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“programmer wanted his Roomba to stop bumping into furniture…he connected the Roomba to a neural net that rewarded speed but punished it when the front bumper collided with something. The machine accommodated these objectives by always driving backward.”
https://t.co/bU0VTIqHD4

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A group of sufficiently motivated machine learning engineers is indistinguishable from a guild of wizards.

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Speaking of @OpenAI, today they release Point-E: a #GenerativeAI approach which produces 3D models in only 1-2 minutes on a single GPU.

Paper: https://t.co/2Ijtx0dKv1 https://t.co/QK8KpcxCFP

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1/ As I often said, the impact of things should be measured in years, not days.
It doesn’t matter if Mastodon grew to 2.5M active users in a month (where, BTW, people spend the whole time talking about Twitter) if they will all be back in 6 months.

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2/ Also notice that very few that have amassed millions of followers (the people that you want to read about on Twitter) can afford the luxury of giving up years of investments to grow an audience and go to Mastodon, hoping that the aforementioned audience will follow.

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3/ Thirdly, as usual, nobody takes into account the friction. Using Mastodon is phenomenally complicated. People converge towards, and adopt in mass, frictionless systems, not complicated systems.

Eventually, complicated systems lose.

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4/ Finally, Mastodon is not without risks. In fact, those risks are even bigger and multiplicated compared to the risks of a highly visible company that is held accountable by governments, celebrities, and competitors.

Go read this for a taste of it: https://t.co/Px4hGvlwZd

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Fascinating 10min TED Talk on how neuroscientists are trying to decode the specialized skills of insect brains as a viable path to understanding human brain intelligence.

Are insect brains the secret to great #AI?
https://t.co/S2a3C795PK

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I don’t know how many have noticed that @OpenAI has published the details of a new thing: WebGPT – A version of #GPT3 that has access to search engines and is fine-tuned with human feedback to improve answers quality:

https://t.co/PjhTV1Yt9J https://t.co/eLBXgQcFHt