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This article is essentially a damaging self-fulfilling prophecy camouflaging as analysis. The world is full of turnarounds, and stories where "mistakes" turn out to be happy accidents: "maybe so, maybe not."

if you're into these sort of things, check out "Hainbach" on Youtube.

GPTs are fairly limited right now, but that doesn't mean you can't build fun things composably on top of them...

I - a non technical ignoramus who can't code - made a "universal retro game console" on it on a Friday night:

https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1723297340306469371

In order to play, you first prompt up a generative game cartridge on glif.app (FD: I'm a co-founder): https://glif.app/@fab1an/glifs/clotu9ul2002vl90fh6cmpjw0

Like, "tokyo dogsitter simulator". Glif will generate the "cartridge" - an image - that you paste into the GPT to play: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-3p94K4Djb-console-gpt

(you can also browse thousands of games that users have already made and play any of them in the GPT!)

Phones and photography are banned in many Berlin clubs - they either lock your phone away at the entrance or put a sticker on the camera. That's why you barely see any footage from inside Berghain anywhere...

I've been thinking a lot about what constitutes "AI-native". In this "blog", I'm exploring this question by turning the blog post itself into something you can prompt and change as you read it.

The described step function changes are super apt and mostly overlooked by the pure hype crowd (although the step functions enabled by AI should really be what the main hype ought to be about!)

That said, once you get into the step function changes, the GPT-wrapper accusation might quickly become akin to a "AWS-wrapper" one, with traditional moats getting more important than AI-native ones.

We've had internet-enabled businesses without technical moats (but very real other moats, be it UX, social platform effects or a great b2b sales process) for the longest time, and might just see the same thing play out in AI native land

The way the author summarizes his own study in this thread borders on misinformation. You could actually take their findings and write the opposite headline, which would more accurately reflect their actual research results:

"Critics claim that models such as Stable Diffusion act like modern collage tools, recreating copyrighted and sensitive material.

Yet, our new paper shows that this behaviour is exceedingly rare, recreating copies in less than 0,00006% of 175M test cases."

Hoping for a quick sane ruling here. The whole thing is written in a way that clearly isn't interested in the fundamental reality of the technology, and calling it a "collage tool" is just manipulatively wrong.

What exactly are you struggling with? The main challenge with Midjourney is to open up a broader style pallete, while the out of the box vanilla results are usually amazing in v4.

It's surprising to see that there are liberal proponents of this. You don't have to be a raging libertarian to see the risks of unlocking this much financial reach for governments. We (in the West) may now mostly live under reasonable governments, but there's obviously no guarantee that this won't change (including towards your <current political opponents>), and implementing social credit score systems and other dystopian things would be much easier under CBDC than it currently is?

amazing work!

Curious how you cloned the voices - tortoise? I've previously tried Herzog, but couldn't quite train the German accent...

I guess in the case of Oracle, the answer is most likely "a lawyer" :D

This is a GREAT resource, thanks for posting.

I feel the advent of GPT-3 / Codex and the power that comes with it has been surprisingly underestimated - maybe because the folks who would benefit most from it (people who don't write code, like myself) haven't really caught up with it, while the ones using it (mostly people who do write code) maybe don't see the immediate benefits as much (and maybe are a little bit concerned about what this will mean to their economic position in all this...?)

I've played around a ton with simple GPT-3 code over the last few weeks and am in total awe of the possibilities this opens up to folks like me (who don't write code)

E.g. I had GPT-3 write me app script integrations of itself (!) and stablediffusino into a Google Sheet, allowing me to build a massive sandbox playground for various prototyping experiments.

Here's a thread on that process if you're curious: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1577416649514295297

If I bought a point and shoot, it would probably the Ricoh GR series. Super classic format and amazing sensor + lense.

I feel that NFT pricing exuberance (or lack thereof) is distracting both critics and even fans from the core innovation here - 1. the capacity to signify a digital original and 2. to decentrally organize ownership (though it's more like possession) of these items.

The ultimate question for crypto as a whole is whether the mass market wants digital possession that transcends a single centrally managed database. Personally am convinced we'll get there, but the onboarding mustn't happen through speculation, but specific unique utility, mostly interoperability/composability.

Here’s why: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1565726070963408896...

That said, SALT will be 100% open to anyone, regardless of whether they’re using crypto or not

The pace of the OS development around Stable Diffusion is nothing but mindblowing, and I can't wait to see what we'll be able to to do in just 6 months from now.

The possibilities for non-skeuomorphic media format is pretty insane, especially once we get into animation territory.

I've been using Midjourney and SD to create a sci-fi filmverse called SALT, here's some details about how I put together, including all available "episodes": https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1565085199322456069

I think most are vastly underestimating the impact of Synthetic AI media - this is at least as big as the invention of film/photography (century-level shift) and maybe as big as the invention of writing (millenia-level shift). Once you really think through the consequences of the collapse of idea and execution, you likely to tend think the latter...

What we're seeing now are toy-era seeds for what's possible - e.g. I've been making a completely Midjourney-generated "interactive" film called SALT: https://twitter.com/SALT_VERSE/status/1536799731774537733

That would have been completely impossible just a few months ago. Incredibly exciting to think what we'll be able to do just one year from now..

Based no how they mostly seem to be used in Berlin, scooters are predominantly a joyride thing for teenage to 20-something boys, doubling as status signaling given their relatively high costs (for this demographic)

As a middle-aged dude, I find them quite awkward to navigate and much prefer a car, and I have literally never seen an older person use them. Are people commuting with those? I guess it happens occassionally, but the predominant use case, at least in Germany, seems just-for-fun cruising. Probably not a powerful or frequent enough thing to justify lofty valuations, and given the externalities (cluttering sidewalks, or folks having to fish them out of lakes and rivers) probably a net negative for society, too.

Wouldn't like to see them banned out of principle, but I assume it'd make sense for cities to ask providers for some upfront deposit in case the provider can't ensure proper clean up etc...

DALL-E has that quality, yes - I did a project where I tried to recreate my own photographs with DALL-E, which shows both its potential and limitations right now: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1551663900776595461

(obviously ignoring the potential to conjure things you cannot photograph...)

"photography is a novelty abused for attention, it's not ready for primetime and cannot replace a great painter"

Amazed we haven't seen more DALL-E / Midjourney on HN. Probably the most astonishing new tech I've used since booting up a computer in the 90s.

Just generating images is barely doing the tools justice though - you can create entire mini movies with it, like SALT (a 70s sci-fi adventure happening on Twitter): https://twitter.com/SALT_VERSE/status/1536799731774537733

DALL-E's inpainting feature is incredibly powerful to generate very large scenes: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1545752145273802752

Hard to believe that we're only beginning to scratch the surface here...

Yep, seems like it!

The occassional existential reminder that it's Very Bad to be so dependent on a single platform....when Twitter goes down, my first instinct is to frantically search Twitter for information on the outage, putting me briefly into an unfun recursive loop.

Content made for machines serving humans made by machines pretending to be human

There is a realization in your future that all the amazing internet things you've been yearning for are actually in a specific corner of crypto - the people, the projects, the culture, it's all there. It's alas sometimes hard to see from the outside, where one can easily be fooled into thinking that crypto is just the ape pictures and scams.

I love how he's basically describing a GAN, incidentally a super apt analogy for how human creativity seems to work more generally...

I'd suggest to get a really great hardware synth to learn on - if you don't like it, the secondary market is usually active enough to sell it at minimal loss, and if you do like it, you immediately have a really nice instrument.

If you just want to learn monophonic synthesis with an amazing sounding synth, geta Moog Grandmother for around 1k. You can buy used and sell used, too.

Been skipping breakfast for about 5-6 years now, and it's had a really positive effect on energy and weight, plus helps me keep IBS in check, especially when combined with minimal sugar intake.

But the by far best thing is to REALLY enjoy a nice lunch when you've been actually hungry before. Turns out I had completely forgotten what hunger feels like before doing IF, and it's actually a pleasurable feeling when you know you're about to break your fast with a great meal.

Before IF, I would often have lunch "because it is lunch time" and didn't particularly enjoy the food. Very different when you haven't eaten for 16 hours.

Yeah, they're great, but definitely not quite perfect / magical. Another thing I noticed is that using the noise cancelling ocassionally gives me terrible, luckily short-lived tinnitus. Never encountered that with other (over or on ear) noise cancelling devices.

I'd say you owe it to yourself to use some play money to really just play with it for the sake of learning and playing. Worst case you'll continue to think it may not be worth it in which case you've lost some money on some NFT but have gained knowledge in return. I predict something will happen though, and you might find that the space is actually extremely interesting.