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Rowan Cheung

@rowancheung

I just watched GPT-4 turn a hand-drawn sketch into a functional website. This is insane.

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S.F.’s ‘Bay Lights’ refused to go dark. It took a ‘Mission Impossible’ to literally pull the plug

Heather Knight

@hknightsf

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My latest column: After the old “Bay Lights” light sculpture on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge refused to go dark, its creator determined he had to venture to the bridge’s underbelly to literally pull the plug. I joined him, and the trek did not go as planned.

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Ben Davis, creator of the “Bay Lights,” turned the old, malfunctioning public art...

John Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack

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From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this.

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Tim Zaman

@tim_zaman

Mar 18

Azure/Microsoft released pics of OpenAI's next-gen AI datacenter. This supposedly powers [Chat]GPT* training (inference?). From the pics we can infer most components, power, network/ib topology, layouts, vendors and more. A thread 🧵[1/7]

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Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

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This is the chart that has launched a thousand takes. The conclusion seems obvious: Everything the govt touches goes to infinity in price. Everything pure capitalism touches goes to zero. But there's another way of looking at this graph that dramatically changes the story.

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Apoorva Govind

@Appyg99

Mar 17

Can confirm. Just yesterday, my teammate wrote a custom JSON parser that would have been a slog for 1-2 days within hours using GPT4. GPT4 is like giving each engineer their own intern who does 70-80% of the job. The remaining 30% is constraints & biz logic. Startups are going… Show more

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Flo Crivello

@Altimor

Mar 17

I don’t think people understand how fast AI is changing the game right now. The team is already using GPT-4 to build entire components in 10min that otherwise would have taken us days. We don’t even have experience in the language these components need to be written in!

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Was great to meet

, he’s a tough act to follow but I was able to tie our talks together. Open source, freedom, and agency. #humankindsydney

Matt Webb

@genmon

Mar 17

I made an AI clock for my bookshelves! It composes a new poem every minute using ChatGPT and mysteriously has this enthusiastic vibe which I am totally into instagram.com/p/Cp44-AMNyd9/

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@_akhaliq

alpaca-lora: Code for reproducing the Stanford Alpaca InstructLLaMA result on consumer hardware github: github.com/tloen/alpaca-l

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Kris Kashtanova

@icreatelife

Probably the most eventful week AI has ever seen: Monday: - Stanford releases Alpaca 7B - Google announces Med-PaLM 2 a new medical LLM Tuesday: - OpenAI releases GPT4 - Anthropic releases Claude - Google announces the PaLM API & MakerSuite - Adept raises $350M - Google adds… Show more

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Alex

@alexalbert__

Well, that was fast… I just helped create the first jailbreak for ChatGPT-4 that gets around the content filters every time credit to

@vaibhavk97

for the idea, I just generalized it to make it work on ChatGPT here's GPT-4 writing instructions on how to hack someone's computer

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Jash Dholani

@oldbooksguy

2/ If we waited for peace to create art the first cave painting would still not be made Always some “imminent danger” looking more important than culture Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun”

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So nice to be back in Sydney. See you tomorrow at

@humankindsydney

#humankindsydney

Katherine Boyle

@KTmBoyle

This week will go down as one of the most important weeks in tech history. A step function change in the acceleration of both technology and regulation in a 72 hour window. Buckle up.

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Sam Altman

@sama

here is GPT-4, our most capable and aligned model yet. it is available today in our API (with a waitlist) and in ChatGPT+. openai.com/research/gpt-4 it is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it.

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Zenna Tavares

@ZennaTavares

Feb 1

Introducing AutumnSynth, a step toward automating scientific discovery through program synthesis. AutumnSynth synthesizes the source code of a video game from seconds of play. paper: basis.ai/publications/a Blog: basis.ai/blog/autumn/ Why do this? How does it work?🧵

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Basis

@BasisOrg

Feb 1

At #popl2023 w/ @MITCoCoSci @ZuckermanBrain @DataSciColumbia, we presented AutumnSynth, AutumnSynth synthesizes the source code of a video game from seconds of play. It's a step toward automated scientific discovery through program synthesis Blog/paper: basis.ai/blog/autumn/

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Linus (●ᴗ●)

@LinusEkenstam

Here are some incredible things people are already doing with GPT-4 It’s been less than 3.5 hours 🧵 A thread

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Ethan Mollick

@emollick

🤯🤯Well this is something else. GPT-4 passes basically every exam. And doesn't just pass... The Bar Exam: 90% LSAT: 88% GRE Quantitative: 80%, Verbal: 99% Every AP, the SAT...

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Artem Andreenko

@miolini

Stanford Alpaca, a new LLM player, has been fine-tuned with Nvidia A100 x 8 for 3 hours ($100) and augmented with OpenAI GPT-3 ($500). This model can be used on a single GPU or CPU, such as Apple Silicone or Raspberry PI, and offers performance similar to crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alp… Show more

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

@ESYudkowsky

I don't think people realize what a big deal it is that Stanford retrained a LLaMA model, into an instruction-following form, by **cheaply** fine-tuning it on inputs and outputs **from text-davinci-003**. It means: If you allow any sufficiently wide-ranging access to your AI… Show more

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Lyn Alden

@LynAldenContact

Years ago, The Narrow Bank tried to do a business model of just taking deposits and holding 100% of them in reserves at the Fed. It would basically be the safest possible bank if allowed to exist, but they have not been granted a Fed account. They even went to court over it.

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Peter Todd/mempoolfullrbf=1

@peterktodd

Custodia Bank is really interesting: all they want to do is offer non-fractional banking to customers to give them the option of ~zero risk banking. Yet for some reason the regulators refuse to allow this. Why?

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Custodia Bank ™

@custodiabank

STATEMENT BY @custodiabank on today's announcements by federal bank regulators:

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Islamic Banking and Finance Definition: History and Example

Itamar Golan

@ItakGol

Mar 11

Introducing OpenChatKit 🚀 - The first open-source alternative to ChatGPT! A team of ex-OpenAI fellows at Together have released a 20B chat-GPT model, fine-tuned for chat using EleutherAI's GPT-NeoX-20B, with over 43 million instructions under the Apache-2.0 license. >>>

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Just thinking out loud. 😄

I'm fully aware that credit is responsible for modern human progress, but perhaps we could delineate it more from deposits? Financial markets are much more sophisticated now than when banks were only source of credit.

Seems like there might be an opportunity for a secular version of that, no interest or "gambling," but none of the other cultural restrictions around pork, alcohol, LGBT+, etc.

I'm also reading today about

investopedia.com

Islamic banking refers to a banking system that is based on the principles of Islamic law (Sharia law) and guided by Islamic economics.

I've been told by a number of founders of neobanks they read this back in the day and it inspired them! I should blog more.

Seems like a good time to re-share my 2009 essay, "Starting a Bank" aka Safebank: ma.tt/2009/08/starti An interesting evolution of this would be a non-fractional reserve bank, funded by subscriptions, and skeleton staff.

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Starting a Bank

I often get asked something along the line of, “If you weren’t leading Automattic, what would you work on?” There’s not a single answer to this question; the answer changes …

Torque

@TheTorqueMag

Registration for Developer-Focused Conference DE{CODE} Open

Y’all don’t want to miss this!

@photomatt

and

@matias_ventura

were just announced as keynote speakers for

@wpengine

’s free #WPEDecode conference next week!

torquemag.io

The developer-first conference, DE{CODE} is back for another year in April. Registration is now open for the free event.

Zak Kukoff

@zck

Mar 12

Live shot from Hayes Valley

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Matt Mullenweg

@photomatt

Mar 12

In the SVB situation I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion of the fortress balance sheets of Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. They have more cash than most countries. If the coffers are passed, would be nice to see tech protect its own industry.

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Chris Bakke

@ChrisJBakke

Mar 10

Running a company: 2020: can you survive a pandemic? 2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds. 2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now. 2023: nice job! okay, we’re going to take away your bank account.

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Elijah Woolery

@ewoolery

Mar 11

We’ll then jump into interviews with people like

@tfadell

, who co-invented the iPod and iPhone—

@kevinbethune

, the author of Reimagining Design—

@photomatt

, founding developer of WordPress and CEO of Automattic—and

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, the SVP and Head of Product Design at the New… Show more

Perry E. Metzger

@perrymetzger

Mar 10

For those who are unaware: the FDIC is brutally efficient, vastly more than almost any other government agency I can name. On Monday morning, the former Silicon Valley Bank branches will re-open under the name of another bank.

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Roshan Patel

@roshanpateI

Mar 10

My lead investor just texted me this about SVB.

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During his

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Quote by Matt Mullenweg -- "Open source shines in recessionary times"

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Aurooba Ahmed

@aurooba

Mar 9

I cannot say this enough. If you code for the #WordPress block editor, USE the block editor. Learn how it works, how it communicates with the user. Learn how CORE works, without any added stuff. Here's why – a thread 🧵

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Bob Elliott

@BobEUnlimited

Mar 9

Years ago I led research on the GFC and was way out front suggesting trillions in losses, so I know a little something about crummy banks. Getting panicked calls about the risk of SVB deposit losses, a bank with: 1) 15% tier 1 2) 40% LTV 3) 100% deposit liquidity coverage

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