Google Glass wearers were being attacked in San Francisco ten years ago – though that could partly have been a reaction against the tech industry generally, hard to know if it was directly due to surveillance concerns
BIG TECH
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NVIDIA Named Google Cloud Partner of Year for Generative AI
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We're thrilled to be named a #GoogleCloudPartnersTechnology Partner of the Year. NVIDIA on #GoogleCloud supports more platforms, services, and hardware to accelerate customer journeys with #GenerativeAI. https://
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Symbolic Logic Fusions with LLM Transformers by Google DeepMind
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AI Researchers have been working on Symbolic Logic fusions with LLM Transformers One example from @GoogleDeepMind
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Three Critical Questions Shaping AI’s Future Landscape
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This chart shows the three big questions of AI right now (even given the limitations of MMLU as a test):
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OpenAI Expansion to Tokyo: AI Hub Growth in Japan
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Great to see more companies like OpenAI also expanding to Japan. Tokyo is going to become a city with a significant presence in AI. Tokyo has always attracted the ‘right’ kind of people: creative, curious, weird and eccentric. Official announcement here:
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Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator Unveiled at IntelVision
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Ever had those moments that stick with you, moments you'll never forget?
— Helen Yu (@YuHelenYu) 15 avril 2024
Well, picture this: @PGelsinger dancing at #IntelVision, unveiling the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. It's like Steve Jobs revealing the iPhone in 2007—pure magic, right? These moments, they're what make… pic.twitter.com/WND06w6PoEEver had those moments that stick with you, moments you'll never forget? Well, picture this: @PGelsinger dancing at #IntelVision, unveiling the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. It's like Steve Jobs revealing the iPhone in 2007—pure magic, right? These moments, they're what make
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OpenAI launches Japan office with Japanese-optimized GPT-4 model
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Introducing OpenAI Japan, our first office in Asia, along with a new GPT-4 custom model specifically optimized for 日本語 (the Japanese language). https://t.co/mIcCpbC18m pic.twitter.com/UJjQpBjKsO
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) 15 avril 2024Introducing OpenAI Japan, our first office in Asia, along with a new GPT-4 custom model specifically optimized for 日本語 (the Japanese language). https://
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Blackfoot Wisdom Against Surveillance Capitalism and Productivity Maximization
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The Blackfoot wisdom, although please do confirm from the source, is that a person is realized when born as part of a community. No maximization of productivity directives providing a sideways deadly permission toward extractive surveillance capitalism. Just “you are enough.”
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OpenAI training data transparency and AP licensing concerns
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Yeah I've been wondering about that – is the more recent training data mostly stuff they've licensed from sources like the AP? https://
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OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo Training Cutoff Extended to December 2023
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I had the impression that this was one of the reasons OpenAI's training cutoff stayed stuck at September 2021 for so long – but clearly that concern is no longer limiting them, their most recent GPT-4 Turbo has a cutoff date of December 2023