BIG TECH - AI Dynamics

Twitter Removes Blocking Feature: User Experience and Moderation Concerns

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20 August 2023 5h50

Removing blocking feature makes it challenging to stay on the platform. What is the motivation to remove blocking @elonmusk
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20 August 2023

Tech Giant’s Early International Engineering Office Expansion Strategy

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@jeffdean

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20 August 2023 4h21

I remember when we were opening our first engineering offices outside of Mountain View ages ago. We decided on NY, Zurich and Tokyo among the first few, which was like the top 3 most expensive locations in the world at the time (circa 2003/2004). Love these locations, though!

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20 August 2023

AI Institute Leadership Criticized for Diversity and Ethics Concerns

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@timnitgebru

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20 August 2023 4h16

The dudes who co-found institutes with Elmo (still on advisory board) delivering us with the manels of epic proportions with the most racist dudes (like Bostrom still on their advisory board). Take a look at this thread.

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20 August 2023

Tech leaders claiming to save humanity face credibility scrutiny

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20 August 2023 4h06

The dudes who have been giving us the most epic manels for decades get to talk about "saving humanity"?

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20 August 2023

Crypto Billionaires Funding Tech Doomsday Narratives in Media

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20 August 2023 4h05

So mainstream media is giving a platform to people who have crypto billioanire endowed institutes to worry about the "cosmocalypse" "if we don't improve technology"?

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20 August 2023

PicPlz Instagram Drama Echoes in Early iPhone App Wars

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@mattlynley

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19 August 2023 17h18

If you remember what happened with the PicPlz/Instagram weird drama back in the early days of the iPhone, this one should sound a little familiar. Full story can be found here:

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19 August 2023

New AI Wave: Investors Navigate Competition Beyond MLops Stack

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19 August 2023 17h05

Now that we're entering a NEW AI hype wave, investors are finding themselves with a growing dilemma: avoiding competition with the last one. In the last wave (we'll call it 2019-2022) a whole ecosystem of startups sprouted around picking off individual pieces of the MLops stack.

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19 August 2023

Bigtable handles 6 billion requests per second at peak

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@jeffdean

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19 August 2023 6h47

Not that many systems handle 6B QPS. "Bigtable has been in continuous production use at Google for more than 15 years now, processing over 6 billion requests per second at peak and with over 10 exabytes of data under management. "

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19 August 2023