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Social media was the “first contact” between A.I. and humanity, and humanity lost. “First contact” has given us the bitter taste of things to come. In social media, primitive A.I. was used not to *create* content, but to *curate* user-generated content. The A.I. behind our news feeds is still choosing which words, sounds and images reach our retinas and eardrums, based on selecting those that will get the most virality, the most reaction, and the most engagement.
If We Don’t Master A.I., It Will Master Us
New York Times
The corporations and machines that replace them will never be bound to the land by the sense of birthright and continuity, or by the love that enforces care. They will be bound by the rule of efficiency, which takes thought only of the volume of the year’s produce, and takes no thought of the life of the land, not measurable in pounds or dollars, which will assure the livelihood and the health of the coming generations.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Expectation for Google Gemini is now ridiculously high. In contrast, all <a href="https://twitter.com/Meta">@Meta</a> needs to do to impress us is simply open-sourcing Llama-3.
Gemini has to check off at least ONE of the following:
- 120% IQ of textual GPT-4; or
- 100% of GPT-4 but at half the cost or 2x speed of turbo; or
- 100% of visual GPT-4; or
- Natively support long videos.
AND ship the API in Q1 of 2024!
It's about time that DeepMind recovers the glory of AlphaGo in 2016. I'm looking forward to it.
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