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Update: May 6, 2024 Good news: I’ve updated my Rabbit R1 review to note that the $199 AI device has longer battery life after two post-launch software updates. Bad news: neither update added the missin…

Welcome to the Friday free edition of How They Make Money. Over 100,000 subscribers turn to us for business and investment insights. In case you missed it: 🚖 Tesla: Robotaxi Pivot 🏎️ Formula 1 Economics 📊 Earnings Visuals (3/2024) 🔷 Rubrik IPO: Key Takeaways

You might think that Microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI. But as far as I understand it doesn’t. It has a right to about 49% of a for-profit subsidiary of OpenAI’s profits, up until a very complex point that may require litigation to resolve, but the for-profit hasn’t made any profits, and the for-profit is owned by a non-profit. And I’ll be damned if I can ac…

We are 200 people over our 300-person venue capacity for AI UX 2024, but you can subscribe to our YouTube for the video recaps. Our next event, and largest EVER, is the AI Engineer World’s Fair. See you there! Parental advisory: Adult language used in the first 10 mins of this podcast

Epistemology is, roughly speaking, the study of how we know what know. In the tech world, people sometimes talk about the epistemic health of some systems, asking e.g., whether people getting the right information and evaluating the right way. An epistemic clusterfuck

Top News Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models Reka AI introduces Vibe-Eval, a new evaluation suite designed to measure the progress of multimodal language models. Researchers from the company have created a set of challenging prompts to test the capabilities of these models, particularly focu…

Welcome to The Love Drive, now with more words I sent this email to my subscribers, but I think sharing it with you is important, too. It’s about email lists, the shitty parts of social media, my plans for this publication, and what you can expect from me.

Hey there, As you’re reading this I’m on a 24-hour personal quiet retreat, which is why I’m actually writing this on the Thursday morning before… I’m keeping it simple: a few items for working out, prayer + journaling, three books to prepare for whatever reading mood hits, and stretchy pants for either going on a hike or taking a nap (or both) depending …

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OK so this doesn’t count as a real post. I’m just a little intrigued here. In the Gospel of John (the weird gospel) Jesus washes the feet of his disciples, including Judas. This has been mined to great effect, particularly by those who suggest that in fact Judas was the greatest disciple because he was the one who was willing to do what it took to provo…

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this (and comment on posts!) please subscribe. Chinese researchers build a hard benchmark for multimodal understanding:

Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a nice weekend. I got kale blossoms at the farmer’s market yesterday and made this pasta that looks like fairy food:

The most annoying thing about the HS2 debate is that some people still don’t know what the new railway line is actually for. This is partly the fault of branding. Even though it’s called High Speed 2, the core purpose of the line is (or was supposed to be

“A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to…

Censoring China’s Great Famine — the worst famine in human history is believed to have occurred under Mao with 15 to 50 million dead. I asked chatgpt4 to make paintings of historical famines. The four separate requests were: 1) Haunting painting of Mao’s Famine

ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.netI have not been running enough of the work of Sabrina Wallace aka Psinergy, who has been instrumental in unraveling the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) component of the Death Shot. She explains, "The nanotechnology has an internal networking called the

Hey there, Digital Writers! In the past 12 months, I've written over 100 AI prompts for Write With AI. Here are 3 quick lessons I've learned to help you get better results faster with your prompts (and a prompt to help you write your own lessons learned post too):

Anyone keeping up with Kendrick Lamar vs Drake? Many Brands are Drake, starting with solutions that people want. After Success, they try to not focus on product, instead do the PR and Event runs. You know the Aftermath. Before we begin, You can access the newsletter archive and support my work and Discord community by simply taking an action below:

How do you convince the world that your ideas and business might ultimately be worth $7 trillion dollars? Partly by getting some great results, partly by speculating about unlimited potential, and partly by downplaying and ignoring inconvenient truths.

What is the mysterious impressive new ‘gpt2-chatbot’ from the Arena? Is it GPT-4.5? A refinement of GPT-4? A variation on GPT-2 somehow? A new architecture? Q-star? Someone else’s model? Could be anything. It is so weird that this is how someone chose to present that model.

WHAT TUCKER AND GREG REESE DO NOT REALIZE is that AI has not just emerged on this planet but has been here for hundreds if not millions of years possibly for all time. SEE THE GREG REESE VIDEO LINKED HERE The evidence is to be found in ancient history and artifacts going back to Atlantis and in the Falkland Wars (black goo as it is called) which is prob…

One of the most common questions I get about generative AI is, "How do I get what I want from AI,” or “how do I get something that doesn't look like it was created by AI?" During these conversations, I've noticed a few common gaps or misconceptions that can be helpful to overcome, not only in generating images but also in anything that requires effective…

Top News Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR Generative AI, which have already revolutionized areas such as art and programming, are now making significant strides in biotechnology. A new A.I. system developed by the Berkeley-based startup Profluent has been designed to create blueprints for novel gene editors by employing methods …