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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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Prior to the Great Disembedding, cultural systems were woven into the living fabric of a people, into their social environment and natural ecology. The people, having been raised in these ideas and thus taking them for granted, did not see the need to justify or universalize their beliefs. Memes (or [memeplexes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memeplex)) only flourished if they helped the tribe flourish (e.g. helped them forage more efficiently, made them better fighters, etc.); gene-culture coevolution was tightly coupled.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
This "AI debate" is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and date to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing.
The #OpenAI Soap-Opera Hijacked the Attention of Millions of Productive...
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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