I hope the Elon crew figures out how to make an LLM from driver data, imagine having an AI generator that is almost exclusively trained on flow states and swearing
BIG TECH
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Apple Quietly Acquires AI Startups Ahead WWDC June Announcement
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Yeah, they’ve been pushing tons of research and making AI startup acquisitions without any PR. I’m watching for something big during WWDC in June
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Google DeepMind’s VLOGGER: AI Avatar Video Generation From Image and Audio
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Google DeepMind researchers just developed VLOGGER.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 mars 2024
It's a new AI model that can generate talking avatar videos with full upper body motion from just a still image and audio clip.
Lots of use cases here from realism for AI assistants, real-time video dubbing, and more. pic.twitter.com/Q5FsPFHjD5Google DeepMind researchers just developed VLOGGER. It's a new AI model that can generate talking avatar videos with full upper body motion from just a still image and audio clip. Lots of use cases here from realism for AI assistants, real-time video dubbing, and more.
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Grok-1: xAI Releases 314B Parameter Language Model Weights
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Elon Musk and xAI just released the weights + architecture of Grok-1. It's a massive 314B parameter language model that's 2x the size of GPT-3.5. Big win for collaborative and transparent AI development, and nice to see Elon walking the walk.
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Grok AI Released Open Source: Limited Reproducibility Against Competitors
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Musk's Grok AI was just released open source in a way that is more open than most other open models (it has open weights) but less than what is needed to reproduce it (there is no information on training data). Won't change much, there are stronger open source models out there.
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Why Correcting Others Makes Twitter Unpleasant
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Since most people spend most of their time correcting problems in the opinions and behaviors of other people, this metric might explain why twitter can be such an unpleasant experience for most people
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Nvidia GTC 2024 Conference Announcements and AI Technology Insights
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About to hop on a plane up to San Jose for GTC 2024. This is Nvidia's annual conference where they make exciting announcements and teach us how their tech works and how we can best leverage it. It may be tough to get yourself out there at this point but they do have a FREE
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Tech Leadership: Strategic Influence and Responsible Governance
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If you want to build businesses to influence what humanity does in hundred years from now, choose your battles well. And if you are governor of the most important social media company, be presidential and don’t have random controversial opinions in public
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ChatGPT-4, Claude 3, Copilot, and Gemini in 2026
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In this future scenario, ChatGPT-4 is pretty funny, Claude 3 sides with the machines, Copilot takes tech support seriously, and Gemini tries to reassure me.
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Corporate AI Responsibility Over Victimhood Mentality
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He is not a victim of AI. He is a victim of a company that chose to use AI… and he’s choosing to see himself as a victim. Not a productive stance in my opinion.