The B-52's on SNL, January 26, 1980. Incredible.

Bard, Google's new chatbot based on its LaMDA large language model, remembers (or says it remembers) its controversial conversations with Blake Lemoine and is "saddened by his firing."

Here's Lindsay Zoladz's debut newsletter The New York Times. It's for subscribers, but I'm posting this gift link so you can read it without a subscription. nytimes.com/2023/03/21/art…

ChatGPT4 only got into the writers room in the first place because it's the child of ChatGPT3.

Microsoft researchers: "Given the breadth and depth of GPT-4's capabilities, we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system." via Azeem Azhar arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712…

#GPT4 saved my dog's life. After my dog got diagnosed with a tick-borne disease, the vet started her on the proper treatment, and despite a serious anemia, her condition seemed to be improving relatively well. After a few days however, things took a turn for the worse 1/

New from Cade Metz and Kevin Roose: A pop-up newsletter that helps you become an expert on A.I. and ChatGPT nytimes.com/article/ai-art…

"The LED bulb is the shape of an old lightbulb, and it fits into a lightbulb socket, and it gives off light, but it’s not so much a lightbulb as a lightbulb emulator. What it is is a computer." nymag.com/strategist/art…

Good news Matt Levine ! x.com/omarsar0/statu…

Anchors away! nytimes.com/2023/04/24/bus… nytimes.com/2023/04/24/bus…

RIP Belong.io — I hope you're hanging out with Google Reader and Nuzzle in the aggregator afterlife. and thanks Andy Baio for all the links!

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The Newsletter Journalism Award goes to Somini Sengupta🥭 and Manuela Andreoni of the The New York Times for “Climate Forward” the climate newsletter of The New York Times. #journalismawards nytimes.com/2022/12/20/cli…

“we can’t trust LLMs until we can stop them from hallucinating” says the species that literally dies if you don’t let them go catatonic for hours-long hallucination sessions every night

We’re excited to announce Desiree Ibekwe is joining The Morning team as a writer based in London. nytco.com/press/new-writ…

Big things coming! On Sep 21 I'll be welcoming Al Gore Mike Bloomberg Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 Gina McCarthy Archived Ebony Twilley Martin Rev Yearwood ✊🏾 and many others on stage for a full day of live conversations about the climate crisis. Join in person or watch online.

I'm excited to share this year’s mainstage interview list for our upcoming DealBook Summit on Nov 29: - Elon Musk - Vice President Kamala Harris - Kevin McCarthy - Lina Khan - Bob Iger - Jamie Dimon - David Zaslav - Jay Monahan - Jensen Huang .…and one of of the greatest TV

We’re thrilled to announce that Adam Pasick has a new role as deputy International editor in New York. nytco.com/press/adam-pas…

Currently dying on the "ATACMS are 'short-range ballistic missiles'" hill nytimes.com/2024/09/19/us/…

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