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Musk’s Self-Driving Timeline Shifts Again After Years of Predictions

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18 March 2024 6h51

My brain hurts trying to figure this out. Headline: "Elon Musk Says It Will Be A Decade Before Most Cars Are Self-Driving — There Is A More 'Immediate Concern' At Hand". From the guy who has said every year for ten years that self driving will be here by the end of the year, the

Elon Musk’s Immaturity as Social Media Autocrat Raises Concerns

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18 March 2024 3h32

I think it's great that Elon is a gifted teenager in private or while building awesome trucks and spaceships, but its not optimal that he plays a teenager in public, while being acting figurehead and de facto autocratic ruler of the most important social media platform.

Social Media Design: Balancing Multiple Audience Segments Responsibly

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18 March 2024 3h10

Exactly. Successful media franchises are often run by people who aim to make a one audience segment very happy by making another audience segment very unhappy, but the same cannot be said for successful social media utilities (which should serve all legitimate audience segments)

Elon’s Political Strategy and Success Freedom in Tech

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18 March 2024 2h41

If you are super successful, you may get more freedom to joke, unless the success of your projects depends on not picking the wrong fights. Elon's strategy of infusing the polis with his political opinions suggests that most of his opinions about humans are randomness + local RL.

Training LLMs from Driver Data: Flow States and Performance

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18 March 2024 1h20

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

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Apple Quietly Acquires AI Startups Ahead WWDC June Announcement

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18 March 2024 0h57

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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18 March 2024 0h42

Google 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. pic.twitter.com/Q5FsPFHjD5
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 17 mars 2024

Google 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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18 March 2024 0h42

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.