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r-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/
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Twitter bug causes self-DDoS amid Elon Musk rate limits
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Building AGI with $23 and Unconventional Materials
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You’re probably wondering how i built AGI with just $23, five cans of black beans, an old Nintendo console, and chewing gum. Let me explain!
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Twitter Closes Dataset Access Against Commercial Scrapers
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I'm not here to convince you because you made up your mind. My goal here is to make great points for smarter people than you reading, and use humour to have fun in the process! Twitter is closing up because their "dataset" is valuable and they don't want commercial scrapers.
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Shoggoth: The Symbolic Monster of Modern AI
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How the Shoggoth Has Come to Symbolize the State of A.I.: The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. #Technology #Tech #FutureTech https://
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Whisper for efficient, professional email responses
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I often use Whisper (the OpenAI speech-to-text model available on the ChatGPT iOS app) to ad lib long email responses, and follow it up with a prompt to rewrite the email in a professional, courteous tone. Saves me probably an hour per day.
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Future of AI: Conversational Interfaces as Next Great Transition
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Was live on Bloomberg talking about the future of AI and the next great transition of user interfaces. The future is conversational!
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Nvidia’s AI Training Dominance Faces Potential Challenge from MosaicML
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And Nvidia still obviously owns AI training with their (very substantial) lead in AI training with its A100- and H100-series GPUs. Though that *might* be due for a change, particularly with some work coming out of (shocker) MosaicML this week.
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Transformers Paper Anniversary: Six Years of LLM Progress
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This also coincides roughly (June 12, to be exact) with the six-year anniversary of the release of the seminal Transformers paper, which made all of the developments in LLM possible in the first place—even if we're starting to run into some of the limitations it presents.
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Databricks Conference 2023: Mid-Year Industry Review
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We're at the halfway point for 2023, which might as well feel like a decade. It ended with an exclamation point as the Databricks conference came to a close on Friday. I thought it was as good a time as any to revisit some of the bigger topics I'd followed in the industry.
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Salesforce World Tour London: AI Day Experience
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Here I am with some of the great people that I met along the way when I took over @SalesforceUK Insta at Salesforce World Tour London: AI Day. The day was amazing! #SalesforceTour #SalesforceAI #AI