Thought for the day: evolution completely outclasses us at nuanced optimization of complex systems. Conversely, our great advantage is the ability to precisely coordinate efforts and resources on large scale. Thus, evolution wins at: low-temperature chemical processing;

On one had, this is pretty cool. On the other hand, the only press releases I want to see from fusion companies at this point is “we achieved net energy”.

It really is remarkable that 99.8% of my interactions with Gemini are "get this thing out of my face". I wouldn't post just to dunk, but this points at real questions: why is Google shoving Gemini into all of its apps so aggressively? Are people actually using these

OK, we've identified *one* genuinely useful AI integration in Google apps! This sounds nice.

In a recent interview on Hard Fork, Amazon's VP in charge of Alexa stated that Alexa+ uses 70 different models behind the scenes, specialized for different tasks. Sounds like someone hasn't internalized the Bitter Lesson.

A collection of analogies for AI relationships: 1. AI relationships are like flophouses / shitty apartments. Sure, it's aesthetically unpleasing to see people live in bad housing, but destroying it just makes people homeless -- it doesn't make great houses pop into existence.

I have this theory that we are in a period of increasing marginal utility of capabilities. GPT-2 to GPT-3 jump was a bigger jump than 3 to 4, which was bigger than 4 to 5. But the utility jumps have been increasing. My core thesis for why is that most use cases are bottlenecked

Main application window for The Curve ends this Friday, 8/22! We’re super excited to get this excellent and ~eclectic group of people in the same room, discussing toughest questions about the future of AI. Application + more about who will be there below ⬇️

I'm really excited that Nathan Lambert will be speaking at The Curve! Fostering conversations outside of our usual networks is the whole point of the conference. Regular-price application deadline is Friday, details & application form linked from Nathan's tweet!

Most conferences gather people who already agree with each other. The Curve does the opposite: mixing communities that see AI completely differently. Deeply understanding other perspectives is a superpower in policy work. I'll be there. Main application window closes Friday!

Oh, did we forget to mention? Zvi Mowshowitz is coming! Seriously though, The Curve will be conversations-focused, which means our attendees play as much of a role in making it great as the speakers. Stoked to have Zvi participating.