NVIDIA trained humanoid robots to walk and move like humans -- zero-shot transfer from simulation to the real world. 10 years of learning, compressed into 2 hours of simulation. Turns out you don’t need a giant model to master motion. “1.5 million parameters, not

Coffee Shops Ditch WiFi and Laptops To Limit Remote Work ift.tt/vqQweXD

We are slowly becoming a centrally planned economy based off of executive orders. This is no longer a capitalistic system. I feel like I’m living in Russia

Gemini

"Sir, google isn't stopping"

At #GoogleIO, we shared how decades of AI research have now become reality.  From a total reimagining of Search to Agent Mode, Veo 3 and more, Gemini season will be the most exciting era of AI yet.  Some highlights 🧵

If you’re in SF, be careful out there. I had two licenses of Microsoft Teams in my car, and someone broke in and left two more

Update: these dudes straight up patented my open source design. Like, no attempt at hiding it whatsoever: patents.google.com/patent/US20240…

🔌OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.

Damn, Google is k!lling it , you need to see this. The new version of Google Astra looks so powerful and can do so much more than before. Wait for 1 : 37 sec mark. Credit: Google YT

Google silently launched a way to describe a speaker's voice "style" in plain English. I've never seen anything like it. It seamlessly does different accents, dialects, tone, and languages. Check out Chinese vs Jamaican and Tamil/English vs Punjabi/English in this clip below!

Marty McFly’s iconic Cherry Red Gibson ES-345 from Back to the Future has been missing since 1985. Now, the filmmakers are searching for its whereabouts. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads—just clues. Know anything about the missing ES-345? Click👉 losttothefuture.com