In addition to the link that @danbri pointed at, there's a more detailed report on eco-friendly routing here: https://
gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustai
nability/google-maps-eco-friendly-routing.pdf
… In particular, it has some methodological details about how this is calculated.
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Google Maps Eco-Friendly Routing: Methodology and Sustainability Report
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Stanford’s Sophia Cuts Language Model Pretraining Time Half
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With the goal of optimizing the pretraining of large language models, Stanford scholars developed an approach called Sophia which cuts that time in half. Find out how they did it:
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Meta’s Photorealistic Metaverse Avatar Tech Impresses Crypto Community
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The #Metaverse is real: Zuck’s ‘incredible’ photorealistic tech wows crypto Twitter https://
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Building Robust API for Bots and Developer Features
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We are making sure we build all these bots on our own API to ensure it is robust and first class as we prepare for some major new features for developers soon! (7/7)
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AI Advances Toward Generalized Operating System with Multimodal Interface
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All advances in AI algorithms, training approaches, and datasets were a mean to an end: A generalized Operating System(OS) that is promptable, multimodal I/O, human friendly(as opposed to classical OSs), has different levels of applications in app store(where most apps are great
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Simon Stålenhag’s Visionary AI and Technology Art
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Haha came to say the things. Love the work of Simon Stålenhag
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Machine Feeling Unknown: effect of reverse writing instruction
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Machine Feeling Unknown — the effect of instructing ChatGPT (GPT-4) to first write all responses backwards and then reverse them:
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Natural Language Interfaces Likely Before AI Overlay Technology
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I think overlays will get there but if natural language interfaces are a prerequiste it does seem like something that's purely language first will exist before overlays (which still have a bit of work to go).
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Advanced LLM OS Could Replace 80% of Computer Usage
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A sufficiently advanced LLM OS could probably replace 80%+ of what people use computers for. In 2017 during the first AR wave people talked about audio AR coming first. A system like an always-on LLM OS is this in many ways – it's more "augmented reality" (as computing on the
