Year: 2022

Now, Karlo, which was very popular among the #AI community yesterday (well done, Kakao Brain), only produces 256x256px images. So somebody, obviously, thought about using the #stablediffusion2 upscaler to improve the situation.

Here’s Stable Karlo:
https://t.co/XBozx0Foze

@hardmaru @GoogleAI @Google After reaching a certain scale, any IT vendor (or any corp) switches modality & pace from growth to risk management.

Legal, PR/AR, Marketing…there’s an infinite number of people that are there with the sole purpose of mitigating risk.

Google risks 1000x the lawsuits of OpenAI

@hardmaru @GoogleAI @Google the domino effect of not doing enough risk mitigation is devastating.

Large language models represent the first tangible existential risk for Google in 2+ decades. If they release them without safeguards, it might destroy them. If they don’t release them, it might destroy them.

@hardmaru @GoogleAI @Google Worldwide govs are just waiting for this sort of thing as an excuse for further scrutiny & regulation. Which would impact the share price. Which impacts the ability to attract & retain talents.

Risk mitigation is incredibly frustrating for builders as it leads to paralysis but

I’m glad @umarshakir mentioned bannerTime in his article.
And I’m glad because, given the connections & influence of @verge, maybe he could ask @Apple what replaces “defaults write https://t.co/ceGBjvAE7I.notificationcenterui bannerTime xy” in Ventura.

https://t.co/L66IrHS4FS

This thing that we cannot change the banner notifications timeout and/or we cannot have 3rd party apps managing macOS notifications drives me crazy.

Dec 22, 9pm, central London: very few people around, restaurants and bars half empty.

Usually, the city would be a string of parties with drunk people overflowing every pub from noon. Today, it look more like COVID lockdown.

Large language models will threaten many types of apps. Even in places where you wouldn’t think #AI makes a difference. All it’ll take is enough people to have access to an open source model. >

A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business https://t.co/k9sC3O7mIg

ChatGPT owner OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue by 2024 https://t.co/hldmjaOIHN

In a world where #GenerativeAI creates an infinite supply of aesthetically pleasing and credible assets (images, videos, music, 3D, text) at zero/nearly zero cost, where is the competitive advantage?