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I still think of this video often and wonder if it is building on any of that technology, almost 10 years old now. Just looking at this whitepaper it seems like they both use some kind of infrared transcranial light, but never imagined the machine in the original iteration was so big [Regina Dugan's Keynote at Facebook F8 2017 | Inverse] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI
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This is the plot of The Peripheral, right? Love the way the second half of that book turned out. Never finished Agency..
IA is hosting a couple more of Rick Prelinger’s shows this month. Looking forward to visiting
Kirlian Selections rocks
I didn't see any mention of this in the article, but: not sure if his wife is still on the board of OpenAI or not. He must have a unique and intimate view into some of this stuff and it's probably why they asked him about this stuff instead of another good actor. Big fan of his movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI
regina dugan's f8 keynote 8 years ago
where they announced they were working on a 'haptic vocabulary' for a skin interface as well as noninvasive brain scanning technologyu\
After Doug's recent passing, I sincerely doubt it.
I've had a few TWSBIs over the last 5 years or so and I love them. Haven't had any hairline fractures yet - any idea what may have caused them? Am curious now
Kavita is awesome. I host it on my pc and serve it to my iPad/iPhone over a zerotier VPN
Well for what it’s worth I wouldn’t have watched it without this retrospective. Very skeptical of dark matter and find this topic highly interesting
Yeah that makes sense. Got me wondering to what extent it’s possible with something like load balancing too. Maybe meetups don’t have to corner the market on that kind of info sharing
I live here too. I'm biased, but 1) this place is not full of awesome engineers, it's mostly full of overworked contractors and newbies with eighth grader syndrome. And 2) you can't just walk up to them and ask them to explain everything about their project. That's a huge security issue and if it were true it would be a lot easier to social engineer places today. Not to say that it isn't possible, but this comment paints an unproductive, idealized, and inaccurate view of the bay.
edit: it is a very cool e-ink project, and there are some cool communities like the maker faire. Reflexively reacting against the generalization
Spacenoid and newtype neonates
People have a lot more faith in ReAct than they should, for applications like this
Ahh yes the early beta version of endorphin port
Theyre so out of touch it’s almost funny
As a Gibson fan: this sounds like his robot avatars from The Peripheral and the VR glasses from Virtual Light.
In his most recent book, Agency, he describes 'laminar agents'. They're basically uncensored multimodal LLMs that can see the world through VR glasses.
Interestingly, Neal Stephenson named his metaverse company Lamina1. I like to think he named it after the term in Agency.
I agree with your assessment that a lot of this stuff is BPO. There is only so much customer service that can be automated. That being said, AI is a big tent and has been around for decades, despite the media claiming that OpenAI has been the first company to take it into the mainstream. AI flies fighter jets without any human pilots. I personally think there is already a lot of impressive stuff happening with reinforcement learning and am excited to see where large action models go, despite rabbit's failures.
Luke skywalker shooting torpedoes into the Death Star vibes. Burn it down.
Go for the throat ScarJo!
It’s gonna take a lot more than that if they want to do it in house. The moat is financial, and it is wide and deep
Also I gotta say their billboard on the 101 outside of SF really irritates me
Immanetizing the eschaton
Rent is not cheap in Walnut Creek. Maybe next door in Concord, but not WC lol
That's character-level n-gram modeling
AI.
It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.
It's a baby. We can regulate it.
I just want to point out that you have noted this falsehood like five times in this thread already. Noncompetes have been unenforceable in California since 2008, and for over a month federally.
Schmidhüber
Umass. The student center/hotel is all concrete. A cool brutalist structure from one angle, but it feels a little inhumane on the inside. My favorite part is the grad lounge/bar with no windows and blood red concrete walls.
AI is not a baby. That is an anthropomorphism. It is a very large field of mostly unrelated algorithms. Of which, one is getting all the attention at the moment.
Y’all need to go back to school. I’m so tired.