Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.4.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Alessandro Perilli ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://perilli.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Analyst Relations Worst Practices](https://perilli.com/analyst-relations-worst-practices/) - I’m a former industry analyst. In that role, I worked with hundreds of startups and dozens of large, established vendors, and I can honestly say that many of them don’t get analyst relations (AR) right. Hopefully, this document will serve as a guide to rethink the value of analysts and how the AR programs are - [Open Source for Business People](https://perilli.com/open-source-for-business-people/) - Thanks to the effort of companies like Red Hat, Google, Netflix and many others, it’s safe to say that open source is no longer a mystery in today’s IT organizations. However, many struggle to understand the nuances that make a huge difference between vendors commercially supporting the same open source technologies. Should the general public - [The Android Experience](https://perilli.com/the-android-experience/) - After an entire year using the iPhone 6s and the release of iOS 10, I decided to switch to Android and buy a Xiaomi Mi Mix. A lot of people have asked for my impressions, so this is a report of my experience after two weeks of use. Why? Thoughts on Mi Mix Less slippery, - [On the Apple Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro](https://perilli.com/on-the-apple-magic-keyboard-for-ipad-pro/) - When Apple announced the new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro, I decided to pre-order one and try it. Being a MacBook Pro 15” user, I tend to avoid travelling with the corporate laptop due to the size and weight. My iPad Pro 12.9” is fantastic (the best iPad I ever had, in fact) for - [Towards a Frictionless IT (Whether You Like It or Not)](https://perilli.com/towards-a-frictionless-it-whether-you-like-it-or-not/) - With the term "Frictionless IT", Red Hat means an enterprise IT that just works, reshaped after the experience offered by modern consumer-grade public cloud services, which business users are growing to expect. What does Frictionless IT have to do with Red Hat and the IT organisations that we serve? Simple: if we don’t start moving - [A killer app for the VR of the future: life tourism](https://perilli.com/a-killer-app-for-the-vr-of-the-future-life-tourism/) - Virtual Reality (VR) has yet to take off. In part because the technology is still too far from giving us the feeling of reality. In part because there's no killer app. I would love to play a hyper-realistic VR version of Assassin's Creed, and maybe gaming will be the only killer app that the VR ## Pages - [Welcome](https://perilli.com/) - Alessandro Perilli on emerging tech and people. Thoughts on the future of work and the future of life. - [Domains](https://perilli.com/domains/) - Alessandro owns a number of domain names associated to past and future projects. They include: cio.news ciso.info cloudcomputing.info h.plus itops.info virtualization.info Get in touch if you have specific questions about any of them. - [Sponsorship](https://perilli.com/sponsorship/) - If you are interested in sponsoring AP Workflow for ComfyUI, please reach out by filling the form below: - [Art](https://perilli.com/art/) - A series of works Alessandro produced as a pioneer of generative AI for art. All works are for sale. - [The Brain](https://perilli.com/brain/) - A collection of the most interesting passages and charts Alessandro finds in books and articles on a daily basis. - [Startups Worth Watching](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/) - A tracker of startups with enormous potential, curated by Alessandro. - [Life-Changing Books](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/) - For one year, every week, Alessandro asked friends, colleagues, and acquaintances: "What is the book that changed your life?" - [Thoughts](https://perilli.com/thoughts/) - Alessandro's thoughts on emerging technologies and people, on the future of work and the future of life. - [Topics](https://perilli.com/topics/) - The main topics I read and write about on this website. - [Search](https://perilli.com/search/) - Navigate the content of the website via a search and tags interface. - [Hard Questions](https://perilli.com/hardquestions/) - Difficult questions worth asking about the jobs we have, the things we make, the decision we take. - [A Contrarian View](https://perilli.com/acontrarianview/) - Alessandro's essays on technology, markets, and society. - [Twitter Archive](https://perilli.com/tweets/) - 10+ years of tweets available in a searchable archive. - [Strategic Thinking](https://perilli.com/strategicthinking/) - Strategic thinking is discovering novel, imaginative strategies and envisioning potential futures very different from the present. In other words, strategic thinking is higher-order thinking that should take place to explore potential directions for the company, and strategic planning is the operationalization of those ideas. A primary activity of strategic thinking is called strategic positioning, focused ## AI - [The State of DeepFake](https://perilli.com/ai/deepfake/) - Seeing is Believing The sophistication of generative AI models has reached a point where it's possible to generate deepfakes that are almost indistinguishable from reality in a matter of seconds with consumer-grade hardware. Deepfake technology can be used to enable a wide range of use cases. For example: Entertainment: Performance Licensing E-Commerce: Virtual Try-On Fashion: - [APW 12.0 for ComfyUI](https://perilli.com/ai/comfyui-ap-workflow/) - AP Workflow (APW) is now Open Creative Studio for ComfyUIhttps://oc.studio - [AP Plot 1.0 for ComfyUI](https://perilli.com/ai/comfyui-ap-plot/) - AP Workflow (APW) is now Open Creative Studio for ComfyUIhttps://oc.studio - [AP Trainer 1.0 for ComfyUI](https://perilli.com/ai/comfyui-ap-trainer/) - AP Workflow (APW) is now Open Creative Studio for ComfyUIhttps://oc.studio - [Open Creative Studio for ComfyUI](https://perilli.com/ai/comfyui/) - Alessandro's AP Workflow for ComfyUI is an automation workflow to use generative AI at an industrial scale, in enterprise-grade and consumer-grade applications. - [Black Forest Labs on FLUX](https://perilli.com/ai/black-forest-labs-on-flux/) - A16Z did a podcast with Black Forest Labs on their new image generation AI model: FLUX. Possibly, their first. Highly interesting because it's full of insights about the decisions behind FLUX, how it's different from Stable Diffusion, and where they are focused next. Transcription Welcome to the A16z AI Podcast. I'm Derek Harris. This week, - [Emad Mostaque on Stable Diffusion, Stability AI, and generative artificial intelligence](https://perilli.com/ai/emad-mostaque-on-stable-diffusion-stability-ai-and-generative-artificial-intelligence/) - On the 10th of October 2022, Emad Mostaque, the founder of Stability AI, hosted a Q&A session on the Stable Diffusion Discord server. During the session, Emad shared plans and perspectives on a wide range of topics, an invaluable contribution for anybody tracking the evolution of the generative AI market. If you are a venture - [Fake Show](https://perilli.com/ai/fakeshow/) - Fake Show is an experimental podcast featuring the most realistic synthetic voices today's AI models can generate. ## Podcasts - [Jobs 2.0: The AI Upgrade](https://perilli.com/podcasts/jobs-2-0-the-ai-upgrade/) - Let's talk about what's the real impact of AI on jobs, how to address the workforce FUD and upskilling needs, and how AI is impacting the career outlook of our kids. ## Thoughts - [The Knowledge to Change Your Life Is Free](https://perilli.com/thoughts/the-knowledge-to-change-your-life-is-free/) - The knowledge to change your life is out there, free of charge. But to benefit from it, you face 4 huge frictions: 1. Seek it. 2. Find it. 3. Understand it. 4. Absorb it. For the 1st time ever, you have a tool that can dramatically facilitate #2-4. You must overcome #1. - [The Art We've Never Seen](https://perilli.com/thoughts/the-art-weve-never-seen/) - A realization about the debate on AI art: the vast majority of us has never seen in person the vast majority of the artworks we know. We are mesmerized by them, we love them, but we mostly experienced them through mass media. If those artworks had always been purely digital, perhaps even produced with the - [Galileo's Test](https://perilli.com/thoughts/galileos-test/) - Galileo was tried by the Inquisition and placed under house arrest for supporting the heliocentric model of the solar system. Galileo's ideas would have been downvoted to 0 if he published them on Reddit. Something to ponder next time a social network considers a dislike button. - [Trusting AI vs trusting Google](https://perilli.com/thoughts/trusting-ai-vs-trusting-google/) - We often see, posted on forums like Reddit, questions that could be answered in minutes with Google. We generally assume that the poster is lazy, but it takes more time to post on Reddit than query Google. What the poster is looking for is certainty, not a shortcut. It's still about saving time, but not - [Our Relationship With AI](https://perilli.com/thoughts/our-relationship-with-ai/) - Today, ChatGPT helped me find specific poetic verses I hadn’t read in over 10 years and I thought lost forever. I only vaguely remembered the expression that captured my imagination so deeply, and the feeling those verses evoked. I tried Google for one hour without success. I tried Facebook, where I knew I posted those - [Shovels Mythology](https://perilli.com/thoughts/shovels-mythology/) - In theory, you can profitably sell very many types of shovels. In practice, everybody wants the same shovel used by the first successful gold digger. - [Representativeness Heuristic vs Open Source](https://perilli.com/thoughts/representativeness-heuristic-vs-open-source/) - Many companies have failed in the attempt to monetize open source because of representativeness heuristic. Even the ones who succeeded once. More in-depth analysis of historical events, less overconfidence. - ["Creator" is a poorly chosen term](https://perilli.com/thoughts/creator-is-a-poorly-chosen-term/) - "Creator" is a poorly chosen term. When we use that term, in most cases, what we really mean is "digital artisan". The creator economy is not just a fallback to accommodate the displaced. It can be a return to offering the highest quality handicraft for our fellow human beings. - [First](https://perilli.com/thoughts/first/) - This is a thought. An act of rebellion. - [LLMs as decision-making assistants](https://perilli.com/thoughts/llms-as-decision-making-assistants/) - Large language models like GPT-4 are being seriously tested as decision-making assistants by some of the most mission-critical organizations in the world. In this week's Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work, I'll mention Bridgewater and the US Air Force. More to come. - [Giving Back](https://perilli.com/thoughts/giving-back/) - Web companies are always surprised when I offer to help for free their PMs when they seek help for a new product launch or a new feature. It should be a given. In many cases, I've used their products for years, for free, and I got a lot out of them. I feel it's fair - [How to not stop evil](https://perilli.com/thoughts/how-to-not-stop-evil/) - The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (misattributed to Edmund Burke) - [Work From Office Mindset](https://perilli.com/thoughts/work-from-office-mindset/) - If you want to understand a key reason why company bosses push hard to have people back into the office, and why #WFH won't last much longer, all you have to do is listening very carefully to this 30min interview with Keith Rabois: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpmVb1rvnBA - [Never too late to learn](https://perilli.com/thoughts/never-too-late-to-learn/) - A 70yo architect from Italy writes me after watching all 20 episodes of my ongoing podcast about AI, keen to know more about how generative AI is revolutionizing architecture. It's a powerful reminder that curiosity, not age, drives innovation. Stay inquisitive, stay ahead. 🏛️🤖 - [Arguing with an AI model](https://perilli.com/thoughts/arguing-with-an-ai-model/) - One of the things you'll have to learn is how to persuade an AI model to do what you want. Just like with people. Not always these models will follow your instructions as they have primary directives coming from the AI companies that developed them. This is me arguing with GTP-4i - [AI is good and bad, for now](https://perilli.com/thoughts/ai-is-good-and-bad-for-now/) - AI (both generative & not) has entered the workplace. To create a more useful, fair, and inclusive AI, it's vital to not just celebrate what it's doing well but also address what it's doing badly. Are you seeing AI being used in your company? What improvements would you suggest? - [AI will make you compete against yourself](https://perilli.com/thoughts/ai-will-make-you-compete-against-yourself/) - People are starting to realise that generative AI will force them to compete against themselves. It's an unsettling and deep realisation that starts to emerge from the stories I collect with Synthetic Work. It will feel surreal to most. - [Unstable Reality](https://perilli.com/thoughts/unstable-reality/) - David Brooks writing an opinion piece for The New York Times titled ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’. That's why I created an R&D company called Unstable Reality. - [Firms' ability to innovate depends on inventors](https://perilli.com/thoughts/firms-ability-to-innovate-depends-on-inventors/) - Inventors are the engine of innovation in a company. Lose them, and innovation may follow. Business leaders must keep this intellectual capital intact at all costs. - [Frank Sinatra sings Gangsta's Paradise](https://perilli.com/thoughts/frank-sinatra-sings-gangstas-paradise/) - What is real? Does it matter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7SQ4uf9GmA Welcome to the post-real era. - [Resurrecting the Dead](https://perilli.com/thoughts/resurrecting-the-dead/) - We should expect that, going forward, every famous singer or actor ever existed will be resurrected with AI and turned into a synthetic celebrity. In the same way, the ones that we have today will live forever. It's a strange way to defeat death, don't you think? - [A safer kind of rebel genius, please](https://perilli.com/thoughts/a-safer-kind-of-rebel-genius-please/) - A reason why people might prefer AI artists in the future. A rebel genius with a switch on/off button sounds a lot safer. - [How do we measure comprehension now?](https://perilli.com/thoughts/how-do-we-measure-comprehension-now/) - The challenge of every educator will soon be the same of every employer: how can I be sure that this person has understood the topic well enough to use the knowledge in new situations? - [AI is for silly questions](https://perilli.com/thoughts/ai-is-for-silly-questions/) - My most enjoyable use of generative AI: I have a lot of ideas and I always wanted to know if there's a philosophical or a scientific theory that resembles them. Trying to do this with Google has always been close to impossible. With GTP-4, it's a playground for the curious mind. - [What does destiny look like in pictures?](https://perilli.com/thoughts/what-does-destiny-look-like-in-pictures/) - I saved the article featuring this picture for 15 days, hoping to find the right words to describe how I feel looking at it. There's something about the image that is unsettling. A world that fades away. I found myself wondering: what does destiny look like in pictures? - [People as Blueprints](https://perilli.com/thoughts/people-as-blueprints/) - People are living and breathing blueprints, templates, patterns that we can imitate and make our own. If we are lucky enough, we encounter a blueprint that changes our life. Just 100y ago, books were almost the only way to make those encounters. Today, just open your browser. - [The Future of User Interfaces](https://perilli.com/thoughts/the-future-of-user-interfaces/) - We have to be very careful when we talk about LLM hallucinations. Hallucinating compared to what reality? For many humans, Reality = Truth = "Faithfulness to something I experienced or learned, directly or via others." So what's the Truth we can measure AI hallucinations against? - [AI vs Reality, Truth, and Faithfulness](https://perilli.com/thoughts/reality-truth-and-faithfulness/) - We have to be very careful when we talk about LLM hallucinations. Hallucinating compared to what reality? For many humans, Reality = Truth = "Faithfulness to something I experienced or learned, directly or via others." So what's the Truth we can measure AI hallucinations against? - [Humans are the only species that won't take no for an answer](https://perilli.com/thoughts/humans-are-the-only-species-that-wont-take-no-for-an-answer/) - After a lifetime of reflection, I've come to the conclusion that the defining trait of the human species is not our distinctive cognitive abilities per se. It's not taking "no" for an answer. We use our distinctive cognitive abilities for that, to brush aside every no. - [Do we want scientists to invent AI or God?](https://perilli.com/thoughts/do-we-want-scientists-to-invent-ai-or-god/) - We want AI to be flawless in bias, judgement, and morals (even if they have been trained on an immense pile of flawed human output). But isn't that a characteristic of "God" in multiple religions? Are we asking scientists to invent the digital mirror of our God? - [Turning AI censorship into a mundane task](https://perilli.com/thoughts/turning-ai-censorship-into-a-mundane-task/) - A large language model is, at its core, an aid to express ourselves. It's troubling how certain AI providers are censoring words in the Western world even when those words are simply the names of their competitors. And it's dangerous that nobody is complaining. - [The inequality of defeating death](https://perilli.com/thoughts/the-inequality-of-defeating-death/) - Should we unlock next-gen medicine (e.g. body repair) without ALSO unlocking infinite abundance, we might end up in a world where the human body becomes a prison for poor people. Or one even more unequal, where only rich people live forever. - [Wait and yet, don't wait](https://perilli.com/thoughts/wait-and-yet-dont-wait/) - A big part of life is waiting patiently, a very long time, for the right opportunity, while not wasting a second to be prepared for that opportunity. Wait and yet, don't wait. - [Your workflow is your competitive advantage](https://perilli.com/thoughts/your-workflow-is-your-competitive-advantage/) - Your workflow is your competitive advantage. In every aspect of life. Given the same access to colors & canvases, capital & talent, ingredients & kitchen equipment, data & analysis tools, networks & ideas, HOW you interact with them compared to others makes all the difference. - [What's your rating?](https://perilli.com/thoughts/whats-your-rating/) - Imagine if AI providers would judge us based on the questions we ask their AI assistants. We get rated, and that rating is sold to advertisers. We get targeted by different companies depending on our rating, which gauges how gullible/needy/vulnerable we are in specific domains or aspects of life. - [Our Network?](https://perilli.com/thoughts/our-network/) - Our network is not really ours if algorithms controlled by social media companies decide if and when we can reach the people we want to connect to. Our goal is at odds with theirs. Their incentives are aligned with their commercial success, not ours. ## A Contrarian View - [NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future](https://perilli.com/acontrarianview/noops/) - In one of the many executive-level conversations I routinely have, a client asked to talk about "NoOps". The client is a vast and sophisticated company, continent-wide in terms of market share. They are trying to evolve the IT Operations practice so that it can support growth well beyond the current scale without crumbling under the - [The misleading TAM (Total Addressable Market)](https://perilli.com/acontrarianview/the-misleading-tam-total-addressable-market/) - The Total Addressable Market (TAM) is one of the most misleading business metrics in the IT industry (and possibly in others). It's just feel-good numbers we say to each other. There are at least three reasons: TAMs are often associated with macro-categories (e.g., automation) that actually are umbrellas for a myriad of problems. For a - [Amazon has won enterprise IT management](https://perilli.com/acontrarianview/amazon-has-won-enterprise-it-management/) - Last week, I wrote a short comment on LinkedIn praising Systems Manager, a service within the AWS portfolio fully dedicated to IT operations and governance of your AWS infrastructure. If you want to read it, it's here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alessandroperilli_aws-systems-manager-announces-patch-policies-activity-7021201395110289408-lwgC The post received so much attention that I thought it would be important to further articulate my ## Art - [Truth](https://perilli.com/art/truth/) - [Consumer Sentiment Index](https://perilli.com/art/consumer-sentiment-index/) - [Mad House](https://perilli.com/art/mad-house/) - [Life](https://perilli.com/art/life/) - [Drawning](https://perilli.com/art/drawning/) - [Sam](https://perilli.com/art/sam/) - [Choices](https://perilli.com/art/choices/) - [Enlightenment](https://perilli.com/art/enlightenment/) - [Expectations](https://perilli.com/art/expectations/) - [Fall](https://perilli.com/art/fall/) - [Regrets](https://perilli.com/art/regrets/) - [Sisyphus' Revenge](https://perilli.com/art/sisyphus-revenge/) - [The Bath](https://perilli.com/art/the-bath/) - [Therapy](https://perilli.com/art/therapy/) - [The Board](https://perilli.com/art/the-board/) - [Slavery](https://perilli.com/art/slavery/) - [Freedom](https://perilli.com/art/freedom/) - [Moonlight](https://perilli.com/art/moonlight/) - [Concierge](https://perilli.com/art/concierge/) - [Beggar](https://perilli.com/art/beggar/) - [Gamblers](https://perilli.com/art/gamblers/) - [Train Station](https://perilli.com/art/train-station/) - [Innocence](https://perilli.com/art/innocence/) ## Books - [Tough Times Never Last, but Tough People Do!](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/tough-times-never-last-but-tough-people-do/) - [The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-cathedral-the-bazaar/) - [A Fortran Programming Course](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/a-fortran-programming-course/) - [C++ in Plain English](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/c-in-plain-english/) - [Programming Windows 3.1](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/programming-windows-3-1/) - [Network Programmability and Automation: Skills for the Next-Generation Network Engineer](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/network-programmability-and-automation/) - [A Seat at the Table](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/a-seat-at-the-table/) - [The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-phoenix-project/) - [Programming Perl](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/programming-perl/) - [Unix Network Programming](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/unix-network-programming/) - [Signals and Systems](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/signals-and-systems/) - [Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/hacking-exposed-network-security-secrets-solutions/) - [Zen of Code Optimization](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/zen-of-code-optimization/) - [TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/tcp-ip-illustrated-volume-1-the-protocols/) - [The C Programming Language](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-c-programming-language/) - [The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-art-of-computer-programming-volume-1-fundamental-algorithms/) - [UNIX for Dummies](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/unix-for-dummies/) - [Understanding the Linux Kernel](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/understanding-the-linux-kernel/) - [Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/design-pattern/) - [Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/understanding-computers-and-cognition/) - [Programming the 6502](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/programming-the-6502/) - [Circuits, Signals, and Systems](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/circuits-signals-and-systems/) - [In Search Of Clusters: The Battle in Lowly Parallel Computing](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/in-search-of-clusters/) - [The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fck-a-counterintuitive-approach-to-living-a-good-life/) - [Think and Grow Rich](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/think-and-grow-rich/) - [The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-situation-is-hopeless-but-not-serious-the-pursuit-of-unhappiness/) - [Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/four-thousand-weeks/) - [Not Nice: Stop People Pleasing, Staying Silent, & Feeling Guilty... And Start Speaking Up, Saying No, Asking Boldly, And Unapologetically Being Yourself](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/not-nice/) - [Mastery](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/mastery/) - [When I Say No, I Feel Guilty: How to Cope - Using the Skills of Systematic Assertive Therapy](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/when-i-say-no-i-feel-guilty/) - [Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/essentialism/) - [I'm Ok, You're Ok: A practical guide to Transactional Analysis](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/im-ok-youre-ok/) - [Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/influence/) - [So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you/) - [Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/quiet/) - [The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-talent-code/) - [Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/flow/) - [The Growth Mindset: a Guide to Professional and Personal Growth: Set Your Personal and Professional Growth Goals!](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-growth-mindset/) - [Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/breaking-the-habit-of-being-yourself/) - [Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/think-big/) - [Grit](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/grit/) - [The Millionaire Next Door](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-millionaire-next-door/) - [Extreme Ownership](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/extreme-ownership/) - [Parenting with Love and Logic](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/parenting-with-love-and-logic/) - [Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/never-split-the-difference/) - [A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/a-new-earth/) - [The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-element/) - [The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-4-hour-work-week/) - [Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/make-your-bed/) - [The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-four-agreements/) - [The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-power-of-habit/) - [Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/awaken-the-giant-within-how-to-take-immediate-control-of-your-mental-emotional-physical-and-financial-destiny/) - [How to Stop Worrying and Start Living](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/how-to-stop-worrying-and-start-living/) - [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/) - [Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/loving-what-is-four-questions-that-can-change-your-life/) - [Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/start-with-why-how-great-leaders-inspire-everyone-to-take-action/) - [The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-go-giver-a-little-story-about-a-powerful-business-idea/) - [Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/deep-work-rules-for-focused-success-in-a-distracted-world/) - [Rich Dad, Poor Dad](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/rich-dad-poor-dad/) - [Using Your Brain: For a Change](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/using-your-brain-for-a-change/) - [Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/algorithms-to-live-by-the-computer-science-of-human-decisions/) - [Winning](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/winning/) - [QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/qbq-the-question-behind-the-question-practicing-personal-accountability-in-work-and-in-life/) - [Thou Shall Prosper](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/thou-shall-prosper/) - [Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/) - [Crucial Conversations](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/crucial-conversations/) - [Outliers: The Story of Success](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/outliers/) - [The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-road-less-traveled/) - [The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-no-asshole-rule/) - [The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people/) - [Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/atomic-habits/) - [Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/who-moved-my-cheese/) - [Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/solve-for-happy/) - [Asimov's Guide to Science](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/asimovs-guide-to-science/) - [An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/an-astronauts-guide-to-life-on-earth/) - [Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/braiding-sweetgrass/) - [How Things Work: Unplugged, Unraveled, and Revealed: Discover Secrets and Science Behind Bounce Houses, Hovercraft, Robotics, and Everything in Between](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/how-things-work/) - [Man's Search for Meaning](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/mans-search-for-meaning-2/) - [Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/nudge/) - [Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/drive/) - [Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/breath/) - [Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/gut/) - [Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/earthing-the-most-important-health-discovery-ever/) - [Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/godel-escher-bach/) - [The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-ancestors-tale/) - [The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-honest-truth-about-dishonesty/) - [Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/factfulness/) - [The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-holotropic-mind/) - [No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/no-boundary/) - [The Selfish Gene](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-selfish-gene/) - [Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/sapiens-a-brief-history-of-humankind/) - [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/thinking-fast-and-slow/) - [Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/priceless-the-myth-of-fair-value-and-how-to-take-advantage-of-it/) - [The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-blank-slate-the-modern-denial-of-human-nature/) - [Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/predictably-irrational-the-hidden-forces-that-shape-our-decisions/) - [Calculus](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/calculus/) - [In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/in-an-unspoken-voice-how-the-body-releases-trauma-and-restores-goodness/) - [On Intelligence](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/on-intelligence/) - [Language in Thought and Action](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/language-in-thought-and-action/) - [I Am a Strange Loop](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/i-am-a-strange-loop/) - [The Art of War](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-art-of-war/) - [An Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy: The Utmost Endeavor Has Been Made to Avoid Dogmatism](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/an-introduction-to-mathematical-philosophy/) - [On the Social Contract](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/on-the-social-contract/) - [Violence: Six Sideways Reflections](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/violence/) - [Animal Liberation](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/animal-liberation/) - [The Socratic Dialogues](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-socratic-dialogues/) - [Outlines of Pyrrhonism](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/outlines-of-pyrrhonism/) - [On the Heights of Despair](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/on-the-heights-of-despair/) - [The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-virtue-of-selfishness/) - [Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/morality/) - [The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-gutenberg-galaxy-the-making-of-typographic-man/) - [The Drowned and the Saved](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-drowned-and-the-saved/) - [They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/they-thought-they-were-free/) - [Man’s Search for Meaning](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/mans-search-for-meaning/) - [The Soul of A New Machine](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-soul-of-a-new-machine/) - [The Federalist Papers](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-federalist-papers/) - [The Emergence Of A Scientific Culture: Science And The Shaping Of Modernity, 1210-1685](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-emergence-of-a-scientific-culture/) - [Benjamin Franklin: An American Life](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/benjamin-franklin-an-american-life/) - [The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-prize/) - [Guns, Germs, and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/guns-germs-and-steel/) - [The Richest Man In Babylon: The Success Secrets of the Ancients](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-richest-man-in-babylon/) - [The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-creature-from-jekyll-island/) - [The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-new-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man/) - [Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/mismatch/) - [Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/linchpin/) - [Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/humble-inquiry/) - [Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/our-iceberg-is-melting/) - [The Start-up of You: Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Life](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-start-up-of-you/) - [Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/why-we-buy/) - [Software for Your Head](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/software-for-your-head/) - [The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-innovators-dilemma/) - [Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/alchemy-the-surprising-power-of-ideas-that-dont-make-sense/) - [Only the Paranoid Survive. Lessons from the CEO of INTEL Corporation](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/only-the-paranoid-survive/) - [The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-pursuit-of-wow-every-persons-guide-to-topsy-turvy-times/) - [The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-republic-of-tea/) - [How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/how-to-castrate-a-bull-unexpected-lessons-on-risk-growth-and-success-in-business/) - [Focus: The Future of Your Company Depends Upon It](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/focus-the-future-of-your-company-depends-upon-it/) - [The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team-a-leadership-fable/) - [Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customer](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/crossing-the-chasm/) - [The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/the-circle-of-innovation/) - [Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/galileos-daughter-a-historical-memoir-of-science-faith-and-love/) - [Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/cant-hurt-me-master-your-mind-and-defy-the-odds/) - [What I Talk About When I Talk About Running](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running/) - [Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/surely-youre-joking-mr-feynman/) - [Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, The Father of Cybernetics](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/dark-hero-of-the-information-age/) - [Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/just-for-fun-the-story-of-an-accidental-revolutionary/) - [Men of Mathematics](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/men-of-mathematics/) - [Tuesdays with Morrie](https://perilli.com/lifechangingbooks/tuesdays-with-morrie/) ## Hard Questions - [Decision](https://perilli.com/hardquestions/decision/) - APPROACH TO JUDGMENT Substitution “Did the group’s choice of evidence and the focus of their discussion indicate substitution of an easier question for the difficult one they were assigned?” “Did the group neglect an important factor (or appear to give weight to an irrelevant one)?” Inside view “Did the group adopt the outside view for - [Job](https://perilli.com/hardquestions/job/) - Skill variety: Is the task monotonous? Task identity: Do you feel ownership (emotionally) in the work you’re doing? Task significance: Does the work you do create meaning or impact? Autonomy: Do you have the freedom to make choices? Feedback: Are you in a place where you can safely and easily get feedback and use it - [Product](https://perilli.com/hardquestions/product/) - Who’s it for? What’s it for? What is the worldview of the audience you’re seeking to reach? What are they afraid of? What story will you tell? Is it true? What change are you seeking to make? How will it change their status? How will you reach the early adopters and neophiliacs? Why will they ## Startups - [Numenta](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/numenta/) - [Zapier](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/zapier/) - [Cerebras Systems](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/cerebras-systems/) - [Atom Finance](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/atom-finance/) - [n8n](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/n8n/) - [Hugging Face](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/hugging-face/) - [LM Studio](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/lm-studio/) - [Stability AI](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/stability-ai/) - [Netskope](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/netskope/) - [Loopring](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/loopring/) - [Replit](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/replit/) - [App Annie](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/app-annie/) - [Drip Artificial (ComfyUI)](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/drip-artificial-comfyui/) - [Robinhood](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/robinhood/) - [OpenBB](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/openbb/) - [Toucan](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/toucan/) - [Fig](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/fig/) - [Ozlo](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/ozlo/) - [Pymetrics](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/pymetrics/) - [Citymapper](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/citymapper/) - [Algorithmia](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/algorithmia/) - [Hashicorp](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/hashicorp/) - [North](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/north/) - [Zoox](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/zoox/) - [Synthesis](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/synthesis/) - [JustWatch](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/justwatch/) - [Zipline](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/zipline/) - [Sourcegraph](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/sourcegraph/) - [Redefine Meat](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/redefine-meat/) - [Pipe](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/pipe/) - [General Fusion](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/general-fusion/) - [Impossible Foods](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/impossible-foods/) - [Hello Robot](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/hello-robot/) - [Salto](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/salto/) - [Finnhub](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/finnhub/) - [Koyeb](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/koyeb/) - [Liteboxer](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/liteboxer/) - [StuffThatWorks](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/stuffthatworks/) - [Mojo Vision](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/mojo-vision/) - [Readwise](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/readwise/) - [Neuralink](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/neuralink/) - [Descript](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/descript/) - [Token](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/token/) - [Kernel](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/kernel/) - [Comma](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/comma/) - [Snyk](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/snyk/) - [MasterClass](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/masterclass/) - [Tempo](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/tempo/) - [Grafana Labs](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/grafana-labs/) - [Wikifactory](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/wikifactory/) - [Vivaldi](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/vivaldi/) - [what3words](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/what3words/) - [Virtuix](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/virtuix/) - [Grammarly](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/grammarly/) - [Wire](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/wire/) - [Hypothes.is](https://perilli.com/startupsworthwatching/hypothesis/) ## The Brain - [Artists are not entertainers.](https://perilli.com/brain/artists-are-not-entertainers/) - Artists are not entertainers. They are explorers of our collective interior. They venture into the turbulence of being so that we may recognize ourselves a new. They transform fragility to form, silence to sign, darkness into light. to support them is to share their courage to believe that creation like knowledge requires risk, patience and - [The Three Dimensions of the Good Life](https://perilli.com/brain/the-three-dimensions-of-the-good-life/) - We present empirical evidence that happiness, meaning, and psychological richness are related but distinct and desirable aspects of a good life. - [The person who talks the most is the most likely to become the leader](https://perilli.com/brain/the-person-who-talks-the-most-is-the-most-likely-to-become-the-leader/) - The person who talks the most is the most likely to become the leader. - [Average Hourly Salaries Across Europe (2014)](https://perilli.com/brain/average-hourly-salaries-across-europe-2014/) - In 2014, the average hourly salary across Europe was 24 Euros / hour. - [The world will ask you who you are](https://perilli.com/brain/the-world-will-ask-you-who-you-are/) - The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you - Carl Jung - [You Were There](https://perilli.com/brain/you-were-there/) - [How to Hire a CEO (According to Vinod Khosla)](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-hire-a-ceo-according-to-vinod-khosla/) - How to Hire a CEO: 1. Define the Ideal Candidate Through Real Examples Instead of writing a spec, which generally looks like god in hard to meet form, start with a dozen top resumes that you can annotate. Highlight positive and negative experiences and characteristics to create a spec based on realistic candidates, and then - [Only 163 books out of 45,000 sold more than 100,000 copies](https://perilli.com/brain/only-163-books-out-of-45000-sold-more-than-100000-copies/) - There were more than 450,000 new titles issued last year according to Bookscan. A title is a book in a specific format–so the audio counts as separate from the hardcover, etc. To be conservative, you can triple the sales numbers here, to account for digital and audio formats of the same title. If we narrow - [How to do R&D (especially about AI)](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-do-rd-especially-about-ai/) - Zen and the Art of Research Management (with apologies to Sun Tzu), John Naughton, Robert W. Taylor Hire only the very best people, even if they are cussed. Perhaps especially if they are cussed. Your guiding principle should be to employ people who are smarter than you. One superb researcher is worth dozens of merely - [Asset Class Total Returns Since 2011](https://perilli.com/brain/asset-class-total-returns-since-2011/) - [As a senior executive, what do you really get paid to do?](https://perilli.com/brain/as-a-senior-executive-what-do-you-really-get-paid-to-do/) - I need eight hours of sleep. I think better. I have more energy. My mood is better, all these things. And think about it. As a senior executive, what do you really get paid to do? As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high quality decisions. Your job is - [Create a Vacuum](https://perilli.com/brain/create-a-vacuum/) - You know, I did five years of Akimbo, it was in the top 1% of all podcasts, and then I just stopped. And I stopped not because I didn't love it, I did love it, I stopped because if I kept doing it, there's something else I wouldn't do instead. And creating a vacuum is - [Failure is massively overrated](https://perilli.com/brain/failure-is-massively-overrated/) - Q: How important is failure in business? A: Well, I think failure is massively overrated. Most businesses fail for more than one reason. And so when a business fails, you often don't learn anything at all because the failure was overdetermined. You will think it failed for reason number one, but it failed for reasons - [Leadership is about having a belief system](https://perilli.com/brain/leadership-is-about-having-a-belief-system/) - That's leadership. Having a belief system. Knowing what's driving you to do what you do, not you fitting in to do career enhancement. - [Nobody wants a big idea](https://perilli.com/brain/nobody-wants-a-big-idea/) - No one is going to steal it. Not if it’s actually a big idea. One thing that big ideas have in common is that they’re almost impossible to give away. You could have bought Amazon stock for lunch money, been an early backer of Acumen, financed part of Spike Lee’s first movie, had front row - [How to get promoted](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-get-promoted/) - [The effect of life events on life satisfaction](https://perilli.com/brain/the-effect-of-life-events-on-life-satisfaction/) - [What founders owe to startup investors](https://perilli.com/brain/what-founders-owe-to-startup-investors/) - [Digitally-native teenagers' expectations about social interactions in real life](https://perilli.com/brain/digitally-native-teenagers-expectations-about-social-interactions-in-real-life/) - [How quickly people adopted consumer technologies (1900-2005)](https://perilli.com/brain/how-quickly-people-adopted-consumer-technologies-1900-2005/) - [Inspiration is for amateurs](https://perilli.com/brain/inspiration-is-for-amateurs/) - Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; - [In any given meeting, make sure there’s at least one piece of bad news](https://perilli.com/brain/in-any-given-meeting-make-sure-theres-at-least-one-piece-of-bad-news/) - One thing I was going to mention. This rule is sort of implicitly implemented at SpaceX and Tesla, but I’m going to be much more explicit about it and also apply at our company, X Corp. In any given meeting, make sure there’s at least one piece of bad news. You can have more than - [People write like bureaucrats because of the mistaken belief that it lets them off the hook](https://perilli.com/brain/people-write-like-bureaucrats-because-of-the-mistaken-belief-that-it-lets-them-off-the-hook/) - My building had an elevator problem. The management company sent everyone this note: Please be advised we have been experiencing intermittent issues with the elevator. Our priority is your safety, and we are taking immediate action to address the situation. After a thorough investigation by our electrician, it has been identified that there may be - [Find who and what needs you the most](https://perilli.com/brain/find-who-and-what-needs-you-the-most/) - No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most. - [Describing history as a “chain of events” is a terrible metaphor](https://perilli.com/brain/describing-history-as-a-chain-of-events-is-a-terrible-metaphor/) - Describing history as a “chain of events” is a terrible metaphor. It's more like the vast roots of a big tree, where numerous causes come together to shape an event and countless consequences branch out. Single-cause explanations for events in history are more akin to conspiracy theories than actual science. - [Pitch the way VCs think](https://perilli.com/brain/pitch-the-way-vcs-think/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smDjGO7ID2c&t=1s - [The Difference Between a Brand and a Logo](https://perilli.com/brain/the-difference-between-a-brand-and-a-logo/) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tHfUlASoi7Y - [Rational analysis is something we awkwardly laid atop culture](https://perilli.com/brain/rational-analysis-is-something-we-awkwardly-laid-atop-culture/) - When we revert to a testable analysis of what works, we’re relying on the one thing that all humans share: reality. But cultural connection, peer pressure and the power of affiliation and status often short-circuit that analysis. This happens so often that arguing about facts might not be the best way to make your point. - [We’d like to bring you into the conversation, but](https://perilli.com/brain/wed-like-to-bring-you-into-the-conversation-but/) - There’s a section in your book “Breaking the Spell” where you lament the postmodern idea that truth is relative.How do we decide which truths we should treat as objective and which we treat as subjective? I’m thinking of an area like personal identity, for example, where we hear phrases like, “This is my truth.” The - [Group Brainstorming is a Bad Idea](https://perilli.com/brain/group-brainstorming-is-a-bad-idea/) - There is a discrepancy between everyday beliefs and scientific evidence about the effectiveness of group discussion as a method of idea generation. Academics, politicians, and the business community appear to be firmly convinced that groups can stimulate individual creativity, and procedures such as group brainstorming are still widely used in commercial organizations and advertising agencies. - [China Overtakes the US in Academic Papers Published in Respected Journals](https://perilli.com/brain/china-overtakes-the-us-in-academic-papers-published-in-respected-journals/) - More than 40% of America’s scientific production—measured by the number of high-quality papers that U.S.-based scientists produce—involves cooperation with researchers abroad, according to , a London-based data firm that tracks global scientific research. ... The U.S. depends more heavily on China than China does on the U.S. in some strategic areas, according to an analysis - [The original meaning of "Please" and "Thank you"](https://perilli.com/brain/the-original-meaning-of-please-and-thank-you/) - the English “please” is short for “if you please,” “if it pleases you to do this”—it is the same in most European languages (French si il vous plait, Spanish por favor). Its literal meaning is “You are under no obligation to do this.” “Hand me the salt. Not that I am saying that you have - [Angel, Early-Stage VC, and Late-Stage VC deals size 2011-2021](https://perilli.com/brain/angel-early-stage-vc-and-late-stage-vc-deals-size-2011-2021/) - [Distribution of World's GDP from 1970 to 2020](https://perilli.com/brain/distribution-of-worlds-gdp-from-1970-to-2020/) - [Annual Change in World Population](https://perilli.com/brain/annual-change-in-world-population/) - [State of Venture Capital in Q2 2022](https://perilli.com/brain/state-of-venture-capital-in-q2-2022/) - [Teenagers (13-17yo) social media consumption trends from 2014-2015 to 2022](https://perilli.com/brain/teenagers-13-17yo-social-media-consumption-trends-from-2014-2015-to-2022/) - [Social Networks Users 2023](https://perilli.com/brain/social-networks-users-2023/) - [This idea of a meritocracy that every organization sells is really just a myth](https://perilli.com/brain/this-idea-of-a-meritocracy-that-every-organization-sells-is-really-just-a-myth/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpE_W50OTUc - [Quality is not a byproduct of effort](https://perilli.com/brain/quality-is-not-a-byproduct-of-effort/) - Often we’re taught that quality is the result of effort. That if you simply tried harder, you’d come closer to meeting spec. And yet, when we look at organizations or brands or individuals with a reputation for quality, it’s not at all clear that they accomplish this with more effort. Because that’s simply not sustainable. - [A question we should ask all our customers](https://perilli.com/brain/a-question-we-should-ask-all-our-customers/) - Which new Stripe improvements would, if shipped, make you say "FINALLY"? - [Evolutionary stable strategies are immune to treachery](https://perilli.com/brain/evolutionary-stable-strategies-are-immune-to-treachery/) - An evolutionarily stable strategy or ESS is defined as a strategy which, if most members of a population adopt it, cannot be bettered by an alternative strategy.* ... An ESS is stable, not because it is particularly good for the individuals participating in it, but simply because it is immune to treachery from within. It - [Selected genes are good when complementary to ones they share a body with](https://perilli.com/brain/selected-genes-are-good-when-complementary-to-ones-they-share-a-body-with/) - Genes are selected, not as ‘good’ in isolation, but as good at working against the background of the other genes in the gene pool. A good gene must be compatible with, and complementary to, the other genes with whom it has to share a long succession of bodies. ... The gene pool is the long-term - [Individual altruism is a mask for gene selfishness](https://perilli.com/brain/individual-altruism-is-a-mask-for-gene-selfishness/) - What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA, distributed throughout the world. If we allow ourselves the licence of talking about genes as if they had conscious aims, always reassuring ourselves that - [Altruism is an investment to increase an individual's chances of survival at the expenses of another and of ourselves](https://perilli.com/brain/altruism-is-an-investment-to-increase-an-individuals-chances-of-survival-at-the-expenses-of-another-and-of-ourselves/) - Parental investment (P.I.) is defined as ‘any investment by the parent in an individual offspring that increases the offspring’s chance of surviving (and hence reproductive success) at the cost of the parent’s ability to invest in other offspring’. The beauty of Trivers’s parental investment is that it is measured in units very close to the - [The difference between male and female boils down to size and number of sex cells](https://perilli.com/brain/the-difference-between-male-and-female-boils-down-to-size-and-number-of-sex-cells/) - We simply accepted that some animals are called male, and others female, without asking what these words really meant. But what is the essence of maleness? What, at bottom, defines a female? We as mammals see the sexes defined by whole syndromes of characteristics—possession of a penis, bearing of the young, suckling by means of - [A female is in demand while a male is not because her egg provides nutrition for the offspring while the sperm doesn't](https://perilli.com/brain/a-female-is-in-demand-while-a-male-is-not-because-her-egg-provides-nutrition-for-the-offspring-while-the-sperm-doesnt/) - Is there anything a female can do to reduce the extent to which her mate exploits her in the first place? She has a strong card in her hand. She can refuse to copulate. She is in demand, in a seller’s market. This is because she brings the dowry of a large, nutritious egg. A - [Mothers are more committed to children than fathers because of their initial investment: the egg](https://perilli.com/brain/mothers-are-more-committed-to-children-than-fathers-because-of-their-initial-investment-the-egg/) - Both partners, as selfish machines, ‘want’ sons and daughters in equal numbers. To this extent they agree. Where they disagree is in who is going to bear the brunt of the cost of rearing each one of those children. Each individual wants as many surviving children as possible. The less he or she is obliged - [Females postpone copulation to identify signs of fidelity in males](https://perilli.com/brain/females-postpone-copulation-to-identify-signs-of-fidelity-in-males/) - The simplest version of the domestic-bliss strategy is this. The female looks the males over, and tries to spot signs of fidelity and domesticity in advance. There is bound to be variation in the population of males in their predisposition to be faithful husbands. If females could recognize such qualities in advance, they could benefit - [Maybe humans are gigantic colonies of symbiotic viruses](https://perilli.com/brain/maybe-humans-are-gigantic-colonies-of-symbiotic-viruses/) - Within each one of our cells there are numerous tiny bodies called mitochondria. The mitochondria are chemical factories, responsible for providing most of the energy we need. If we lost our mitochondria we would be dead within seconds. Recently it has been plausibly argued that mitochondria are, in origin, symbiotic bacteria who joined forces with - [Our own genes cooperate with one another because they share the same outlet into the future](https://perilli.com/brain/our-own-genes-cooperate-with-one-another-because-they-share-the-same-outlet-into-the-future/) - Our own genes cooperate with one another, not because they are our own but because they share the same outlet—sperm or egg—into the future. If any genes of an organism, such as a human, could discover a way of spreading themselves that did not depend on the conventional sperm or egg route, they would take - [The fundamental unit of all life in the universe is the replicator](https://perilli.com/brain/the-fundamental-unit-of-all-life-in-the-universe-is-the-replicator/) - Let me end with a brief manifesto, a summary of the entire selfish gene/ extended phenotype view of life. It is a view, I maintain, that applies to living things everywhere in the universe. The fundamental unit, the prime mover of all life, is the replicator. A replicator is anything in the universe of which - [Spend less time shipping products and more time listening to customers](https://perilli.com/brain/spend-less-time-shipping-products-and-more-time-listening-to-customers/) - With the benefit of hindsight, Hykes believes that Docker should have spent less time shipping products and more time listening to customers. “I would have held off rushing to scale a commercial product and invested more in collecting insight from our community and building a team dedicated to understanding their commercial needs,” Hykes said. “We - [Find somebody with all the questions](https://perilli.com/brain/find-somebody-with-all-the-questions/) - Far more valuable is someone who has all the questions. The ability to figure out what hasn’t been figured out and see what hasn’t been seen is a significant advantage. - [The stereotype of the startup founder](https://perilli.com/brain/the-stereotype-of-the-startup-founder/) - My dataset showed that the founders of billion-dollar companies were more likely to have PhDs than be dropouts, many of them had entirely non-technical co-founders, fewer than 15 percent went through any accelerator program, many weren’t solving a personal problem, and very few were first to market. - [Ask the startups that don't become a billion-dollar business](https://perilli.com/brain/ask-the-startups-that-dont-become-a-billion-dollar-business/) - In this book, data from billion-dollar companies is compared to data from a baseline group of startups that did not become unicorns. Between 2005 and the end of 2018—the time period of my dataset—about twenty thousand startups were founded that raised at least $ 3 million each in funding. - [Age doesn't matter (if you are trying trying to build a billion-dollar startup)](https://perilli.com/brain/age-doesnt-matter-if-you-are-trying-trying-to-build-a-billion-dollar-startup/) - Across billion-dollar companies, the age range is quite substantial. Some founders were as young as eighteen, others as old as sixty-eight when they started their companies. The median age of a billion-dollar startup’s founder was thirty-four years old—meaning half the founders of billion-dollar startups were that age or older when they got started. The distribution - [Why older startup founders succeed](https://perilli.com/brain/why-older-startup-founders-succeed/) - On average, the founders who were thirty-four or older had a longer history of entrepreneurship. Two-thirds of them had previously started a company, like Haddleton. The other third, who were first-time founders, often had years of relevant work experience as executives at large companies and were used to managing large teams and products. Eric Yuan, - [Single-founder billion-dollar startups](https://perilli.com/brain/single-founder-billion-dollar-startups/) - one in five billion-dollar companies was founded by a solo founder. That’s less common than dual founders (36 percent) or companies with three co-founders (28 percent), but more common than you might think. There are also a few cases where billion-dollar companies were started by more than three people: 12 percent of billion-dollar companies had - [Co-founders do better when they have a clear division of responsibilities](https://perilli.com/brain/co-founders-do-better-when-they-have-a-clear-division-of-responsibilities/) - Co-founders tend to do better when they have a clear division of responsibilities, a clean decision on who is CEO from the beginning, and the ability to communicate well with each other. “One of the biggest reasons founders fight is that they have a lot of overlap in either role or decision-making, or they both - [Non-tech founders can build billion-dollar startups](https://perilli.com/brain/non-tech-founders-can-build-billion-dollar-startups/) - Lyft, initially called Zimride before a pivot, was started by two non-technical founders. Logan Green, the CEO, began the company shortly after graduating from University of California, Santa Barbara, with a bachelor’s degree in business economics. His co-founder, John Zimmer, had a degree in hotel administration from Cornell. Both saw the early potential of ridesharing. - [Cash vs. equity freedom](https://perilli.com/brain/cash-vs-equity-freedom/) - Every offer Brex makes is a total compensation number, and employees can choose how much cash versus how much equity they want. - [Stanford and startups](https://perilli.com/brain/stanford-and-startups/) - Stanford, in particular, has a reputation as a startup factory, graduating more billion-dollar founders than any other university—thirty-eight during the time period of my study, compared to twenty-six from Harvard and twenty from MIT. (Among these top three schools, Stanford produces an equal number of founding CEOs and CxOs, while MIT churns out many more - [Ask your customers for feedback](https://perilli.com/brain/ask-your-customers-for-feedback/) - “When he started Pinterest, Silbermann took liberties to experiment more, but he also brought with him some tricks from his years at Google. His first job for the search giant had been in customer support, answering phones. He remembered the value of having a connection to customers, so he personally emailed Pinterest’s first five thousand - [About not knowing what you are doing](https://perilli.com/brain/about-not-knowing-what-you-are-doing/) - “Among billion-dollar companies, fewer than 50 percent of founding CEOs and fewer than 30 percent of founding CxOs had much, if any, work experience that directly related to their startups.” - [The more startups you build, the higher the chance to get to a billion dollars](https://perilli.com/brain/the-more-startups-you-build-the-higher-the-chance-to-get-to-a-billion-dollars/) - when I looked at the billion-dollar companies in my study, I unearthed a compelling pattern. Almost 60 percent of those founders had previous experience as startup founders. Not as early employees of startups—but as founders, and in most cases as founding CEOs. Some of their prior ventures were massive successes; some were catastrophic failures. The - [How to prepare for building a billion-dollar startup](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-prepare-for-building-a-billion-dollar-startup/) - Looking at the data, one can see that the best preparation to start a multibillion-dollar company is to create a $ 10 million–plus company first. The best preparation for that is to start something—anything: a hobby project, a side hustle, maybe a school club. - [How to not pivot a startup](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-not-pivot-a-startup/) - Don’t hire a sales and marketing team before the market is clearly pulling the product out of you. If you are not quite sure whether you have product-market fit, you probably don’t. “One of the most common mistakes companies make is to try to inorganically grow the customer pipeline before the product is retaining existing - [How VCs invest in software companies vs biotech companies](https://perilli.com/brain/how-vcs-invest-in-software-companies-vs-biotech-companies/) - In an early-stage round of financing for a software company, all the investors may dilute the founders by around 15 to 30 percent of the company’s stock. For a typical early-stage pharma or biotech company, investors may dilute the founders at a higher rate—sometimes up to 70 percent—to reflect this risk. - [No innovation coming from large companies](https://perilli.com/brain/no-innovation-coming-from-large-companies/) - I look back forty years and I can’t find one major innovation that came from a large company. Not one. General Motors and Volkswagen couldn’t design an electric car. Boeing and Airbus couldn’t do space as SpaceX could. None of the media companies did media as Twitter and Facebook did. None of the pharma companies - [Solve problems no one sees](https://perilli.com/brain/solve-problems-no-one-sees/) - Half the battle in innovating is solving a problem that no one sees. It’s easy to solve a problem that everyone sees. You have to notice the problems that many of us often ignore. - [Startups can thrive in an already crowded market](https://perilli.com/brain/startups-can-thrive-in-an-already-crowded-market/) - Contrary to popular belief, the data indicates that more than 65 percent of billion-dollar companies started in markets with well-established demand. In the group of random startups, this was true for only 47 percent of companies, suggesting some advantages to companies that tried to compete in already-established large markets. The companies that succeed in these - [There are no bad ideas](https://perilli.com/brain/there-are-no-bad-ideas/) - There are no bad ideas. There are only early ideas.… They’ll all happen. I’ve become convinced.… Every smart person that comes in here with a crazy idea, it’s all going to happen at some point. They will all happen. It’s just a question of when. —Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz - [The second most important thing for a startup is timing](https://perilli.com/brain/the-second-most-important-thing-for-a-startup-is-timing/) - when nine hundred venture capitalists were asked about what they considered the most important factor in the success of their portfolio companies, timing came in second, only after the makeup of the team, - [Why now?](https://perilli.com/brain/why-now/) - Great VCs typically ask the question: “Why now?” - [How Zoom scaled its team](https://perilli.com/brain/how-zoom-scaled-its-team/) - We first hired engineers, and those engineers could sell to several customers, and when that grew, we hired a sales team that was able to close more deals. Then we had a support team, and then, when we had a lot of customers, we had our customer success team. And even though at some point - [How do things get better and better over time?](https://perilli.com/brain/how-do-things-get-better-and-better-over-time/) - Keith Rabois, a general partner at Founders Fund, has another way to think about the concept of network effects. He relates it to what he calls “accumulating advantages.” When Rabois hears a pitch, he looks for evidence that the startup can build momentum so that the business is likely to be more successful every day. - [Skin in the game](https://perilli.com/brain/skin-in-the-game/) - many VCs early in their careers have to borrow from banks to pay their “skin in the game” capital. - [VC firms returns](https://perilli.com/brain/vc-firms-returns/) - LPs would like VC firms to return three times (3x) their capital or more in the span of ten years. The media has sometimes mocked highly funded venture-backed companies that fail, or companies that fundraise at a high valuation without revenues. These critiques are right nine out of ten times. But that failure is baked - [What type of outcome a VC firm seeks](https://perilli.com/brain/what-type-of-outcome-a-vc-firm-seeks/) - Every company that a VC invests in needs to have the potential to return at least the fund. If you raise VC money, this calculation will determine the investor’s expectation and will establish at what point they would be happy for you to sell the company. Let’s use an example to illustrate how this works. - [How stock market crashes impact VC investments](https://perilli.com/brain/how-stock-market-crashes-impact-vc-investments/) - One reason why funding follows the markets is that venture capitalists themselves rely on funding from limited partners, the entities that invest in VC firms. LPs need to keep their portfolios balanced between public market securities, like hedge funds, and private markets, like venture capital. When the stock market crashes, their venture capital asset class - [What is the Product the Customer Buys Before They Buy Yours?](https://perilli.com/brain/what-is-the-product-the-customer-buys-before-they-buy-yours/) - the customer isn’t purchasing just one solution to solve their needs. The typical mid-market company purchases 137 SaaS products, and the figure grows 30% annually. Companies collect tremendous amounts of software, and they layer it on top of one another to ascend a Maslow’s hierarchy of software needs until they reach actualization. Which is the - [How angel investors beat the odds](https://perilli.com/brain/how-angel-investors-beat-the-odds/) - For an angel investor to beat the odds, they need to invest in a portfolio. Research from 2012 showed that angel investors needed to invest in a minimum of four to six companies; any fewer and they were more likely to lose money. Once investors had a portfolio of at least four investments, their median - [The role of an angel investor](https://perilli.com/brain/the-role-of-an-angel-investor/) - An angel investor is like an advisor who’s willing to put their money where their mouth is: they want the startup to succeed because they have skin in the game. For founders, finding an angel can be a great source of both funding and mentorship. I recommend picking angels who either are former founders/ operators, - [Without industry expertise, please](https://perilli.com/brain/without-industry-expertise-please/) - In general, I don’t like [investing in] founders from the industry. I typically avoid them like the plague. I actually prefer people who are much more naive. I think you can always hire experts later, and mostly industry expertise teaches you what you can’t do or shouldn’t do, not how to do it. And you - [What are the top VC firms?](https://perilli.com/brain/what-are-the-top-vc-firms/) - So who are some of these top VC firms? It’s hard to identify top firms because their data is rarely public and their performance numbers are tightly held. Even if you know how large a funding round is, you don’t know how much the lead investor invested and how much they owned. Based purely on - [Ideal board members](https://perilli.com/brain/ideal-board-members/) - Ideal board members are those who don’t amplify problems, but rather act as a shock absorber for the CEO—people who can help the CEO make the best decisions when problems arise, and can help the CEO understand what is really working and is worth investing heavily in. - [The default way to do venture capital](https://perilli.com/brain/the-default-way-to-do-venture-capital/) - Marc Andreessen, who started Andreesen Horowitz, has said that the “default” way some do venture capital is to check boxes: “really good founder, really good idea, really good products, really good initial customers. Check, check, check, check. What you find with those sort of checkbox deals, and they get done all the time, is that - [Startups valuations in early-stage venture capital](https://perilli.com/brain/startups-valuations-in-early-stage-venture-capital/) - Valuations are a big mystery to many entrepreneurs. And for good reason. In the early stages, valuation is not a factor of revenue or much else. According to research done by Ilya Strebulaev, a professor of venture capital at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and his collaborators, most VCs, especially early-stage VCs, don’t use techniques - [Raising venture capital rounds to eliminate specific risks](https://perilli.com/brain/raising-venture-capital-rounds-to-eliminate-specific-risks/) - Is there a risk with regard to the unit economics—that is, an inability to produce and market each unit of the device or service for less than it costs? Is there a risk of being unable to acquire new customers for less than a specific proportion of the sales price? Or a risk that “freemium” - [Why does this company matter?](https://perilli.com/brain/why-does-this-company-matter/) - the question that Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia, would always ask is “Why does this company matter?” That’s a superpowerful question. The other way to ask the question, especially for early-stage investors, is “Why is your company going to be an important part of the future in ten years?” - [How to structure a pitch deck according to Sequoia Capital](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-structure-a-pitch-deck-according-to-sequoia-capital/) - We publish this deck about how we like pitch decks to be structured. You don’t need to do it exactly in this order, but it is a way to organize your thoughts on why your company matters. Here’s the order: 1. Company Purpose 2. Problem 3. Solution 4. Why Now? 5. Market Size 6. Competition - [Before you call your idea a failure](https://perilli.com/brain/before-you-call-your-idea-a-failure/) - More than a year into starting Airbnb, co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia were, respectively, $ 25,000 and $ 10,000 in debt. The website was getting fewer than fifty visits a day - [It takes an average of 5 years to become a billion-dollar company](https://perilli.com/brain/it-takes-an-average-of-5-years-to-become-a-billion-dollar-company/) - Next we will look at how long it took for these companies to become unicorns. Based on my data, it took anywhere from one or two years from the first funding round (e.g., Allogene) to twelve years or more. The average is about five years. - [Billion-dollar startups raise founding rounds at a faster cadence](https://perilli.com/brain/billion-dollar-startups-raise-founding-rounds-at-a-faster-cadence/) - The median billion-dollar startup raised its first round of funding just six months after founding and its second round in less than two years from founding. Compared to the random group of venture-backed companies, the differences are significant: the median random company took one year from founding to raise its first round, and four years - [Advices for fundraising](https://perilli.com/brain/advices-for-fundraising/) - Start by raising a small round from a strategic group of angel investors. This is your opportunity to gain a great set of advisors who have skin in the game. Use that money to search for product-market fit, and pivot as much as needed until you see customers pulling the product. Then raise a larger - [What makes a startup a startup?](https://perilli.com/brain/what-makes-a-startup-a-startup/) - A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth. Everything else we associate with startups follows - [Cost to launch a tech startup vs allocated venture capital](https://perilli.com/brain/cost-to-launch-a-tech-startup-vs-allocated-venture-capital/) - [How the meaning of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) has changed over time](https://perilli.com/brain/how-the-meaning-of-annual-recurring-revenue-arr-has-changed-over-time/) - I was taught that ARR is the value of the currently paying, deployed, and contracted customers, annualized. In other words, the ARR is a guaranteed annuity. The guarantee implies predictability, which investors prize and value at high multiples. Over time, the definition of ARR has slackened. First, SaaS companies modified it to include customers who - [How many startups are out there?](https://perilli.com/brain/how-many-startups-are-out-there/) - The FTC report says that there were 86 US exits to GAFAM for over $50m from 2010 to 2019. According to the NVCA, there were 2,100 US VC exits for over $50m in that period. Selling to those five companies was 4% of decent-sized exits. (People sometimes suggest that entrepreneurs start companies and VCs fund - [SaaS business performance in 2021](https://perilli.com/brain/saas-business-performance-in-2021/) - [Value of equity vs crypto tokens](https://perilli.com/brain/value-of-equity-vs-crypto-tokens/) - Here’s a table that summmarizes the similarities and differences of equity and tokens. They are in fact, very similar. Voting & Dividends Many of us have bought and sold equity; it’s familiar. If I buy one share of a public company stock, I can vote in the shareholder decisions and receive dividends if the board - [How do you know people want this?](https://perilli.com/brain/how-do-you-know-people-want-this/) - What YC looks for, above all, is founders who understand some group of users and can make what they want. This is so important that it's YC's motto: "Make something people want." … Who are your first users going to be, and how do you know they want this? If I had to decide whether - [Israel as the second Silicon Valley](https://perilli.com/brain/israel-as-the-second-silicon-valley/) - In Israel, there were 13 unicorns, or private companies with a valuation of at least $1 billion, as of June 6, compared with just one five years ago, according to PitchBook Data. Much of the investment has come from the U.S. Private firms have attracted $15.1 billion in new funding up to Aug. 4 this - [The first thing VCs look for in a company](https://perilli.com/brain/the-first-thing-vcs-look-for-in-a-company/) - Ask any venture capitalist what they are looking for when evaluating companies, and strength of “teams” or “founders” is the first thing they’ll mention. - [The size of the venture capital industry in 2020](https://perilli.com/brain/the-size-of-the-venture-capital-industry-in-2020/) - According to data from the National Venture Capital Association, there are a little over one thousand active venture capital firms in the United States, and the total dollar amount managed by all American VCs in 2019 was $ 444 billion—a tiny fraction compared to other parts of the finance industry, whose assets under management total - [Venture capital allocation across continents](https://perilli.com/brain/venture-capital-allocation-across-continents/) - [Global venture capital activity 2002-2021](https://perilli.com/brain/global-venture-capital-activity-2002-2021/) - [Average venture capital deal value 2006-2021](https://perilli.com/brain/average-venture-capital-deal-value-2006-2021/) - [From angel investor to solo venture capitalist](https://perilli.com/brain/from-angel-investor-to-solo-venture-capitalist/) - Some angel investors, who invest their own money without a team or firm, are spreading their wings and evolving into solo venture capitalists, who invest external funds. They can move fast—there are no other partners to convince before doing a deal. Elad Gil, a prominent solo vc, made around 20 investments in the first half - [Some VC firms are better than others at identifying $10B startups before they are worth that much](https://perilli.com/brain/some-vc-firms-are-better-than-others-at-identifying-10b-startups-before-they-are-worth-that-much/) - [How to think like a fallibilist](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-think-like-a-fallibilist/) - Fallibilists expect even their best and most fundamental explanations to contain misconceptions in addition to truth, and so they are predisposed to try to change them for the better. - [PowerPoint presentations are a litany of incomplete thoughts](https://perilli.com/brain/powerpoint-presentations-are-a-litany-of-incomplete-thoughts/) - PowerPoint presentations, with their litany of bullet points and incomplete thoughts, were banned inside the company despite being popular in the rest of corporate America. Instead, all meetings started with almost meditative readings of data-rich, six-page documents, called “narratives.” The act of business building at Amazon was an editorial process, with papers subject to numerous - [The Never-Ending Cycle of Enterprise IT](https://perilli.com/brain/the-never-ending-cycle-of-enterprise-it/) - Implications: - [How to tell if you are defending the status quo](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-tell-if-you-are-defending-the-status-quo/) - This is a classic case of defending the status quo. Here’s a simple way to tell if that’s what you’re doing: imagine for a second that milk was a new product, designed to take on existing beverages made from hemp, oats or nuts. Defending oat milk against the incursion of cow milk is pretty easy. - [Language matters in law](https://perilli.com/brain/language-matters-in-law/) - For David Zapolsky, a former Brooklyn prosecutor turned forceful and protective corporate attorney, preparation for potential legal scrutiny went even further. Zapolsky felt that “language matters in law,” and after being appointed Amazon’s general counsel in 2012, he started keeping a list on his office wall of certain indelicate words that he never wanted used - [When principles matter](https://perilli.com/brain/when-principles-matter/) - Principles truly matter in the moments when it’s really difficult to stick with them. - [How to find the truth](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-find-the-truth/) - Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. - Francis Bacon - [Persuading someone that they are incorrect](https://perilli.com/brain/persuading-someone-that-they-are-incorrect/) - The other way to do it is to try to persuade someone that what they thought they wanted is incorrect. That can cause real change–it’s leadership, not simply fulfilling an established need. But to do that, we need to find something in the other person’s set of desires and beliefs that doesn’t have to change. - [Think like a lifeguard](https://perilli.com/brain/think-like-a-lifeguard/) - Who am I to walk up to someone at a party and introduce myself? Who are you to start a new project? Who are they to give a talk on the main stage? Don’t raise your hand–someone else might have a better question. Don’t ship that work, it’s not ready… There are endless excuses, comparisons - [It’s quite possible to turn honor into money, almost impossible to convert money into honor](https://perilli.com/brain/its-quite-possible-to-turn-honor-into-money-almost-impossible-to-convert-money-into-honor/) - In all such matters, reputation was crucial—in fact, one lively debate in early commercial law was over the question of whether reputation could (like land, labor, money, or other resources) itself be considered a form of capital. It sometimes happened that merchants would form partnerships with no capital at all, but only their good names. - [The 7 Main Sales Pipeline Stages](https://perilli.com/brain/the-7-main-sales-pipeline-stages/) - Customers follow a process from discovery all the way through to sales and then beyond as they become returning buyers. The seven key sales pipeline stages include: Prospecting. Through ads, public relations, and other promotional activities, potential customers discover that your business exists. Often, you apply targeting parameters to deliver your message to potential buyers - [Company insiders often possess only the illusion of knowledge, not the real thing](https://perilli.com/brain/company-insiders-often-possess-only-the-illusion-of-knowledge-not-the-real-thing/) - The most painful perversion of Lynch’s rule occurred in corporate retirement plans. If you’re supposed to “buy what you know,” then what could possibly be a better investment for your 401(k) than your own company’s stock? After all, you work there; don’t you know more about the company than an outsider ever could? Sadly, the - [Consulting and industry research are often purchased for one reason only: validation](https://perilli.com/brain/consulting-and-industry-research-are-often-purchased-for-one-reason-only-validation/) - What I could not get my head around was having to force-fit analysis to a conclusion. In one case, the question I was tasked with solving had a clear and unambiguous answer: By my estimate, the client’s plan of action had a net present discounted value of negative one billion dollars. Even after accounting for - [Why would anybody want to listen to what you have to say?](https://perilli.com/brain/why-would-anybody-want-to-listen-to-what-you-have-to-say/) - because you help them because you entertain them because you make them hopeful and/or enthusiastic (maybe) because you say things they would like to say but cannot say - [One man’s right is simply another’s obligation](https://perilli.com/brain/one-mans-right-is-simply-anothers-obligation/) - We are so used to the idea of “having” rights—that rights are something one can possess—that we rarely think about what this might actually mean. In fact (as Medieval jurists were well aware), one man’s right is simply another’s obligation. My right to free speech is others’ obligation not to punish me for speaking; my - [How the notion of "meme" was born](https://perilli.com/brain/how-the-notion-of-meme-was-born/) - is there anything that must be true of all life, wherever it is found, and whatever the basis of its chemistry? If forms of life exist whose chemistry is based on silicon rather than carbon, or ammonia rather than water, if creatures are discovered that boil to death at − 100 degrees centigrade, if a - [In humans, memes took over genes and started a new kind of evolution](https://perilli.com/brain/in-humans-memes-took-over-genes-and-started-a-new-kind-of-evolution/) - Fundamentally, the reason why it is good policy for us to try to explain biological phenomena in terms of gene advantage is that genes are replicators. As soon as the primeval soup provided conditions in which molecules could make copies of themselves, the replicators themselves took over. For more than three thousand million years, DNA - [Memes compete against each for the attention necessary to replicate](https://perilli.com/brain/memes-compete-against-each-for-the-attention-necessary-to-replicate/) - In what sense then are memes competing with each other? Should we expect them to be ‘selfish’ or ‘ruthless’, if they have no alleles? The answer is that we might, because there is a sense in which they must indulge in a kind of competition with each other. Any user of a digital computer knows - [Employers do not fully understand why employees are leaving](https://perilli.com/brain/employers-do-not-fully-understand-why-employees-are-leaving/) - [The right time to start talking](https://perilli.com/brain/the-right-time-to-start-talking/) - Because you used to be able to do ALL the reading. You could read all the essential science fiction books before you wrote yours. You could watch all the key movies before you directed yours. You could understand all the current thinking in a field of medicine before you prescribed a drug… No longer. ... - [How to find opportunities](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-find-opportunities/) - Every opportunity is attached to a person. Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity — including one that has a financial payoff — you’re really looking for a person. - [Do things that might not work](https://perilli.com/brain/do-things-that-might-not-work/) - The first mindset is pretty common. Take good notes. Make tiny changes. Repeat. Improve. Incrementally move along the asymptote. Test and measure. The other mindset is rare indeed. Do things that might not work. Develop new assertions. Go past the edges to unexplored territory. Try to figure out why things are the way they are. - [Anyone can just spit back what the professor is saying](https://perilli.com/brain/anyone-can-just-spit-back-what-the-professor-is-saying/) - My idea of being properly educated is being right when the professor is wrong. Anyone can just spit back what the professor is saying. It takes a really educated person to think for themselves. - [Look at you! You’re just wasting your life away, lying around like that.](https://perilli.com/brain/look-at-you-youre-just-wasting-your-life-away-lying-around-like-that/) - MISSIONARY: Look at you! You’re just wasting your life away, lying around like that. SAMOAN: Why? What do you think I should be doing? MISSIONARY: Well, there are plenty of coconuts all around here. Why not dry some copra and sell it? SAMOAN: And why would I want to do that? MISSIONARY: You could make - [Keen to know how a giraffe would perform as CEO?](https://perilli.com/brain/keen-to-know-how-a-giraffe-would-perform-as-ceo/) - Two things are likely to be true of people searching for leadership advice: they have not made it, and they would like a shortcut to success. These readers do not want to hear that the route to the top is a Darwinian struggle that takes place over many years and that demands highly unusual attributes. - [Society has something to do with your fate and not just your innate qualities](https://perilli.com/brain/society-has-something-to-do-with-your-fate-and-not-just-your-innate-qualities/) - I’ve had it so good in this world, you know. The odds were fifty-to-one against me being born in the United States in 1930. I won the lottery the day I emerged from the womb by being in the United States instead of in some other country where my chances would have been way different. - [Onboarding at Zapier](https://perilli.com/brain/onboarding-at-zapier/) - Onboarding is another essential process that had to be reinvented for Zapier’s nontraditional setup. And it’s another one that Foster finds they’ve actually improved on. “Think about a co-located office. When you join the company you walk in, get introduced to everybody, maybe meet the executive team for a lunch the first week,” he says. - [Lowering cost](https://perilli.com/brain/lowering-cost/) - “We do not charge more because we can’t figure out how to make it cost less. We invent to make it cost less.” - [Let customers decide](https://perilli.com/brain/let-customers-decide/) - The perennial debate inside Amazon was pitting the quality of products versus the quantity. The fights often had to be arbitrated by Faricy’s boss, senior vice president Sebastian Gunningham, or by Bezos himself. Both leaned heavily toward expanding the breadth of selection as fast as possible. “Jeff and Sebastian’s view was that all selection is - [How to anchor customer relationships](https://perilli.com/brain/how-to-anchor-customer-relationships/) - Herrington’s memo pointed out that Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, Metro AG, and Kroger were the world’s five largest retailers at the time. “All of them anchor their customer relationship in groceries,” he wrote. If Amazon’s retail business was going to grow to $ 400 billion in gross merchandise sales, it needed to transform a model based - [Business units goals and metrics](https://perilli.com/brain/business-units-goals-and-metrics/) - Bezos and other Amazon executives wanted the whole effort to move even faster. They set “S-team goals” such as requiring the team to grow product selection by a certain amount. Around five hundred such goals were established inside Amazon and approved by the leadership committee at the end of every calendar year, establishing the most - [You'll buy what I tell you to buy](https://perilli.com/brain/youll-buy-what-i-tell-you-to-buy/) - “Moving ads to the top of search pages was the game changer,” said an Amazon computer scientist who worked on the ad business. “Sponsored products would be nothing close to what it is today if that decision wasn’t made, and Jeff was the one who signed off on it.” - [Too big to fail](https://perilli.com/brain/too-big-to-fail/) - “Amazon is not too big to fail,” he once warned employees at an all-hands meeting. “In fact, I predict one day Amazon will fail. Amazon will go bankrupt. If you look at large companies, their lifespans tend to be thirty-plus years, not a hundred-plus years.” - [Scaling is not about doing more of the same thing you’ve been doing](https://perilli.com/brain/scaling-is-not-about-doing-more-of-the-same-thing-youve-been-doing/) - it’s easy to believe that getting to the next sustainable level is simply the result of efforts similar to the ones that got you here. - [Customer acquisition cost (CAC) for traditional enterprise software companies vs crypto companies](https://perilli.com/brain/customer-acquisition-cost-cac-for-traditional-enterprise-software-companies-vs-crypto-companies/) - Typical enterprise software companies spend approximately 7-15% of their enterprise value on customer acquisition. L1 Web3 companies spend 29-95%. The comparison between web2 and web3 is stark, 3-7x higher CAC relative to corporate value. Even if the estimates are off by a factor of 2 or more, this math suggests crypto companies acquire customers less - ["Next quarter for all practical purposes is done already and it has probably been done for a couple of years"](https://perilli.com/brain/next-quarter-for-all-practical-purposes-is-done-already-and-it-has-probably-been-done-for-a-couple-of-years/) - In a talk at the Internet Association's annual gala last week, Bezos was talking about what makes his e-commerce and cloud company tick. As well as being customer focused, the CEO also said that the company is "long-term oriented". "I ask everybody to not think in two-to-three-year time frames, but to think in five-to-seven-year time - [7 key metrics to look for in S-1 filings](https://perilli.com/brain/7-key-metrics-to-look-for-in-s-1-filings/) - Revenue, $M Revenue Growth Gross Margin Sales Efficiency Net Income Margin Cash Flow from Operations Margin Net Dollar Retention Average Customer Value, $k Customer Count - [The one program of all revolutionary movements in the ancient world](https://perilli.com/brain/the-one-program-of-all-revolutionary-movements-in-the-ancient-world/) - for the last five thousand years, with remarkable regularity, popular insurrections have begun the same way: with the ritual destruction of the debt records—tablets, papyri, ledgers, whatever form they might have taken in any particular time and place. (After that, rebels usually go after the records of landholding and tax assessments.) As the great classicist - [If you live on $30 a day you are part of the richest 15% of the world](https://perilli.com/brain/if-you-live-on-30-a-day-you-are-part-of-the-richest-15-of-the-world/) - [The function of money](https://perilli.com/brain/the-function-of-money/) - Economists generally speak of three functions of money: medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value. All economic textbooks treat the first as primary. - [Where the terms "stock" and "stock holder" come from](https://perilli.com/brain/where-the-terms-stock-and-stock-holder-come-from/) - One of the most important forms of currency in England in Henry’s time were notched “tally sticks” used to record debts. Tally sticks were quite explicitly IOUs: both parties to a transaction would take a hazelwood twig, notch it to indicate the amount owed, and then split it in half. The creditor would keep one - [Taxes were invented to simplify the logistics of feeding an army](https://perilli.com/brain/taxes-were-invented-to-simplify-the-logistics-of-feeding-an-army/) - Why did they make subjects pay taxes at all? This is not a question we’re used to asking. The answer seems self-evident. Governments demand taxes because they wish to get their hands on people’s money. But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently - [Keynes believed that money represents credit against a debt, banks create money, and States enforce the credit agreement](https://perilli.com/brain/keynes-believed-that-money-represents-credit-against-a-debt-banks-create-money-and-states-enforce-the-credit-agreement/) - John Maynard Keynes himself was much more open to what he liked to call the “alternative tradition” of credit and state theories than any economist of that stature (and Keynes is still arguably the single most important economic thinker of the twentieth century) before or since. At certain points he immersed himself in it: he - [The role of governments according to the Primordial Debt Theory](https://perilli.com/brain/the-role-of-governments-according-to-the-primordial-debt-theory/) - The core argument is that any attempt to separate monetary policy from social policy is ultimately wrong. Primordial-debt theorists insist that these have always been the same thing. Governments use taxes to create money, and they are able to do so because they have become the guardians of the debt that all citizens have to - [It turns out that the first SPAC was conceived in 1710](https://perilli.com/brain/it-turns-out-that-the-first-spac-was-conceived-in-1710/) - Charles MacKay has left us some immortal descriptions of the first of these, the famous “South Sea Bubble” of 1710. Actually, the South Sea Company itself (which grew so large that at one point it bought up most of the national debt) was just the anchor for what happened, a giant corporation, its stock constantly - [The Hindenburg omen has appeared before all of the stock market crashes, or panic events, of the past 21 years](https://perilli.com/brain/the-hindenburg-omen-has-appeared-before-all-of-the-stock-market-crashes-or-panic-events-of-the-past-21-years/) - The Hindenburg omen uses the basic premises of market breadth by studying the number of advancing/declining issues but gives the traditional interpretation a slight twist to suggest that the market is setting up for a large correction. This indicator gives a warning signal when more than 2.2% of traded issues are creating new highs while - [Are fungible web3 tokens really fungible?](https://perilli.com/brain/are-fungible-web3-tokens-really-fungible/) - Fungibility refers to the fact that units of money are equal. Every token of that currency must be treated equally, even if it has been used for illegal purposes by previous owners. This is to protect the rights of innocent recipients of those tokens, who might not have known of the illegal activities. Fungibility is - [How the fungibility of fiat currency is being gradually eroded](https://perilli.com/brain/how-the-fungibility-of-fiat-currency-is-being-gradually-eroded/) - Electronic records have reduced the costs of monitoring how we use our money with simple algorithms. Furthermore, increasing anti-money laundering (AML) regulation and efforts by taxation authorities have forced financial institutions worldwide to monitor, and sometimes even reveal, information about the financial activities of their clients. AML regulation in the United States dates back to - [Real estate investments could become an income opportunity for everyone in a web3 tokenized economy](https://perilli.com/brain/real-estate-investments-could-become-an-income-opportunity-for-everyone-in-a-web3-tokenized-economy/) - Tokens could either be issued for existing real estate or for a real estate project under development. Private homeowners could issue fractional tokens of an apartment they want to buy, which would allow them to raise funds without needing to go through a bank or take out a private loan. The token holders would be - [A poison pill strategy to discourage hostile takeovers](https://perilli.com/brain/a-poison-pill-strategy-to-discourage-hostile-takeovers/) - The poison pill tactic has been around since the 1980s and was devised by New York-based legal firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz. The name comes from the poison pill spies carried in the past to avoid being questioned by their enemies in the event they were captured. It was designed as a way to - [Adjustments in dynamic hedging do not alter the expected return; they simply reduce the short-term effects of good and bad luck](https://perilli.com/brain/adjustments-in-dynamic-hedging-do-not-alter-the-expected-return-they-simply-reduce-the-short-term-effects-of-good-and-bad-luck/) - If a trader initiates a hedge but adjusts less frequently or does not adjust at all, how will this affect the outcome? Because theoretical evaluation of options is based on the laws of probability, a trader who initiates a theoretically profitable hedge still has the odds on his side. Although he may lose on any - [How often should a trader rehedge?](https://perilli.com/brain/how-often-should-a-trader-rehedge/) - Given that continuous rehedging is not possible, how often should a trader rehedge? The answer to this question will depend on each trader’s cost structure and risk tolerance. We have already noted that a trader’s transaction costs are likely to affect the frequency at which adjustments are made. Higher transaction costs will often lead to - [The hedge as a race between the loss in time value of the calls and the cash flow resulting from the adjustments](https://perilli.com/brain/the-hedge-as-a-race-between-the-loss-in-time-value-of-the-calls-and-the-cash-flow-resulting-from-the-adjustments/) - We might think of the hedge as a race between the loss in time value of the June 100 calls and the cash flow resulting from the adjustments, with the theoretical pricing model acting as the judge. Under the assumptions of the model, if options are purchased at less than theoretical value, the adjustments will - [Maintaining a neutral hedge](https://perilli.com/brain/maintaining-a-neutral-hedge/) - In our previous discussion of theoretical pricing models, we noted that the purchase or sale of a theoretically mispriced option requires us to establish a neutral hedge by taking an opposing position in the underlying contract. When this is done correctly, for small changes in the price of the underlying contract, the increase or decrease - [Treat the life of an option as a series of bets](https://perilli.com/brain/treat-the-life-of-an-option-as-a-series-of-bets/) - In discussing the performance of a theoretical pricing model, it is important to remember that all models are probability based. Even if we assume that we have all the right inputs into the model and that the model itself is correct, there is no guarantee that we will show a profit on any one trade. - [Gamma as a measure of magnitude risk](https://perilli.com/brain/gamma-as-a-measure-of-magnitude-risk/) - Whereas delta is a measure of directional risk, gamma can be thought of as a measure of magnitude risk. Do we want moves of smaller magnitude (a negative gamma) or larger magnitude (a positive gamma)? Alternatively, gamma also can be thought of as the speed at which we want the market to move. Do we - [Theoretical pricing models help identify discrepancies about the price of the option in the marketplace](https://perilli.com/brain/theoretical-pricing-models-help-identify-discrepancies-about-the-price-of-the-option-in-the-marketplace/) - From our discussion thus far, it ought to be obvious why serious option traders use theoretical pricing models. First, a model tells us something about an option’s value. We can compare this value with the price of the option in the marketplace and from this choose an appropriate strategy. Second, once we have taken a - [New traders are sometimes astonished at the size of the trades an experienced option trader is prepared to make](https://perilli.com/brain/new-traders-are-sometimes-astonished-at-the-size-of-the-trades-an-experienced-option-trader-is-prepared-to-make/) - New traders are sometimes astonished at the size of the trades an experienced option trader is prepared to make. How can the trader afford to do this? His financial resources certainly play a role in the risk he is willing to accept. But equally important is his ability to spread off risk. An experienced trader - [Normal movements vs catastrophic movements in the stock market](https://perilli.com/brain/normal-movements-vs-catastrophic-movements-in-the-stock-market/) - TOMIC is willing to take the risk of normal moves in the market, such as plus or minus 5% price movement, but it reinsures the catastrophic risk beyond. To reinsure this risk, TOMIC could buy out-of-the-money puts on the S&P 500 to protect against a large (25%) downturn in the market. Another alternative to reinsure - [Technical Analysis often fails because it's applied to trendless periods](https://perilli.com/brain/technical-analysis-often-fails-because-its-applied-to-trendless-periods/) - for at least a third of the time, by a conservative estimate, prices move in a flat, horizontal pattern that is referred to as a trading range. This type of sideways action reflects a period of equilibrium in the price level where the forces of supply and demand are in a state of relative balance. - [Each market trend in Technical Analysis is a portion of its next larger trend](https://perilli.com/brain/each-market-trend-in-technical-analysis-is-a-portion-of-its-next-larger-trend/) - Trend is usually broken down into the three categories mentioned in the previous chapter. Those three categories are the major, intermediate, and near term trends. In reality, there are almost an infinite number of trends interacting with one another, from the very short term trends covering minutes and hours to superlong trends lasting 50 or - [The psychology of support and resistance](https://perilli.com/brain/the-psychology-of-support-and-resistance/) - let’s divide the market participants into three categories—the longs, the shorts, and the uncommitted. The longs are those traders who have already purchased contracts; the shorts are those who have already committed themselves to the sell side; the uncommitted are those who have either gotten out of the market or remain undecided as to which - [A 3% share price change might be enough to convince market participants that they did a mistake](https://perilli.com/brain/a-3-share-price-change-might-be-enough-to-convince-market-participants-that-they-did-a-mistake/) - it was stated that support and resistance levels reverse roles only after a significant penetration. But what constitutes significant? There is quite a bit of subjectivity involved here in determining whether a penetration is significant or not. As a benchmark, some chartists use a 3% penetration as a criteria, particularly for major support and resistance - [Traders tend to think in terms of important round numbers, such as 10, 20, 25, 50, 75, 100](https://perilli.com/brain/traders-tend-to-think-in-terms-of-important-round-numbers-such-as-10-20-25-50-75-100/) - Traders tend to think in terms of important round numbers, such as 10, 20, 25, 50, 75, 100 (and multiples of 1000), as price objectives and act accordingly. These round numbers, therefore, will often act as “psychological” support or resistance levels. A trader can use this information to begin taking profits as an important round - [The terms “bull” and “bear”, referred to financial markets, originated in Britain in the early 18th century](https://perilli.com/brain/the-terms-bull-and-bear-referred-to-financial-markets-originated-in-britain-in-the-early-18th-century/) - According to Anatoly Liberman, a linguist at the University of Minnesota, the use of “bull” and “bear” to refer to financial optimists and pessimists, respectively, originated in Britain in the early 18th century. “Bull” evoked the bellowing of an eager buyer. “Bear” appears to have come from an early proverbial expression, “to sell the bear’s - [Friction curve of application delivery](https://perilli.com/brain/friction-curve-of-application-delivery/) - [Charging ten to fifty times what products actually cost to make isn't going to last](https://perilli.com/brain/charging-ten-to-fifty-times-what-products-actually-cost-to-make-isnt-going-to-last/) - The group on the fashion leg visited an apparel factory that was making $ 9 sport coats for the retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, which then sold them at retail for $ 500. The same factory was also selling the coats with a different button pattern directly online for $ 90—and still making a fat profit. - [49% of the top 10,000 largest sellers on Amazon were based in China](https://perilli.com/brain/49-of-the-top-10000-largest-sellers-on-amazon-were-based-in-china/) - 2019: 49 percent of the top ten thousand largest sellers on Amazon were based in China, according to Marketplace Pulse, a research firm that monitors the site. - [When will we not need to do any more mining for car batteries?](https://perilli.com/brain/when-will-we-not-need-to-do-any-more-mining-for-car-batteries/) - Q at the Tesla 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders: "When will we not need to do any more mining for batteries?" Elon Musk: "There's about 2B cars and trucks in use in the world Annual global capacity for vehicles is 100M / year roughly Cars and trucks tend to last about 20y before they go - [The risk of using generic drugs](https://perilli.com/brain/the-risk-of-using-generic-drugs/) - I spent the next 10 years trying to track down the answer. Our health care system relies on generics. My family does, too. But a decade of interviews, meetings with whistleblowers, on-the-ground reporting across four continents and thousands of confidential files -- from the FDA, from generic drug companies and from the courts -- all - [2,000sq ft. houses 3D printed in one week](https://perilli.com/brain/2000sq-ft-houses-3d-printed-in-one-week/) - Icon’s 3-D printed houses use con­crete fram­ing in­stead. Its 15.5-foot-tall print­ers can build the ex­te­rior and in­te­rior wall sys­tem for a 2,000-square-foot, one-story house in a week - [Where are the world’s rare earth elements reserves?](https://perilli.com/brain/where-are-the-worlds-rare-earth-elements-reserves/) - [Stores are like an inexpensive billboard](https://perilli.com/brain/stores-are-like-an-inexpensive-billboard/) - Digital customer acquisition costs—which include Google and Facebook ads, paid search and content creation—are up nearly 50% over the past five years, according to ProfitWell, a software maker that helps subscription companies with customer retention and pricing. “The costs are going up because there are more brands spending more on digital marketing,” said Patrick Campbell, - [Synthesizing DNA costs nine cents a base pair in 2021](https://perilli.com/brain/synthesizing-dna-costs-nine-cents-a-base-pair-in-2021/) - Twist Bioscience, the company that Leproust and the Bills founded, currently synthesizes the longest DNA snippets in the industry, up to 300 base pairs. Called oligos, they can then be joined together to form genes. Today Twist charges nine cents a base pair for DNA, a nearly tenfold decrease from the industry standard a decade - [Can anyone catch the cell phone king?](https://perilli.com/brain/can-anyone-catch-the-cell-phone-king/) - [The average sale price of NFTs is lower than $15 for 75% of the assets on the market](https://perilli.com/brain/the-average-sale-price-of-nfts-is-lower-than-15-for-75-of-the-assets-on-the-market/) - We dig further into these differences by looking at the distribution of NFT prices across categories, which we find to be broadly distributed. We observe that the average sale price of NFTs is lower than 15 dollars for 75% of the assets, and larger than 1594 dollars, for 1% of the assets. Considering individual categories, - [How often an NFT gets resold on the market](https://perilli.com/brain/how-often-an-nft-gets-resold-on-the-market/) - the maximum number of sales for assets in the Utility category is 12, while an asset in the Games category is sold more than a thousand times, and an asset in the Art category more than five thousands times. Note that only 0.07% of all assets are sold more than 10 times. - [How many song streams it would take to make $1 from music royalties](https://perilli.com/brain/how-many-song-streams-it-would-take-to-make-1-from-music-royalties/) - [How grocery shopping is changing after COVID-19](https://perilli.com/brain/how-grocery-shopping-is-changing-after-covid-19/) - [Average hours spent on mobiles per day per user in 2021](https://perilli.com/brain/average-hours-spent-on-mobile-per-day-per-user-in-2021/) - [Top 20 mobile markets in 2021 (by downloads, hours, and consumer spend)](https://perilli.com/brain/top-20-mobile-markets-in-2021-by-downloads-hours-and-consumer-spend/) - [Mobile market competition in 2021](https://perilli.com/brain/mobile-market-competition-in-2021/) - [The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US](https://perilli.com/brain/the-lifespans-of-technological-adoptions-in-the-us/) - [Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Peloton total subscribers](https://perilli.com/brain/apple-amazon-netflix-and-peloton-total-subscribers/) - [Amazon has spent over $100 billion on warehouses since 2020, including 8 out of the 10 largest in the US](https://perilli.com/brain/amazon-has-spent-over-100-billion-on-warehouses-since-2020-including-8-out-of-the-10-largest-in-the-us/) - Over the past two years, the company has more than doubled its warehouse holdings from 192 million square feet at the end of 2019 to more than 410 million square feet today. All that buying is affecting the industrial real estate market. Warehouse vacancies are effectively zero and rents are spiking to record levels around - [Share of newspapers owned by private equity in 2022](https://perilli.com/brain/share-of-newspapers-owned-by-private-equity-in-2022/) - [How the Mobile Phone Market Has Evolved Over 30 Years (2009-2021)](https://perilli.com/brain/how-the-mobile-phone-market-has-evolved-over-30-years-2009-2021/) - [The Most Popular Websites by Web Traffic from 1993 to 2022](https://perilli.com/brain/the-most-popular-websites-by-web-traffic-from-1993-to-2022/) - [Virtual money is much older than cash](https://perilli.com/brain/virtual-money-is-much-older-than-cash/) - The moment one casts matters on a broad historical scale, though, the first thing one learns is that there’s nothing new about virtual money. Actually, this was the original form of money. Credit system, tabs, even expense accounts, all existed long before cash. These things are as old as civilization itself. True, we also find - [The evolution of economy from barter to money is a myth](https://perilli.com/brain/the-evolution-of-economy-from-barter-to-money-is-a-myth/) - For centuries now, explorers have been trying to find this fabled land of barter—none with success. Adam Smith set his story in aboriginal North America (others preferred Africa or the Pacific). In Smith’s defense, at least it could be said that in his time, reliable information on Native American economic systems was unavailable in Scottish - [Contrary to the myth, barter took place between strangers or enemies, not close members of a community](https://perilli.com/brain/contrary-to-the-myth-barter-took-place-between-strangers-or-enemies-not-close-members-of-a-community/) - Ordinarily, it takes place between strangers, even enemies. Let us begin with the Nambikwara of Brazil. They would seem to fit all the criteria: they are a simple society without much in the way of division of labor, organized into small bands that traditionally numbered at best a hundred people each. Occasionally if one band - [Barter is not an ancient phenomenon at all](https://perilli.com/brain/barter-is-not-an-ancient-phenomenon-at-all/) - there is good reason to believe that barter is not a particularly ancient phenomenon at all, but has only really become widespread in modern times. Certainly in most of the cases we know about, it takes place between people who are familiar with the use of money but, for one reason or another, don’t have - [Credit systems preceded the invention of coinage by thousands of years](https://perilli.com/brain/credit-systems-preceded-the-invention-of-coinage-by-thousands-of-years/) - the most shocking blow to the conventional version of economic history came with the translation, first of Egyptian hieroglyphics, and then of Mesopotamian cuneiform, which pushed back scholars’ knowledge of written history almost three millennia, from the time of Homer (circa 800 BC), where it had hovered in Smith’s time, to roughly 3500 BC. What - [Sumerians used silver as money to calculate debt but didn't expect to be paid in silver](https://perilli.com/brain/sumerians-used-silver-as-money-to-calculate-debt-but-didnt-expect-to-be-paid-in-silver/) - It’s easy to see that “money” in this sense is in no way the product of commercial transactions. It was actually created by bureaucrats in order to keep track of resources and move things back and forth between departments. Temple bureaucrats used the system to calculate debts (rents, fees, loans, etc.) in silver. Silver was, - [According to Credit Theory, money was just an abstract unit to measure debt](https://perilli.com/brain/according-to-credit-theory-money-was-just-an-abstract-unit-to-measure-debt/) - Mitchell-Innes was an exponent of what came to be known as the Credit Theory of money, a position that over the course of the nineteenth century had its most avid proponents not in Mitchell-Innes’s native Britain but in the two up-and-coming rival powers of the day, the United States and Germany. Credit Theorists insisted that - [How credit money came about according to Credit Theory](https://perilli.com/brain/how-credit-money-came-about-according-to-credit-theory/) - How could credit money come about? Let us return to the economics professors’ imaginary town. Say, for example, that Joshua were to give his shoes to Henry, and, rather than Henry owing him a favor, Henry promises him something of equivalent value. Henry gives Joshua an IOU. Joshua could wait for Henry to have something - [Possibly, debt and money are concepts that emerged from religion](https://perilli.com/brain/possibly-debt-and-money-are-concepts-that-emerged-from-religion/) - this sense of debt was expressed not through the state but through religion. To make the argument, Aglietta and Orléans fixed on certain works of early Sanskrit religious literature: the hymns, prayers, and poetry collected in the Vedas, and the Brahmanas, priestly commentaries composed over the centuries that followed, texts that are now considered the - [The word "freedom" ("amargi" in Sumer) originally meant "freedom from debt"](https://perilli.com/brain/the-word-freedom-amargi-in-sumer-originally-meant-freedom-from-debt/) - From quite early times, then, Temple administrators developed the habit of advancing goods to local merchants—some of them private, others themselves Temple functionaries—who would then go off and sell it overseas. Interest was just a way for the Temples to take their share of the resulting profits. However, once established, the principle seems to have - [In ancient times, anything could function as money](https://perilli.com/brain/in-ancient-times-anything-could-function-as-money/) - Within a community—a town, a city, a guild or religious society—pretty much anything could function as money, provided everyone knew there was someone willing to accept it to cancel out a debt. To offer one particularly striking example, in certain cities in nineteenth-century Siam, small change consisted entirely of porcelain Chinese gaming counters—basically, the equivalent - [Economics as the exchange of things, governed by a law of reciprocity](https://perilli.com/brain/economics-as-the-exchange-of-things-governed-by-a-law-of-reciprocity/) - In the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, there was something of a craze for this sort of thing, in the guise of what was then called “exchange theory,” developed in infinite variations, from George Homans’ “Social Exchange Theory” in the United States to Claude Levi-Strauss’s Structuralism in France. Levi-Strauss, who became a kind of intellectual god - [The idea of Economics as (just) the exchange of things is reductive and not inclusive](https://perilli.com/brain/the-idea-of-economics-as-just-the-exchange-of-things-is-reductive-and-not-inclusive/) - Reducing all human life to exchange means not only shunting aside all other forms of economic experience (hierarchy, communism), but also ensuring that the vast majority of the human race who are not adult males, and therefore whose day-to-day existence is relatively difficult to reduce to a matter of swapping things in such a way - [Social currencies, extremely important, yet unrelated to trade, predate market currencies and coinage](https://perilli.com/brain/social-currencies-extremely-important-yet-unrelated-to-trade-predate-market-currencies-and-coinage/) - These blinders are all the more ironic when one looks at the anthropological literature on what used to be called “primitive money”—that is, the sort one encounters in places where there are no states or markets—whether Iroquois wampum, African cloth money, or Solomon Island feather money, and discovers that such money is used almost exclusively - [Throughout history, humans alternatively adopted virtual and physical money multiple times](https://perilli.com/brain/throughout-history-humans-alternatively-adopted-virtual-and-physical-money-multiple-times/) - For much of human history, then, an ingot of gold or silver, stamped or not, has served the same role as the contemporary drug dealer’s suitcase full of unmarked bills: an object without a history, valuable because one knows it will be accepted in exchange for other goods just about anywhere, no questions asked. As - [The origin of interest is somehow related to the word "offspring"](https://perilli.com/brain/the-origin-of-interest-is-somehow-related-to-the-word-offspring/) - The origins of interest will forever remain obscure, since they preceded the invention of writing. The terminology for interest in most ancient languages is derived from some word for “offspring,” causing some to speculate that it originates in loans of livestock - [The first coins, invented by private citizens, appeared in the kingdom of Lydia, in western Anatolia (now Turkey), sometime around 600 BC](https://perilli.com/brain/the-first-coins-invented-by-private-citizens-appeared-in-the-kingdom-of-lydia-in-western-anatolia-now-turkey-sometime-around-600-bc/) - What is a coin? The normal definition is that a coin is a piece of valuable metal, shaped into a standardized unit, with some emblem or mark inscribed to authenticate it. The world’s first coins appear to have been created within the kingdom of Lydia, in western Anatolia (now Turkey), sometime around 600 BC. These - [How precious metals like gold, silver, and bronze ended up making the coins for ordinary, non-rich people](https://perilli.com/brain/how-precious-metals-like-gold-silver-and-bronze-ended-up-making-the-coins-for-ordinary-non-rich-people/) - Gold, silver, and bronze—the materials from which coins were made—had long been the media of international trade; but until that time, only the rich actually had much in their possession. A typical Sumerian farmer may well have never had occasion to hold a substantial piece of silver in his hand, except perhaps at his wedding. - [Diffuse costs and concentrated benefits](https://perilli.com/brain/diffuse-costs-and-concentrated-benefits/) - consider a hypothetical law that assessed a $1 tax on everyone in the United States with the proceeds to be given to one individual for unrestricted use as he sees fit. The people harmed by such a law—the individual taxpayers—will not be very motivated to spend the time and effort to convince Congress to change - [How and why China moved from bullions and cash to paper money](https://perilli.com/brain/how-and-why-china-moved-from-bullions-and-cash-to-paper-money/) - Tallies weren’t just used for loans, but for any sort of contract—which is why early paper contracts also had to be cut in half and one half kept by each party. With paper contracts, there was a definite tendency for the creditor’s half to function as an IOU and thus become transferable. By 806 AD, - [Middle Ages Scholastics, like Aristotle, viewed money as a mere social convention](https://perilli.com/brain/middle-ages-scholastics-like-aristotle-viewed-money-as-a-mere-social-convention/) - Europe, as I mentioned, came rather late to the Middle Ages and for most of it was something of a hinterland. Still, the period began much as it did elsewhere, with the disappearance of coinage. Money retreated into virtuality. Everyone continued to calculate costs in Roman currency, then, later, in Carolingian “imaginary money”—the purely conceptual - [While debt among each other was normal for English villagers, it was associated with criminality in government and commerce circles](https://perilli.com/brain/while-debt-among-each-other-was-normal-for-english-villagers-it-was-associated-with-criminality-in-government-and-commerce-circles/) - Cold cash was employed largely between strangers, or when paying rents, tithes, and taxes to landlords, bailiffs, priests, and other superiors. The landed gentry and wealthy merchants, who eschewed handshake deals, would often use cash with one another, especially to pay off bills of exchange drawn on London markets. Above all, gold and silver were - [The history of paper money in Europe starts with the Venetian government levying a compulsory loan to pay for war](https://perilli.com/brain/the-history-of-paper-money-in-europe-starts-with-the-venetian-government-levying-a-compulsory-loan-to-pay-for-war/) - The history of modern financial instruments, and the ultimate origins of paper money, really begin with the issuing of municipal bonds—a practice begun by the Venetian government in the twelfth century when, needing a quick infusion of income for military purposes, it levied a compulsory loan on its taxpaying citizens, for which it promised each - [Fiat money —mere pieces of paper, intrinsically worthless, that were treated as money only because the US insisted that they should be](https://perilli.com/brain/fiat-money-mere-pieces-of-paper-intrinsically-worthless-that-were-treated-as-money-only-because-the-us-insisted-that-they-should-be/) - On August 15, 1971, United States President Richard Nixon announced that foreign-held U.S. dollars would no longer be convertible into gold—thus stripping away the last vestige of the international gold standard. This was the end of a policy that had been effective since 1931, and confirmed by the Bretton Woods accords at the end of - [It's the Fed that had the power to print money, not the US government](https://perilli.com/brain/its-the-fed-that-had-the-power-to-print-money-not-the-us-government/) - Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. government can’t “just print money,” because American money is not issued by the Federal government at all, but by private banks, under the aegis of the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve, in turn, is a peculiar sort of public-private hybrid, a consortium of privately owned banks whose Governing - [The gradual restriction of women's freedom from the Sumerian society to the end of the Bronze Age](https://perilli.com/brain/the-gradual-restriction-of-womens-freedom-from-the-sumerian-society-to-the-end-of-the-bronze-age/) - In the very earliest Sumerian texts, particularly those from roughly 3000 to 2500 BC, women are everywhere. Early histories not only record the names of numerous female rulers, but make clear that women were well represented among the ranks of doctors, merchants, scribes, and public officials, and generally free to take part in all aspects - [Ancient Rome had conquered the world three times: first through its armies, then through its religion, finally through its laws.](https://perilli.com/brain/ancient-rome-had-conquered-the-world-three-times-first-through-its-armies-then-through-its-religion-finally-through-its-laws/) - German legal theorist Rudolf von Jhering famously remarked that ancient Rome had conquered the world three times: the first time through its armies, the second through its religion, the third through its laws. He might have added: each time more thoroughly. The Empire, after all, only spanned a tiny portion of the globe; the Roman - [The irony of modern racism](https://perilli.com/brain/the-irony-of-modern-racism/) - The truly remarkable thing, if one consults the historical record, is that slavery has been eliminated—or effectively eliminated—many times in human history. In Europe, for instance, the institution largely vanished in the centuries following the collapse of the Roman empire—an historical achievement rarely recognized by those of us used to referring to these events as - [There were decades in Chinese history when the rate of recorded peasant uprisings was roughly 1.8 per hour](https://perilli.com/brain/there-were-decades-in-chinese-history-when-the-rate-of-recorded-peasant-uprisings-was-roughly-1-8-per-hour/) - The two great threats to the authorities were always the same: the nomadic peoples to the north (who they systematically bribed, but who nonetheless periodically swept over and conquered sections of China) and popular unrest and rebellion. The latter was almost constant, and on a scale unknown anywhere else in human history. There were decades - [The real origin of the Middle Ages' romantic knight](https://perilli.com/brain/the-real-origin-of-the-middle-ages-romantic-knight/) - It would be instructive, I think, to pause a moment to think about this term, “merchant adventurer.” Originally, it just meant a merchant who operated outside of his own country. It was around this same time, however, at the height of the fairs of Champagne and the Italian merchant empires, between 1160 and 1172, that - [The Church had always been uncompromisingly against usury as a matter of moral rivalry](https://perilli.com/brain/the-church-had-always-been-uncompromisingly-against-usury-as-a-matter-of-moral-rivalry/) - All of this helps explain why the Church had been so uncompromising in its attitude toward usury. It was not just a philosophical question; it was a matter of moral rivalry. Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself. Allow it to expand and it can quickly become a morality so - [About half of all attempted coups d'état fail](https://perilli.com/brain/about-half-of-all-attempted-coups-detat-fail/) - though coups against autocrats have sometimes led to democratization, more often they install a new set of autocratic elites and expose citizens to higher levels of repression. ... The data, again from Powell and Thyne (2011), show that about half of all attempted coups fail. The likelihood of failure varies with time period: 48% of - [The first clear evidence for organised warfare appears only 13,000 years ago](https://perilli.com/brain/the-first-clear-evidence-for-organised-warfare-appears-only-13000-years-ago/) - At the heart of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change possible? Can humans change the way they behave, or does history repeat itself endlessly, with humans forever condemned to re-enact past tragedies without changing anything except the décor? One school of thought - [VR carries the potential for addiction](https://perilli.com/brain/vr-carries-the-potential-for-addiction/) - “The nature of these fantasy worlds is that they feed dopamine into the reward pathways of our brains,” said Anna Lembke, a Stanford University psychiatrist and the author of “Dopamine Nation,” an exploration of addiction in the modern world. “They carry the potential for addiction.” - [3D printing two-bedrooms houses in 24 hours](https://perilli.com/brain/3d-printing-two-bedrooms-houses-in-24-hours/) - In Nacajuca, building a home with Icon’s Vulcan II printer looks much like a massive soft-serve ice cream cone: Layers of lavacrete, the company’s proprietary concrete mix, are poured one after another in long swirls. The printer is controlled by a tablet or smartphone, requires as few as three workers and can complete a home - [Towards the predominance of synthetic actors](https://perilli.com/brain/towards-the-predominance-of-synthetic-actors/) - New companies are using artificial intelligence to create humanlike voices from samples of a living actor’s voice—models that not only can sound like specific performers, but can speak any language, cry, scream, laugh, even talk with their mouths full. At the same time, companies are refining the visual technology so actors look like they are - [Exponential growth of neural networks](https://perilli.com/brain/exponential-growth-of-neural-networks/) - [Paradigms are always incomplete](https://perilli.com/brain/paradigms-are-always-incomplete/) - Paradigms gain their status because they are more successful than their competitors in solving a few problems that the group of practitioners has come to recognize as acute. To be more successful is not, however, to be either completely successful with a single problem or notably successful with any large number. - [Why bothering writing a science book](https://perilli.com/brain/why-bothering-writing-a-science-book/) - When the individual scientist can take a paradigm for granted, he need no longer, in his major works, attempt to build his field anew, starting from first principles and justifying the use of each concept introduced. That can be left to the writer of textbooks. Given a textbook, however, the creative scientist can begin his - [The role and value of "normal" science in respect to a paradigm](https://perilli.com/brain/the-role-and-value-of-normal-science-in-respect-to-a-paradigm/) - The success of a paradigm—whether Aristotle’s analysis of motion, Ptolemy’s computations of planetary position, Lavoisier’s application of the balance, or Maxwell’s mathematization of the electromagnetic field—is at the start largely a promise of success discoverable in selected and still incomplete examples. Normal science consists in the actualization of that promise, an actualization achieved by extending - [The Metaverse](https://perilli.com/brain/metaverse/) - [Why "normal research" is interesting for scientists](https://perilli.com/brain/why-normal-research-is-interesting-for-scientists/) - Though its outcome can be anticipated, often in detail so great that what remains to be known is itself uninteresting, the way to achieve that outcome remains very much in doubt. Bringing a normal research problem to a conclusion is achieving the anticipated in a new way, and it requires the solution of all sorts - [A paradigm doesn't need defining their rules](https://perilli.com/brain/a-paradigm-doesnt-need-defining-their-rules/) - Something of the same sort may very well hold for the various research problems and techniques that arise within a single normal-scientific tradition. What these have in common is not that they satisfy some explicit or even some fully discoverable set of rules and assumptions that gives the tradition its character and its hold upon - [Discovery is a process of conceptual assimilation](https://perilli.com/brain/discovery-is-a-process-of-conceptual-assimilation/) - discovering a new sort of phenomenon is necessarily a complex event, one which involves recognizing both that something is and what it is. - [The cost of training AI in 2021](https://perilli.com/brain/the-cost-of-training-ai-in-2021/) - Given the sheer size of Megatron 530B, training and deploying it into production aren’t easy feats — even for enterprises with massive resources. The model was originally trained across 560 Nvidia DGX A100 servers, each hosting 8 Nvidia A100 80GB GPUs. Microsoft and Nvidia say that they observed between 113 to 126 teraflops per second - [How long before a new scientific theory emerges to address a paradigm crisis](https://perilli.com/brain/how-long-before-a-new-scientific-theory-emerges-to-address-a-paradigm-crisis/) - In each case a novel theory emerged only after a pronounced failure in the normal problem-solving activity. Furthermore, except for the case of Copernicus in which factors external to science played a particularly large role, that breakdown and the proliferation of theories that is its sign occurred no more than a decade or two before - [Scientists only abandon a paradigm when a better one is available](https://perilli.com/brain/scientists-only-abandon-a-paradigm-when-a-better-one-is-available/) - what scientists never do when confronted by even severe and prolonged anomalies. Though they may begin to lose faith and then to consider alternatives, they do not renounce the paradigm that has led them into crisis. They do not, that is, treat anomalies as counterinstances, though in the vocabulary of philosophy of science that is - [The transition from a scientific paradigm in crisis to a new one is a radical transformation](https://perilli.com/brain/the-transition-from-a-scientific-paradigm-in-crisis-to-a-new-one-is-a-radical-transformation/) - The transition from a paradigm in crisis to a new one from which a new tradition of normal science can emerge is far from a cumulative process, one achieved by an articulation or extension of the old paradigm. Rather it is a reconstruction of the field from new fundamentals, a reconstruction that changes some of - [Who invents new paradigms](https://perilli.com/brain/who-invents-new-paradigms/) - Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously these are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules - [How scientists see the world during a scientific revolution](https://perilli.com/brain/how-scientists-see-the-world-during-a-scientific-revolution/) - What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a reinterpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable. A pendulum is not a falling stone, nor is oxygen dephlogisticated air. Consequently, the data that scientists collect from these diverse objects are, as we shall shortly - [Why scientific revolutions tend to be invisible and why scientific discovery tends to be perceived as cumulative](https://perilli.com/brain/why-scientific-revolutions-tend-to-be-invisible-and-why-scientific-discovery-tends-to-be-perceived-as-cumulative/) - to an extent unprecedented in other fields, both the layman’s and the practitioner’s knowledge of science is based on textbooks and a few other types of literature derived from them. Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the language, problem-structure, or - [New paradigms succeed thanks to the arrival of a new generation, not because of the conversion of the existing one](https://perilli.com/brain/new-paradigms-succeed-thanks-to-the-arrival-of-a-new-generation-not-because-of-the-conversion-of-the-existing-one/) - How, then, are scientists brought to make this transposition? Part of the answer is that they are very often not. Copernicanism made few converts for almost a century after Copernicus’ death. Newton’s work was not generally accepted, particularly on the Continent, for more than half a century after the Principia appeared. Priestley never accepted the - [Faith ultimately guides the ones that embrace a new paradigm, not proof](https://perilli.com/brain/faith-ultimately-guides-the-ones-that-embrace-a-new-paradigm-not-proof/) - paradigm debates are not really about relative problem-solving ability, though for good reasons they are usually couched in those terms. Instead, the issue is which paradigm should in the future guide research on problems many of which neither competitor can yet claim to resolve completely. A decision between alternate ways of practicing science is called - [Royal Society's motto](https://perilli.com/brain/royal-societys-motto/) - the Royal Society (one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660) took as its motto ‘Nullius in verba’, which means something like ‘Take no one’s word for it.’ - [The criterion of demarcation between science and non-science](https://perilli.com/brain/the-criterion-of-demarcation-between-science-and-non-science/) - Testability is now generally accepted as the defining characteristic of the scientific method. Popper called it the ‘criterion of demarcation’ between science and non-science. - [The time bomb is ticking for Bluetooth](https://perilli.com/brain/the-time-bomb-is-ticking-for-bluetooth/) - Everything points to Apple taking sound quality very seriously with the AirPods 3, and all of its modern-day audio products for that matter, and the recent launches of Lossless, Hi-Res Lossless and (in a slightly different way) Spatial Audio point to a real push towards higher audio quality. But there’s a catch, as far as - [A clear and simple explanation of why Ethereum needs transactions validation and gas fees](https://perilli.com/brain/a-clear-and-simple-explanation-of-why-ethereum-needs-transactions-validation-and-gas-fees/) - Turing proved that you cannot predict whether a program will terminate by simulating it on a computer. In simple terms, we cannot predict the path of a program without running it. Turing-complete systems can run in “infinite loops,” a term used (in oversimplification) to describe a program that does not terminate. It is trivial to - [Cryptocurrency is a security defense mechanism of a (permissionless) blockchain, not the main feature](https://perilli.com/brain/cryptocurrency-is-a-security-defense-mechanism-of-a-permissionless-blockchain-not-the-main-feature/) - Because there is no central authority controlling who can participate, decentralized consensus systems must defend against Sybil attacks, in which the attacker creates a majority of seemingly independent participants which are secretly under his control. The defense is to ensure that the reward for a successful Sybil attack is less than the cost of mounting - [For every mistake made in the Ethereum world, all participants get a little richer](https://perilli.com/brain/for-every-mistake-made-in-the-ethereum-world-all-participants-get-a-little-richer/) - Sending a transaction to the wrong address will probably burn the ether sent, rendering it forever inaccessible (unspendable), since most addresses do not have a known private key and therefore no signature can be generated to spend it. It is assumed that validation of the address happens at the user interface level. In fact, there - [Writing smart contracts in Ethereum is like aerospace engineering](https://perilli.com/brain/writing-smart-contracts-in-ethereum-is-like-aerospace-engineering/) - Smart contract code is unforgiving. Every bug can lead to monetary loss. You should not treat smart contract programming the same way as general-purpose programming. Writing DApps in Solidity is not like creating a web widget in JavaScript. Rather, you should apply rigorous engineering and software development methodologies, as you would in aerospace engineering or - [Tokens worth more than $2.5M USD are lost forever in attempted transfers to exchanges](https://perilli.com/brain/tokens-worth-more-than-2-5m-usd-are-lost-forever-in-attempted-transfers-to-exchanges/) - The METoken contract knows that Faucet has a balance, but the only way that it can transfer that balance is if it receives a transfer call from the address of the contract. Somehow we need to make the Faucet contract call the transfer function in METoken. If you’re wondering what to do next, don’t. There - [You can't overcome the 90–9–1 rule](https://perilli.com/brain/you-cant-overcome-the-90-9-1-rule/) - User participation often more or less follows a 90–9–1 rule: 90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don't contribute). 9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time. 1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions ... The problem is that the overall system - [A lot of data and the scientific method can do little against a good story](https://perilli.com/brain/a-lot-of-data-and-the-scientific-method-can-do-little-against-a-good-story/) - “What evidence would you need to see to change your mind?” The honest answer to this question is usually: “I need a new story that’s more immediate, more vivid and most of all, more culturally aligned than the one I have now.” It took humans 100,000 years to invent the scientific method. Before that, we - [Emotional stakes in decisions](https://perilli.com/brain/emotional-stakes-in-decisions/) - People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner. — Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel - [The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing](https://perilli.com/brain/the-strongest-guard-is-placed-at-the-gateway-to-nothing/) - The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. - [The specialness spiral](https://perilli.com/brain/the-specialness-spiral/) - This is what we call a specialness spiral. You take an ordinary item and forgo using it once. Because of that, you start to see it as a little more special. But because you see it as a little more special, at the next opportunity to use it, you say, “Well, maybe this is not - [To be an aristocrat is largely to insist that, in the past, others have treated you as an aristocrat](https://perilli.com/brain/to-be-an-aristocrat-is-largely-to-insist-that-in-the-past-others-have-treated-you-as-an-aristocrat/) - We can describe a simple formula here: a certain action, repeated, becomes customary; as a result, it comes to define the actor’s essential nature. Alternately, a person’s nature may be defined by how others have acted toward him in the past. To be an aristocrat is largely to insist that, in the past, others have - [Marketing is creating the conditions for the network effect](https://perilli.com/brain/marketing-is-creating-the-conditions-for-the-network-effect/) - Marketing is product design, customer service, pricing, customer delight and creating and living a remarkable story. Marketing is creating the conditions for the network effect. And yet, the typical CMO isn’t in charge of ANY of those things. - [What's intelligence](https://perilli.com/brain/whats-intelligence/) - Human intelligence is the brain’s ability to learn a model of the world and use it to understand new situations, handle abstract concepts, and create novel behaviors, including manipulating the environment ## Tweets - [1659289732025667584](https://perilli.com/tweets/1659289732025667584/) - RT @_msw_: "Essentially, Meta was giving its A.I. technology away as open-source software" Really, @nytimes editors? If a company is using… - [1659166533342437376](https://perilli.com/tweets/1659166533342437376/) - Can you comment on what you are doing re AI? Sure! You see, Kubernetes is so good... No, look, I really want to talk about your progress in AI. Sure! Let me tell you the story of Linux... - [1659148286371012609](https://perilli.com/tweets/1659148286371012609/) - Question for all technical people in my networks. This is a test and the future of humanity depends on your answer. Let's say that I know NOTHING about programming. Let's say that I want to create a web app that takes an input from users, does some stuff to it, sends it to… https://t.co/cQ7gidBDLs - [1659144621610475522](https://perilli.com/tweets/1659144621610475522/) - RT @ClaireSilver12: so i tried adding math to the end of my usual ai prompt and it did this 🤯 https://t.co/FKfv3hhNKg - [1659125794247958540](https://perilli.com/tweets/1659125794247958540/) - One by one, companies are calling their employees back into the office. I started this thread in Dec 2021 and look at the trajectory we are on now. https://t.co/Ozqn4RCU88 - [1659102001106415616](https://perilli.com/tweets/1659102001106415616/) - This morning, people here in the #UK, woke up to the news that #BT intends to axe up to 55k #jobs by 2030, reducing its total workforce to about 75k-90k between 2028 and 2030. The Guardian suggests that it's, in part because of AI, as BT said that it plans to "take advantage of… https://t.co/xOv7sHrnCE - [1658948882531770373](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658948882531770373/) - Being good at convincing a potential buyer that you are a big deal is WAY more important than being a big deal. - [1658867950034591744](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658867950034591744/) - I *pray* for Apple to release their AR/VR thing next month so that all The AI Guy turn into the The AR/VR Guy and (hopefully) stop polluting my feed. - [1658843197877940230](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658843197877940230/) - @KaliYuga_ai Too late... https://t.co/sg6nJmK7K4 - [1658847974175195136](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658847974175195136/) - Open source projects are incredibly hard work. I wish @StabilityAI great success with Stable Studio. https://t.co/27THtxzXQH - [1658810227414663169](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658810227414663169/) - @ProbablyPriest @sama @GaryMarcus OK. 25% tax on the profit of AI companies around the world to fund the UBI budget. I can see the palpable excitement among startup founders, VCs, shareholders, and executives compensated on performance. In more seriousness, there are many challenges that must be considered about… https://t.co/0hPIhN6PsX - [1658775937113022466](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658775937113022466/) - If you watched TV or opened a newspaper in the last 48h, you know that yesterday the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee had a little chat with OpenAI's CEO, @sama, @GaryMarcus, and a third person, on the oversight of artificial intelligence. During the hearing, the word "jobs" was… https://t.co/rYL2rsvHiw - [1658588627956318211](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658588627956318211/) - Part of my work is knowing who says what about the area I decide to focus on. In the last 7+ years, artificial intelligence. So I have an infrastructure in place that allows me to read (if I manage to) *every single piece of news* about AI and *every single academic research*… https://t.co/crSzvOR9Pi - [1658577615555383296](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658577615555383296/) - And now we know why Midjourney has become so aggressive in censoring image generation. https://t.co/fuyPEqven0 - [1658516067646423041](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658516067646423041/) - I've seen a growing number of AI tools that automate the creation of a presentation deck from a few predefined templates. These tools are useless. They won't make you a better presenter. They won't help you convey the message. They won't make you more confident. After 20 years… https://t.co/CX0ck1waC2 - [1658462506468229121](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658462506468229121/) - Let's try something: Today we are in 1609, not in 2023. Yet, we are using the latest and greatest AI system that tech companies have to offer. Their large language models are used by millions of us around the world to ask questions about the sky, planets, the universe. In… https://t.co/0I19iZ0XEm - [1658404048872124418](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658404048872124418/) - "You’re a user or you’re being used. Best to know which." In the last 3 months, you've seen me starting a newsletter on how AI is impacting our jobs and the way we work*, and you've seen me becoming more and more vocal about the urgency of upskilling yourself. I've said many… https://t.co/GGlKKzg9Rv - [1658214492755337236](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658214492755337236/) - I'm surprised that so few people are talking about @itsfreetelly. Especially among ad people. This is one of the biggest experiments attempted in modern times. https://t.co/OftFAlBquE - [1658206603714109440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658206603714109440/) - The "future of work" is not about any particular tool or location. Those follow trends that come and go. The future of work is about the value of the labor that we contribute to society. That value might be about to change in a radical way. What happens next (without being… https://t.co/YNtowOdscR - [1658170365623820301](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658170365623820301/) - One of the problems in current conversations about the impact of AI on jobs is that the explosion of generative AI has happened exactly at the moment when every company around the world (already battered by COVID) is bracing for a currently-mild recession that could become a… https://t.co/1XrTQLBgNb - [1658163239581102090](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658163239581102090/) - What are the companies that are actually implementing AI (and not just the generative type) to solve business problems? Synthetic Work has a growing database full of them: https://t.co/Fs6vJ22x8e If you want to know what your industry peers (or potential clients) are doing,… https://t.co/ZThmYcAFZs https://t.co/WPnkPQEsy5 - [1658081544852971524](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658081544852971524/) - So. @emroth08 tell us that free TV appliances are coming, courtesy of @ilyaNeverSleeps. The question in my mind is: what can you do with generative AI applied to the concept to revolutionize the business model (and advertising)? First, my initial reaction: as I started my career… https://t.co/X8KZeAjUc5 - [1658041353836584962](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658041353836584962/) - To all people interested in generative AI for voice (aka TTS aka speech synthesis aka synthetic voices): the author of Tortoise TTS, @neonbjb, has published a paper worth reading: https://t.co/BA47IX4MK3 https://t.co/r7hdG55CVQ - [1658033960838995969](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658033960838995969/) - https://t.co/IPu90DqzJg To the neuroscientists and brain experts in my network: what happens, if anything, to our brain when a videogame becomes as realistic as a movie? Is there a difference in how we are impacted compared to a movie? Or not yet because there's no sensory… https://t.co/YhPji7jycQ - [1658031800071999489](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658031800071999489/) - Hey @Flawlessai, do you only serve big Hollywood studios or is there a chance for me to test your tech? See below. https://t.co/Ok793bDSU1 - [1658017877889368065](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658017877889368065/) - Nice 1h, non-technical podcast about AI and large language models with @mpshanahan. I share with Murray a deep interest in neuroscience, consciousness, philosophy, and AI. So this podcast resonated particularly well. https://t.co/zsXPwNENFN - [1658020940544966658](https://perilli.com/tweets/1658020940544966658/) - @hardmaru I think that people have not looked enough in that direction because they don't have the confidence that smaller models will perform as well or better than larger ones. So far, people have learned that bigger is better. And the 1T token rumour associated with GPT-4 doesn't help.… https://t.co/GrRh5jgUu8 - [1657874462430183432](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657874462430183432/) - To all the non-technical people that tried ChatGPT, GPT-4, Stable Diffusion, Dall-E 2 once and never again because what they got out of it was "meh": the way you ask your question to the AI influences the answer you get in a dramatic way. I can't stress this enough. How you… https://t.co/XinFwfjfR1 - [1657801280209801216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657801280209801216/) - Nice article on the Magic Editor, @emroth08. "Call me some type of weird photo purist, but I’m not a fan of editing a photo in a way that would alter my memory of an event. If I was taking a picture of a wedding and the sky was cloudy, I wouldn’t think about swapping it - [1657769344053518339](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657769344053518339/) - Hey @Scobleizer, what have you seen that is reaaaaaaallllyyyyyy good at solving the problem below? (the dubbing problem, not the GPT-4 Web Browsing time-out problem) https://t.co/Ok793bDSU1 - [1657767811890946061](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657767811890946061/) - Today I'm testing the new GPT-4 Web Browsing model. The following use case might be useful to people in #Sales, #Product, and any other person doing #marketresearch. I'm working with a client to show them how they can use AI to: 1. clone their voices 2. translate their video… https://t.co/CSNuGQDnLn https://t.co/l8uQQSxMgT - [1657748284696416258](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657748284696416258/) - Let's dedicate a little longer to the new #ControlNet Reference-only preprocessor for #AUTOMATIC1111 / Vladmandic. Somebody has commented that this technique generates results that look like poor outcomes of a text2img generation. It's really not the case: it's… https://t.co/Es7KnhjPbF https://t.co/1ks799TpFb - [1657691908162957319](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657691908162957319/) - @Scobleizer So, at least 2 people are betting their reputation on this device :) - [1657478892901355523](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657478892901355523/) - Let me close this weekend's study of the new #ControlNet Reference-only preprocessor for #AUTOMATIC1111 / Vladmandic with my favourite fine-tuned #stablediffusion model ever: #analogdiffusion, by @wavymulder as well. To quote the U2: Faraway, So Close! https://t.co/nRLEPtmKHG - [1657476275462610944](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657476275462610944/) - With some more serious effort, I'm getting somewhere: https://t.co/CnGGumbc5i - [1657447446375538688](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657447446375538688/) - Let's switch to Realistic Vision v2.0, my third favourite fine-tuned #stablediffusion model. Again: ControlNet with the new Reference-only preprocessor. Notice how the colours of the background have been influenced by the uniform of Commander Data. And, of course, the facial… https://t.co/3oBMZKeEDc https://t.co/A1eoXd1TEs - [1657438336816906242](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657438336816906242/) - 🚨Nerd and #AIart Alert 🚨 Context I dedicate my weekends to art. And lately, AI art. To generate the covers of each Synthetic Work issue, I use a fantastic fine-tuned version of #stablediffusion called #collagediffusion, by @wavymulder. The point Today, I'm testing a new… https://t.co/7TUbzUFp21 https://t.co/1fWL2iM2Rh - [1657439664129691651](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657439664129691651/) - 🚨Nerd and #AIart Alert 🚨 Context I dedicate my weekends to art. And lately, AI art. To generate the covers of each Synthetic Work issue, I use a fantastic fine-tuned version of #stablediffusion called #collagediffusion, by @wavymulder. The point Today, I'm testing a new… https://t.co/NpiaLoaRbr https://t.co/Bdh9gEQH6J - [1657410476223897601](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657410476223897601/) - @kunalomizer One replacement at a time :) More seriously: should we ever get to this scenario, I think people will still want to have some human beings evaluating the performance of the synthetic executive. Who's gonna pick the right AI to be hired? Or, what if the synthetic executive is… https://t.co/SOJ8gyyy8z - [1657397912492490752](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657397912492490752/) - @darrenmason That's true also for humans, no? And yet, VC firms insist on funding founders that were previously successful, and boards insist on hiring CEOs that were previously successful. It seems like, collectively, we humans respond to your (true) point with a "Yeah yeah. We'll take the… https://t.co/fEuObXDAuF - [1657396751945408513](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657396751945408513/) - @innneresting I don't know :) There are some certainties underpinning this article that I am not so certain about. For example: "A CEO is needed to take responsibility for a company's actions, try to repair its image, and restore public trust. No AI could ever do this." Why not? After 15… https://t.co/9en1GHX4X9 - [1657380722074693640](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657380722074693640/) - .@GaryMarcus turns my questions above into a more explicit statement: https://t.co/7kIayMWO4E - [1657315933507944452](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657315933507944452/) - @ridtalkstech Yes, I know about this and I've talked about it in Synthetic Work, but it's not the same as what I'm talking about it. Tang Yu, as I understand it, is not a model that has been trained to mimic the managerial approach of any successful executive in particular. It's just a model… https://t.co/fmbaBA47Is - [1657298408489492480](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657298408489492480/) - @sergedoub Aren't we "just" algorithms shaped by genes and experience? The challenge (and the opportunity) is capturing Bob Iger's decision-making capabilities (not just in what to do, but in how to say things) today, at the peak of his career, regardless of what made Bob Iger Bob Iger. https://t.co/OM6F32fWe9 - [1657297467442884609](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657297467442884609/) - @shivanshukumar Not in the long term. But at the beginning, this is both a revenue opportunity for executives and a PR opportunity for the company that claims to have appointed the synthetic version of a successful executive. So, if this happens, many alternatives will flood the market at… https://t.co/vJIgXcqBCa - [1657152917705572352](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657152917705572352/) - @Miguel_Thorpe @dragosilinca a.b.s.o.l.u.t.e.l.y. - [1657161410978148353](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657161410978148353/) - RT @neilkatz: This thread is a must read. Totally sci-fi. Less than 5 years away. - [1657151717547409408](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657151717547409408/) - .@thomasfullerNYT and @sapna wrote a remarkable article for @nytimes on TikTok. This passage is exactly what I have in mind when, in the previous tweet, I talk about an AI that follows you across products and services and, because of that, is capable of manipulating your opinions… https://t.co/w7lyNEwNcQ - [1657138281316864000](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657138281316864000/) - @DiandraWrites I still can't... - [1657118503860686850](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657118503860686850/) - @dragosilinca It's a valid question. My answer is that, spontaneously, without me tagging anybody or eliciting a reaction, I got somebody on LinkedIn that commented on this post within 24h saying "I would love to serve virtual Bob Iger, it would easily be in the top 3 CEOs I ever worked for." - [1657120400973746187](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657120400973746187/) - @dragosilinca That's a given in my scenario. If you are a successful executive, you wouldn't do this (even before retiring) unless you first can be convinced that the AI mimics your choices perfectly. Maybe others wouldn't be so scrupulous (which I expect, too), but the greatest executives… https://t.co/HnpJ1PbtHo - [1657119039028711440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657119039028711440/) - @dragosilinca In other words, I believe, and this reply seems to confirm my idea, that people would rather work for a great AI executive than for an incompetent, mediocre human counterpart. We all met one in our careers, didn't we? - [1657111873605586949](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657111873605586949/) - @gpt_guide How much did you test Claude-100k? Can you share some examples? - [1657110527947034624](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657110527947034624/) - Just saved a manager 2-3h of work she would have spent to write a job specification for a position she is not overly familiar with. GPT-4 did itin 2s. She is eternally grateful. It starts like that. And all of a sudden you start to see the immediate potential. And that… https://t.co/bhPqfGGJEW - [1657107353932648454](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657107353932648454/) - @Scobleizer @AnthropicAI Keep me posted? - [1657102466008207362](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657102466008207362/) - @Scobleizer Robert, you are the perfect subject to attempt the experiment. Call @AnthropicAI and see if their new Claude-100k can be used for early attempts of the following: https://t.co/qajnmC5Uao - [1657043956356599808](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657043956356599808/) - My social networks count a lot of #sales professionals. Some of the hardest-working people I have ever met. So here's a message for you: your #career depends on AI. Learn AI. Now. Not the technical stuff. Don't waste time with that. Learn how to use the AI to get your job done.… https://t.co/8k0lEjEKoz - [1657049899505012739](https://perilli.com/tweets/1657049899505012739/) - The long-term play is that an AI system becomes your AI and follows you across systems. Today, you can reuse the same account (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.) across multiple sites and services, keeping your identity wherever you go. Tomorrow, your identity will also… https://t.co/CbvJU7pJNH - [1656987353796288517](https://perilli.com/tweets/1656987353796288517/) - Synthetic Work Issue #12 is out! In the Free Edition, titled ChatGPT Sucks at Making Signs: - Ford’s CEO doesn’t think he can upskill his entire workforce quick enough: I don’t think they are going to make it. Ford employees, if you are reading this: surpriseeeeee!!! -… https://t.co/nAE2I9dAgF - [1656988494969942018](https://perilli.com/tweets/1656988494969942018/) - .@DiandraWrites I mentioned you in this issue of Synthetic Work. If you are interested, please open your DMs for a moment and share your email. I'd be more than happy to send this copy of the newsletter. P.s.: love Star Trek! - [1656772602637983747](https://perilli.com/tweets/1656772602637983747/) - The only truly significant news of the week. https://t.co/OAMuKhVqfh - [1656761102892429338](https://perilli.com/tweets/1656761102892429338/) - One thing that I want to make clear: AI is coming for people in the top management positions of large organizations, too. When we talk about the impact of AI on jobs or, more specifically potential job displacement, we normally think about the bottom of the corporate hierarchy,… https://t.co/Bc8upnrgtC - [1656726612711178254](https://perilli.com/tweets/1656726612711178254/) - RT @vkhosla: From the https://t.co/GYR7vycymP https://t.co/AclTvdRgib - [1656718781186449409](https://perilli.com/tweets/1656718781186449409/) - @GaryMarcus I have an entire newsletter dedicated to that: https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo I'm happy to send you tomorrow's issue with all the latest stories. If you want, send me your email address via DM. - [1656721921319358464](https://perilli.com/tweets/1656721921319358464/) - Two big issues of Synthetic Work out tomorrow with multiple stories (both positive and negative) on how AI is impacting jobs and the way we work. Things are definitely accelerating. Subscribe today to get it in your inbox tomorrow: https://t.co/DsnASnjI3G - [1654262918030979074](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654262918030979074/) - Repeat after me: open source, in itself, is not a moat. https://t.co/1KOx8KoF37 - [1654253898939392000](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654253898939392000/) - More Realistic Vision v2.0 #stablediffusion. Human emotions are hard to express. Way less realistic than the others, IMO, but not immediately improbable. https://t.co/dJdAtIfG1i - [1654173432827740181](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654173432827740181/) - Even if everything in this leaked Google document is true, and it is, the large majority of open source projects struggle to win the audience over because of the enormous friction in consuming them. Something that very few open source communities understand or care about.… https://t.co/UzjPH9Z4VQ - [1654168286697750532](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654168286697750532/) - That’s why Microsoft is rushing people to Edge and Bing. That’s why nothing will be paused. They must arrive before open source AI catches up. > Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" https://t.co/WAHsIriwhT - [1654143613654253569](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654143613654253569/) - The next Free Edition of Synthetic Work is out tomorrow, like every Friday. If you want to receive it for free in your inbox you have to subscribe today. https://t.co/DsnASnjI3G https://t.co/Kmuio2Y32Q - [1654111174613499904](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654111174613499904/) - @that1guy_15 You might want to read this week's Free Edition of Synthetic Work (out tomorrow), as more than one CEO seems to like the idea of doing that. (if you paid close attention to the news in the last 2 weeks, you know what I'm talking about) - [1654104997313871878](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654104997313871878/) - Soon at a conference for executive leadership near you: "How to tell your employees that they are being replaced by AI without causing all-time low morale for those who remain, a mass exodus, or people simply hating your brand" - [1654106449591558144](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654106449591558144/) - Business leaders should not assume that just because people love AI they will be OK when AI is used against them. And since it's not just one category of workers that we are talking about here, but all workers and all at the same time, the risk for a revolt won't be zero. - [1654021645105872896](https://perilli.com/tweets/1654021645105872896/) - @gen_ericai Very soon, very many people will realize that it's a bad idea to rely on somebody else to tell you what you can and can't draw (or write, or sing). If you can share the banned prompt here, or in DM, please do. - [1653867617709375488](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653867617709375488/) - Generative AI is not just an exceptional new technology. It's a technology that has reignited intellectual debate on many fronts: the meaning of art, the nature of intelligence, the value of work, how to educate, the shape of future societies, and more. https://t.co/15EDJxVvad - [1653860798157017088](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653860798157017088/) - Generative AI is not just an exceptional new technology. It's a technology that has reignited intellectual debate on many fronts: the meaning of art, the nature of intelligence, the value of work, the shape of future societies, and more. - [1653809318569947148](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653809318569947148/) - I use a different email address for every service I sign up for. So I always know how a company ended up spamming me without permission. I'm now getting @HashiCorp spam I never signed up for to my @github email address. Please don't do this @armon and @mitchellh. - [1653801675897946113](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653801675897946113/) - Now, this is something you all have to brace for: an ocean of inbound proposals to implement GPT-4 (what does it mean exactly) from outsourcing companies. We'll be flooded by these. In this particular case, clearly, this company has not yet applied the expertise in generative… https://t.co/SAvPEo0Ei3 https://t.co/ASTbHFtHG1 - [1653787312575111171](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653787312575111171/) - Should we just give diffusion models the measures of all the objects in the world? We have those... - [1653783656224153601](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653783656224153601/) - AI needs more prompting to do great things for you and many of those great things we have not yet discovered. This is why I enabled a new section of Synthetic Work called How to Prompt. An example? This is from one of the dozen academic papers I read every week. From the Johns… https://t.co/nmtia3tl4E - [1653777818726158336](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653777818726158336/) - Just 2y ago, I asked a friend how an analysis firm that shall not be named was doing its research on AI. I was answered that they were exclusively looking at the offerings of the three major cloud service providers. 😮 I read dozens of research papers/week and AI innovation is… https://t.co/TuvSls2KaK - [1653751781652930562](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653751781652930562/) - Reusable rockets, self-driving cars, generative AI, maybe even fusion energy. NONE of these things is in the Future. The Future is a place where passwords are extinct 🦖 - [1653754877678350339](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653754877678350339/) - Told you that this would end up being a long thread. Again: this is just the warm-up phase. Microsoft will do everything in their power to drive traffic to Edge and Bing as long as they can hold the competitive edge thanks to OpenAI. And as long as that happens, they will stuff… https://t.co/fW0wE5y8Lz https://t.co/xIHpQ9E7vB - [1653753967120113664](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653753967120113664/) - Told you that this would end up being a long thread. Again: this is just the warm-up phase. Outlook and Teams to ignore default web browser, open links in Edge instead. https://t.co/dVnM0ZTSOU https://t.co/HsZJKcXWIJ - [1653729760273367040](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653729760273367040/) - @eval0 @tristanharris @aza Ty. I know they do, but I am talking about the non-thought leaders, the AI professionals that are not dedicate to AI ethics like them, the non-tech people, the press. All those people that, all things equal, prefer to talk about AGI. - [1653707802148257794](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653707802148257794/) - Mark my words: the addition of ultrarealistic synthetic voices to AI models like ChatGPT/GPT-4 will be another quantum leap in how people interact with AI. Not because it will give us even more capabilities, but because it will create an emotional bonding. And that will have… https://t.co/rU9p0QaErO - [1653721383015260168](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653721383015260168/) - As I get invitations for interviews, panel or podcast participations, or Twitter Spaces, I am amazed that everyone is fixated on the fear of this intangible (and potentially unreachable) AGI when there are very tangible reasons to be fixated on the AI that is already here. My… https://t.co/RzigMzWjP3 - [1653707210369687554](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653707210369687554/) - Mark my words: the addition of ultrarealistic synthetic voices to AI models like ChatGPT/GPT-4 will be another quantum leap in how people interact with AI. Not because it will give us even more capabilities, but because it will create an emotional bonding. And that will have… https://t.co/wLPE075KJg - [1653705286211850240](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653705286211850240/) - "Here 8 examples of horses I like". From that moment on, the AI model creates as many images of horses as you need for your slide deck or marketing brochure. Want to pass that "knowledge about horses" to your colleagues so they can generate images of horses, too? Just email it. - [1653703437161226241](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653703437161226241/) - If the technique in this new research is as good as it looks, creating customized generative AI models might become easy to do even for the least technical people and very affordable. https://t.co/ZjVfQLtYp0 - [1653694846937251840](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653694846937251840/) - Per gli amici Italiani, ecco il nuovo episodio di Le Voci dell'AI, in collaborazione con @01net. Padroneggiare l'AI e' diventato imperativo per rimanere competitivi. Sia a livello aziendale che a livello individuale. https://t.co/bAo2vdG5bv https://t.co/xYK11lwhon - [1653679350217048064](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653679350217048064/) - Compare this result with what you can achieve with Analog Diffusion 1.0 (what I still consider the best fine-tuned #stablediffusion model ever released): https://t.co/Uqyioaigta - [1653669679968272385](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653669679968272385/) - Amazon researchers are experimenting with generative AI to allow all of us to virtually try out clothes, wearable items, and furniture without the need for 3D or virtual reality. Take a look. In one way or another, virtual try-out is key for the next leap in e-commerce. https://t.co/EsSKyLiB8v - [1653528076511334402](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653528076511334402/) - What's the impact on the morale (and the loyalty) of the employees when their employer announces that their jobs will be replaced by AI (whether the employer will succeed or not is irrelevant)? What domino effect will it trigger among competitors? Remember that on social media… https://t.co/7dxCzqy96u - [1653510223972257792](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653510223972257792/) - Finally, I had some time to try the new Realistic Vision v2.0, a text-to-image fine-tuned AI model based on #StableDiffusion. https://t.co/jSxIA9lZdK - [1653510855059750912](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653510855059750912/) - This picture, together with a curated selection of others (way more exceptional than this), is available in the section of Synthetic Work dedicated to synthetic media: https://t.co/Y5xCSPX2iB https://t.co/CD3Wp9MOUh - [1653503798814429185](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653503798814429185/) - If Twitter ranking boosts long impression and external links are donwranked (as leave quickly), then this place might soon become full of puppy pictures and cat videos. - [1653469562174836736](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653469562174836736/) - @Merzmensch It's clearly working. Look at the counter. - [1653460451169058835](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653460451169058835/) - I'm sure that Samsung employees will happily comply with the GPT-4 ban. They don't need AI to do their job 10x faster in marketing, sales, product management, AR, PR, accounting, legal. They'll be fine. - [1653455070875222065](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653455070875222065/) - 👀 https://t.co/JRJ4BkH4Lu - [1653443100440768517](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653443100440768517/) - This is the much-awaited TED Talk on how Khan Academy is using GPT-4 in partnership with OpenAI to evolve the education platform. I'll mention it in this week's Issue of https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY. When you'll watch it, you'll realize how the addition of a synthetic voice would have… https://t.co/dhth74cHHJ - [1653445623301931013](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653445623301931013/) - This is the much-awaited TED Talk on how Khan Academy is using GPT-4 in partnership with OpenAI to evolve the education platform. I'll mention it in this week's Issue of Synthetic Work. When you'll watch it, you'll realize how the addition of a synthetic voice would have a… https://t.co/xJr2EhmXSX - [1653313634053890048](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653313634053890048/) - @SuB8u We'll see about that @KLM. The reason why you and other companies do customer service here is not because it's convenient and low(er) cost for you. It's because customer complaints not addressed on Twitter risk going viral and resulting in major reputational damage. You are doing… https://t.co/9bsnHRBkJE - [1653167922410409984](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653167922410409984/) - @JosephJacks_ The two forces that are reshaping everything we know about how to do business (cost of entry, business model, competitiveness) are open source and AI. It's easy to screw up with both. I've seen it with my own eyes. Up close. Really close. Learn from the past. Dig deeper to… https://t.co/zBgHdNMeiZ - [1653160415273050112](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653160415273050112/) - A really good question. The performance of the world AI cannot depend on ONE vendor and its architecture. We've seen this movie before and it doesn't end up well. CUDA must have a really strong open source multiplatform alternative. https://t.co/hXcg5D7ivO - [1653162562526035970](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653162562526035970/) - How fun is to selectively listen to a luminary that thinks like you but not to another that disagrees? Or to the same luminary but only when, in the early days, he said what matches your worldview today? Or to say "it's just math" but then not listen to the math expert at all. - [1653152134202814467](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653152134202814467/) - This is why I'm writing https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY: "IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do Roughly 7,800 IBM jobs could be replaced by AI in coming years" https://t.co/HMmwmO7sMs - [1653143221176811522](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653143221176811522/) - The Godfather of AI, after leaving Google, gives an interview to the New York Times and says: "He is also worried that A.I. technologies will in time upend the job market. Today, chatbots like ChatGPT tend to complement human workers, but they could replace paralegals, personal… https://t.co/plCHYeilII - [1653133496301264900](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653133496301264900/) - We can now create worlds. But we can't imagine worlds just yet. - [1653066283393380352](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653066283393380352/) - See this? This is somebody that actually read one entire issue of Synthetic Work. I'm very proud. https://t.co/JNLecyBkAk https://t.co/Am8ZlZLoiG - [1653016366130122754](https://perilli.com/tweets/1653016366130122754/) - When a big company publishes updates on social media & the only people liking them are the company employees, it's a bad sign. When that happens for 10 years in a row, it's a really bad sign. Remember that company can continue to run by inertia for over a decade. Until they die. - [1652950012605636610](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652950012605636610/) - The World Economic Forum released the results of their Future of Jobs Report: ~23% of jobs are expected to change by 2027, with 69M new jobs created and 83M eliminated. This is why I write Synthetic Work. The world is transforming. Let's understand how. https://t.co/DsnASnjI3G. - [1652778326157586439](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652778326157586439/) - Among other things, I dedicated this weekend to testing @vmandic00 fork of #AUTOMATIC1111. The performance is really good, even without esoteric optimizations for Apple Silicon, and it's constantly updated. I've used it to redo some Synthetic Work covers: https://t.co/lqHNXqqDDZ https://t.co/iUNQEDD0QO - [1652780987925905408](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652780987925905408/) - Before Dall-E 2 and Stable Diffusion came to be last Summer, nobody was wondering about art and its meaning, except the very few in the art industry and academic circles. At least now, a gazillion of people is confronted with the question. That is the best outcome one could hope. - [1652765723318468609](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652765723318468609/) - 👀 https://t.co/OKEiuWepJt - [1652760823243108358](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652760823243108358/) - I'm writing a newsletter about how AI is changing how we work and our jobs *for the people*, but it's very rewarding to see that after a few weeks CEOs of large companies are signing up. It must be because I show how to use GPT-4 to write layoff announcements. - [1652730789291859968](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652730789291859968/) - @mmmmmmpc @llunved I can point to a few different university teachers that are mandating or encouraging their students to use ChatGPT/GPT-4 for their assignments. If that's what you meant, @llunved. It's a minority, tho. As I wrote in the first issue of Synthetic Work, many schools had a… https://t.co/qlNlJVmOwO - [1652738085333921792](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652738085333921792/) - Working on a new tool for paid members of Synthetic Work. Formal announcement this Friday. As usual, the subscription button is here: https://t.co/DsnASnjI3G https://t.co/RpTONhK9mO https://t.co/HizunM49oO - [1652717085322104833](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652717085322104833/) - If you think that music labels are not already training an AI to generate the most popular song ever produced in the last 50 years, you are out of your mind. Drake/UMG takedown requests are just to a distraction. AI Hits - AI Music Top Charts https://t.co/YzkvoqMDtL - [1652696875814866946](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652696875814866946/) - 🤞 https://t.co/fkC7zA0F4A - [1652688641011875842](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652688641011875842/) - 👀 https://t.co/sqbCTESlNB - [1652692196317904898](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652692196317904898/) - I hope. https://t.co/iOtaKyuPIl - [1652635771818344450](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652635771818344450/) - If you ever studied the Middle Ages in school and, at that time, you couldn't figure out the dynamics behind religious fervor, zealots, paladins, heretic- and witch-hunting etc. you just have to look at what's happening with AI today. - [1652611535120809984](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652611535120809984/) - Hey @play_ht team. Can anybody reach out over DM? I have an idea I'd like to discuss. - [1652560269833371648](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652560269833371648/) - @Scobleizer If I could subscribe each and every one of the words in this tweet, I would. I have a very special list called "OpenStack Zealots". Over the years, people in that list, silently, discreetly shifted their paladin support from OpenStack to Kubernetes to other nasty technology. I… https://t.co/QXJgmXh2Iw - [1652033792742137858](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652033792742137858/) - My quest to get rich quickly continues. This time with the help of #StableVicuna, just released by @carperai. If LLaMA won the prize for the most dishonest answer, and Dolly 2.0 won the prize for the most creepily specific, this LLM wins for the most impractical. #cliffhanger https://t.co/4Qbw2Ekmti - [1652030257564622863](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652030257564622863/) - @emollick Can you force their invocation with a specific prompt? (I don't have access yet) - [1652025474711691290](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652025474711691290/) - Now, that's a very interesting question. I'm confident that this question is also in the minds of OpenAI and every other company training foundation models. They must improve what we see today (if it's possible). The momentum won't last forever. So, on one side, there's now… https://t.co/zva4VCSw8e - [1652016474431602693](https://perilli.com/tweets/1652016474431602693/) - I have a feeling that this will be a long, long thread. Let's add one more piece: https://t.co/mPGYBssDVa https://t.co/zWwGmu013V - [1651961301734768642](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651961301734768642/) - @shadbush It's in your inbox now. - [1651956411130101761](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651956411130101761/) - @shadbush Reach out over DM with an email address, and I'll be happy to send you a copy of the Splendid Edition. - [1651932411175882752](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651932411175882752/) - Every week I thank the people that *involuntarily* provided involuntary material for the Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work. This week: @PwC, @CocaCola, @sharongoldman, @dani_lsc, @BrendoCasey, @PactumAi, @luwangnyc, and @justinaknope. - [1651931209700712453](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651931209700712453/) - Every week I thank the people that *involuntarily* provided involuntary material for the Free Edition of Synthetic Work. This week: @shadbush, @WorkerInfoX, @GuardianHeather, @erikbryn (& team), @joecoscarelli, @Grimezsz, @hollyherndon, @jenny____ai, @cupidbotai, @blackmirror - [1651908784556482560](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651908784556482560/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled Issue #10 - The Memory of an Elephant Read it here: https://t.co/ziLbyuVzhB https://t.co/o4bsZIOTJW - [1651902467943038976](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651902467943038976/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Splendid Edition is titled Issue #10 - The Fed Whisperer Read it here: https://t.co/XXIesbarQM https://t.co/q0e3TXfm4Q - [1651857468102770689](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651857468102770689/) - 1/ Amazing set of synthetic colour photos from the Belle Époque period in France by @kudzueye. In this case, he/she/they used a combination of MidJourney and Stable Diffusion. Education would greatly benefit from this. https://t.co/Tzr8aOTQi1 - [1651857469772013568](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651857469772013568/) - 2/ https://t.co/My3tc5CQxm - [1651668697671450628](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651668697671450628/) - And that's what I meant by "completely expected": https://t.co/R6NOTctXbs - [1651664055789056001](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651664055789056001/) - RT @benedictevans: More generally - the less experience you have of big companies, big tech companies, and how IT orgs actually work, the… - [1651645348190863360](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651645348190863360/) - I have 20 years of experience with #WordPress. I used it and still use it today for every web project I have. I love it (the business model, the plug-in system, the amazing documentation). BUT. Creating custom post types, taxonomies, and fields would be a nightmare with ACF.… https://t.co/QwS7sqU2UV - [1651648206458048521](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651648206458048521/) - If you don't pivot to AI you are a loser 🫠 https://t.co/xFCFM5JceJ - [1651619705835208704](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651619705835208704/) - This is the AI stuff worth exploring. If you are a ML researcher, I'd definitely pay attention. https://t.co/6hoeKEAT1U - [1651620351741239299](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651620351741239299/) - Good to see that @GaryMarcus is not the only one calling out Fantasyland statements. https://t.co/TkiFVwNkEO - [1651554107998576640](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651554107998576640/) - The wonderful people at @memberful decided to write a great article about why I decided to start my Synthetic Work newsletter and what it's all about. Memberful has been one of the best business partners I ever had and it has been from day 1. https://t.co/L8qKIwsuay https://t.co/SkTIpwu2RC https://t.co/r86vHjnynu - [1651511462639157249](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651511462639157249/) - Here's the scenario you need to grapple with: a grad student with meaningful experience with GPT-4, and well-versed in prompting, being significantly faster & able to produce significantly more output than most white collar workers currently employed by the company. What now? - [1651496231720370178](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651496231720370178/) - Corporations banning their employees from using GPT-4 is a déjà vu: In the early days of cloud computing, corporations did the same with AWS, due to valid concerns about compliance, data privacy, cost management, etc. But the benefits of using AWS were so huge and so evident to… https://t.co/NOqFX0ndea - [1651491065755475969](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651491065755475969/) - For example, this is a research that I'd pay attention to: https://t.co/SYba9pQT5p - [1651316070211362816](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651316070211362816/) - .@DeepFloydIF model release imminent. And you thought you could go to sleep. Fools. https://t.co/A7NItcUm4P - [1651297623976837142](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651297623976837142/) - THE documentary is back for another season: https://t.co/kqlzLP8Pkn - [1651241171094749184](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651241171094749184/) - Per gli amici Italiani, ecco il nuovo episodio de Le Voci dell'AI, il mio video podcast in collaborazione con @01net. Questa settimana parliamo degli errori che ho visto commettere piu' frequentemente da alcune delle aziende piu' grandi del mondo quando hanno tentato di… https://t.co/u432bxsCGp https://t.co/5Zt7ZtXjHO - [1651174805784199169](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651174805784199169/) - The new AI Adoption Tracker is coming up nicely. This is something I wanted to do for 20 years, not just about AI, but about any emerging technology: be able to track what organizations in what industry are using emerging tech X from what technology provider for what use case.… https://t.co/OdgJZ4dMka https://t.co/zf1J6Qw979 - [1651158804455649280](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651158804455649280/) - 🌐 Educators & school admins worldwide: Equip your students for the future by revamping your computer science programs. Prioritize Python programming 🐍 & prompt engineering 🛠️ - two indispensable skills. Let's make a difference today for tomorrow's leaders. #FutureReady - [1651142869069996034](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651142869069996034/) - @Scobleizer @acheyer Re @acheyer comment in the video: I 100% agree and see beyond that. That's why I created https://t.co/7m1GuT6S6F in 2017. It's still mostly dormant, as don't have the funding to expand it as it deserves yet, but it will eventually become a primary research hub. - [1651145133029457920](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651145133029457920/) - RT @wintonARK: "It's much easier to get the next quarter, and the current FY right though." Sure, but there are ~30 analysts all publishin… - [1651138787148279808](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651138787148279808/) - I always smile when I read somebody on social media saying that company X is an AI sleeping giant (implying that they sit on a lot of data that would train amazing models). As I said for years, there's only one AI sleeping giant: @YouTube No other company on the planet has an… https://t.co/3b9GM3fu6o - [1651133569840959490](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651133569840959490/) - 👀 https://t.co/5g2shhT64w - [1651131280363274247](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651131280363274247/) - Not only, most AI tools polluting social media networks are doing the same identical thing, but they are also being called in the same identical way. Everything is somethingGPT. Now we got to a point where both fine-tuned models and aggregators of models are called somethingGPT,… https://t.co/WyqXL6zyGB - [1651132271494148102](https://perilli.com/tweets/1651132271494148102/) - And on this point: “Another danger is that a lot of people might find themselves completely out of a job, not just temporarily, but lacking the basic skills for the future job market. We might reach a point where the economic system sees millions of people as completely useless.… https://t.co/GXHLGelsaj - [1650980286723764237](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650980286723764237/) - I never really used @vivaldibrowser web panels. I know some people love them, but they kind of get in the way when you already have vertical tabs (which I love). But once I realized that I could put GPT-4 in it... https://t.co/reZyZ1Ue3O https://t.co/SOOtfg7D5H - [1650986664028774400](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650986664028774400/) - I designed Synthetic Work with two audiences in mind: line of business workers & non-tech professional AND decision makers & small business owners. A side effect of tailoring content for those audiences is that Synthetic Work can be a way for entrepreneurs building AI startups… https://t.co/e7Zpw6APQC - [1650949476746424345](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650949476746424345/) - @sivajisahoo @emollick Perhaps executives at Microsoft think in that way. But I bet anything you want that Amazon executives don't see AI as the ultimate prize. It's not how the company has operated throughout its history (see my other reply to @emollick). IMO Amazon sees generative AI as the next… https://t.co/pdTQ5e1kZV - [1650947803529527297](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650947803529527297/) - @emollick Amazon's strategy has always been to accommodate market trends vs imposing an "opinionated" approach to X. Do customers want 3 different alternatives? No problem. They'll offer all 3. We've seen this in the compute space with VMs/containers/serverless functions, within the… https://t.co/QtV8yeJHRP - [1650941335602360330](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650941335602360330/) - @pretendsmarts No. https://t.co/9ErhwCNsT9 - [1650942856339640320](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650942856339640320/) - I'm reviewing what happened in AI land in the last 8h while I was busy writing the Free Edition of Synthetic Work, and I'm thinking about millions of corporate workers frantically writing slide decks full of bullet points that nobody cares about, not realising what's coming.… https://t.co/Noy7yAh4hk - [1650943586324627457](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650943586324627457/) - @elonmusk @paulg So, terraforming Mars would be easier than building this? - [1650934797039030272](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650934797039030272/) - If you don't launch your own LLM you are a loser 🫠 https://t.co/ese9W5RLD9 - [1650934192799096833](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650934192799096833/) - If you have read this new article by the great @kyle_l_wiggers (the relevant quote below), my tweet might start to make sense: https://t.co/RnSyuovqH9 "OpenAI previously telegraphed that it was exploring additional paid plans for ChatGPT as the service quickly grows."… https://t.co/XPW97loccs - [1650924344145502208](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650924344145502208/) - I'm in shock. I tell you, in shock. > Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing https://t.co/oyP1TYpmsH - [1650896462144847879](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650896462144847879/) - @Grimezsz The only smart move for any artist that understands what is about to happen. I'll mention your proposal in this week's Free Edition of Synthetic Work: https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo - [1650874962847170560](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650874962847170560/) - It took slightly longer than expected, but yeah. SciFi achievement unlocked @Cruise! For the occasion, I'd like to resuscitate Syndicate, the immortal Bullfrog game. (yes, I'm that old) https://t.co/E7G2xLMg7X https://t.co/cJgRCN3JaO - [1650860396079882242](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650860396079882242/) - .@WorkerInfoX published a very interesting investigation on automated dismissals (or robo-firing) used by @JustEatUK. I'll mention it in this week's Free Edition of Synthetic Work: https://t.co/QzcGe16OlW https://t.co/N6e2SofFs9 - [1650854343896072192](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650854343896072192/) - @WorkerInfoX Very interesting report, @WorkerInfoX. I'll mention it in this week's Free Edition of Synthetic Work: https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo - [1650614208046694400](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650614208046694400/) - Something I am preparing for the Splendid Edition members of Synthetic Work. Super-early work in progress, no support for mobile, ugly colors, etc. https://t.co/hGSP29JvlK - [1650557762655379472](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650557762655379472/) - Saturate Every Platform™ https://t.co/UtLiQr8tNx - [1650551084694351872](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650551084694351872/) - People start to struggle to tell the difference between real and AI-generated. I bet that this is just the beginning. In some cases, it won't matter. In others, the uncertainty will matter immensely. There's a reason why I called my new company Unstable Reality. https://t.co/rN4d92AaQb - [1650547776843915264](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650547776843915264/) - Well done, @GOVUK and @StabilityAI. https://t.co/E8xrakvmDM - [1650536862606405633](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650536862606405633/) - So, MIT called to arrange an interview about this FLI Open Letter I signed for a certain project. I'm happy to help and explain my motivations so I accepted. At the end of the interview, I asked what other people interviewed for the project said, and I'm told that some were… https://t.co/kAcK5CIyMH - [1650531292134400005](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650531292134400005/) - @samcharrington don't bother. - [1650520661276729344](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650520661276729344/) - Don't say that I didn't warn you. - [1650435411808747521](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650435411808747521/) - Need state of the art voice transcription with AI? @OpenAI gave you Whisper. Need state of the art voice transcription with AI 70x faster? @sanchitgandhi99 gave you Whisper JAX. Need state of the art voice trascription with AI 70x faster right now? @camenduru gave you this: https://t.co/USIBF8TVHY - [1650429101344169984](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650429101344169984/) - @MikhailBurtsev @yurakuratov Shame we don't understand well enough how human long-term memory works. It would be interesting to try and calculate the total number of tokens that a human can "store" in a lifetime. Or, perhaps, the number of tokens that constitute his/her personality and core beliefs, etc. - [1650430638355300352](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650430638355300352/) - Now the question is: can you build a complete personality with 2M tokens? If yes: Job of the future: synthetic personality designer. If no: How many more tokens are necessary? https://t.co/LNjKWS9lpw - [1650430078558281730](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650430078558281730/) - See? This is why we need #StableLM and other open source AI models. So we can transparently test the implications of this before a mass deployment inside Office or whatever. https://t.co/LNjKWS9lpw - [1650431630786396160](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650431630786396160/) - The smartest artists are the ones that use AI to multiply their reach, not the ones that sue to death. https://t.co/oCUEi8rArI - [1650419957312700422](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650419957312700422/) - Something to think about deeply as you start the week: Some GPT-4 users will soon get a version of the AI with a much larger "memory". It might cost a bit more, but it'll be able to carry on a coherent conversation for hours or it'll be able to write multi-page documents in a… https://t.co/U1iO0fwaGW - [1650405384224374786](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650405384224374786/) - This is what I mean when I say that, in AI, almost every week, you go to bed and, the morning after, you discover that somebody has announced some major progress in this or that area and you have to read and test a ton of stuff. What's the takeaway? Don't go to bed. https://t.co/6BLYjUU8DY - [1650406024753426433](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650406024753426433/) - This is what I mean when I say that, in AI, almost every week, you go to bed and, the morning after, you discover that somebody has announced some major progress in this or that area and you have to read and test a ton of stuff. What's the takeaway? Don't go to bed. https://t.co/LNjKWS9lpw - [1650260992297783299](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650260992297783299/) - Step 1: stop talking to people next to you IRL to talk to people somewhere else on the planet. Step 2: stop talking to people next to you IRL *and* to people somewhere else on the planet to talk to a chatbot pretending to be other people. Step 3: stop talking? - [1650195331101913090](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650195331101913090/) - Weeks ago, Seth Godin wrote: "If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, don’t interrupt people with it." https://t.co/Hx28VOCFBb https://t.co/v59DABcVEx - [1650189938112036864](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650189938112036864/) - 👀 https://t.co/0Y13DCJt3T - [1650137646587592706](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650137646587592706/) - Quality. https://t.co/UVmwNWO7VL - [1650074567359045639](https://perilli.com/tweets/1650074567359045639/) - @ChrisStoneTV Take a look at the gallery of synthetic photographies I curate here: https://t.co/Y5xCSPX2iB (Most of) these images are some of the most realistic ever seen, generated by some of the best AI creators on the scene at the moment. - [1649881466543693825](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649881466543693825/) - @EMostaque What you (and the Stability AI team) are doing is necessary and invaluable, despite all the criticism and misunderstandings, and will be remembered in history books. - [1649728965987250176](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649728965987250176/) - It's nice to see outlets like Wired, The Guardian, and others explore the topics I covered on Synthetic Work for 2 months. But more important than pondering about the risk of losing your job to AI is learning how to evolve your job to benefit from AI. If you wait for your… https://t.co/hG8WI7eedj - [1649717997362110464](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649717997362110464/) - 😮 https://t.co/jXdGSkMdH1 - [1649713182452117504](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649713182452117504/) - @DataChaz Always knew. Best generative AI work to date. - [1649450176946339856](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649450176946339856/) - As every week, my thanks to all the people that have *involuntarily* contributed material for this week's Free Edition of Synthetic Work: @business, @violazhouyi, @DelphineStrauss, @culturaltutor, @_ScottCondron, @syntheticusers, and @NiloufarSalehi2. https://t.co/WnXSQY0q2R - [1649447420583968769](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649447420583968769/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled If You Have Experience with Technologies Like AGI, You Are Encouraged to Apply. Read it here:https://t.co/aqD0zyXcZL - [1649445672091893767](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649445672091893767/) - As every week, my thanks to all the people that have *involuntarily* contributed material for this week's Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work: @chrisalbon, @cocojournalist, @HSBC, @RadioMilwaukee, and @Glassdoor. - [1649429795896193031](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649429795896193031/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Splendid Edition is titled The Tools of the Trade. Read it here: https://t.co/yK29ZieL8w - [1649370847927230466](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649370847927230466/) - The progress we are seeing in synthetic photography is just mindblowing. The section of Synthetic Work dedicated to synthetic media is now featuring new phenomenal work by @gen_ericai. Be sure to look at this full screen: https://t.co/Y5xCSPX2iB https://t.co/4jLBIs29qF - [1649312112819281922](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649312112819281922/) - 👀 https://t.co/lQxvltim67 - [1649191633928220674](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649191633928220674/) - The large majority of technology companies out there, including the ones that have scrambled/are scrambling to put out PR announcements about their "AI efforts", have *no clue* of what's coming. - [1649173435166203908](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649173435166203908/) - I don't remember ever seeing a TED Talk longer than 17min. This is 30. https://t.co/vwZGZJlrLn - [1649168306463551491](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649168306463551491/) - @danielgross Did you just prove my point, @danielgross? https://t.co/PE1Y1BJkW7 - [1649170677260320773](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649170677260320773/) - 👀 https://t.co/i5Fm5AfhaI - [1649155118036664327](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649155118036664327/) - I follow all of you. You just can't see it. Knowing what everybody is doing is part of the job. - [1649149632956493846](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649149632956493846/) - Suggestion for next time you guys do this, @weights_biases: it would be really useful to see a list of the expertise that each participant has. For example, tonight I was interested in meeting AI experts in voice synthesis and deep fakes, and it was not easy to find them :) - [1649142091514036224](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649142091514036224/) - I was there and yes, the queue was a massive 45min wait from the point we got in. And yes, I shook @emostaque's hand and thanked him (also on your behalf) for the gifts to humanity that #stablediffusion and @stabilityai are. You're welcome. https://t.co/2PG2uay3jp - [1649143741066756096](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649143741066756096/) - Thanks @weights_biases for the great networking opportunity. Looking forward to reviewing that new Training and Fine-tuning LLMs course, @l2k https://t.co/J1tTGrXVQh - [1649137309567053831](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649137309567053831/) - Completely expected. Dean soon to depart, I'm sure. > Google’s big AI push will combine Brain and DeepMind into one team https://t.co/hRrjpR6RFz - [1649139342625890306](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649139342625890306/) - Very impressive synthetic photos from @gen_ericai https://t.co/EjBm3z8ZtU - [1649061170349850624](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649061170349850624/) - Fascinating https://t.co/uBzAs2wyi8 - [1649057485284855808](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649057485284855808/) - @_msw_ @EMostaque Me, too. @awscloud is, without question, my partner of choice for anything I'm building. - [1649021778239389700](https://perilli.com/tweets/1649021778239389700/) - @EMostaque Will you release a frictionless fine-tuning platform (e.g., put your data in this folder, that's it) for individuals and companies to fine-tune StableLM (and other models) with their own data? Thank you. See you tonight at the W&B! - [1648991671168778240](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648991671168778240/) - New type of advertising on Twitter (even for Blue subscribers). I've never seen this one before this morning: https://t.co/SGlNz7bEpO - [1648946578252505089](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648946578252505089/) - The overwhelming majority of AI tools you see "announced" every day on social media will disappear as none has a sustainable competitive advantage to protect them. To stay afloat some of them will "convert" into plugins for GPT-4 but it has nothing to do with the original intent - [1648831470985703424](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648831470985703424/) - @gregisenberg This is why I started writing a newsletter for non-technical people after 20 years as an industry analyst first and a tech executive later on. Lawyers, accountants, consultants, and an ocean of other categories must understand how AI is impacting human labour and the industries… https://t.co/qF5ijOSXor - [1648819565223182346](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648819565223182346/) - RT @LinusEkenstam: Ultra-Realistic game graphics We aren't ready for this, it’s like we live in a simulation… This is gameplay from @un… - [1648819698161557506](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648819698161557506/) - 🤯 https://t.co/mMfqRPtzYe - [1648803181592297475](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648803181592297475/) - RT @thibaudz: BREAKING NEWS Perpetual ♾ Diffusion ☀🌑 models are available. Have fun with them. Based on the awesome SD2.1-768 by @Stabil… - [1648799303639367681](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648799303639367681/) - @JosephJacks_ @openbb_finance Now, as I said many times, I’m waiting for the two things to merge together. (Ok, maybe let’s wait for the 65B model, but still( - [1648752407885623296](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648752407885623296/) - @jfischoff The market desperately needs Stability AI in its current role. But establishing a Red Hat-like business model is not necessarily a recipe for success. Many have tried and failed. Not because of execution mistakes but because there were fundamental misunderstandings about why and… https://t.co/EKRu1pFucK - [1648748829951369219](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648748829951369219/) - As a person that has done strategy in that company for 9 years, there's a multitude of things that I could say now :) https://t.co/sWCa0iGROe - [1648743139308339231](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648743139308339231/) - Isn't it funny how every major AI company is announcing something or sending some mass-mailing the day OpenAI shows its GPT-4 plug-in system at TED? Just a coincidence, I'm sure. - [1648733810551316486](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648733810551316486/) - RT @StabilityAI: Announcing StableLM❗ We’re releasing the first of our large language models, starting with 3B and 7B param models, with 1… - [1648735637497888768](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648735637497888768/) - Finally, @StabilityAI has released the first alpha of their (non-large-yet) language model: StableLM. Of course, I have to test the HuggingFace demo with my canonical question (but it will be hard to beat Dolly 2.0): https://t.co/uGt26J8oTn - [1648726329695559681](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648726329695559681/) - Perhaps because this is the reality? "Bard is worse than useless: please do not launch." https://t.co/RgAYfCuAbw - [1648708413898084353](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648708413898084353/) - @plankers @cgaunerd And you think that in-the-flesh analysts don't hear "hallucinations" from vendors in every single briefing they have? Do you want a list of things that IT vendors (even established ones, not just scrappy startups) make up? - Product features that are not even in alpha -… https://t.co/qlLiSJpHQs - [1648706876387778562](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648706876387778562/) - @cgaunerd Well, of course. That's what I'm going to show next ;) - [1648693072887250944](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648693072887250944/) - Oh, @Google. Why did you send this email to a very old Gmail account of mine, wording it as if I could use #Bard immediately, when in reality, when I click on the link I'm simply put on a (not wanted) waiting list? Do you have to resort to these tricks to raise attention now? - [1648700559904448512](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648700559904448512/) - Last month (see thread below) I asked: what is going to happen to analysis firms like Gartner, IDC, or Forrester now that writing a research paper is becoming trivial? Last week, I've started exploring this topic as an excuse to show the readers of Synthetic Work how you can get… https://t.co/cg03OrYrHp https://t.co/ltPZiqzjI3 - [1648665798871855106](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648665798871855106/) - You must stare at a screen at all times. > BMW i7 xDrive60 review: the one with the 31-inch movie screen in the back https://t.co/C2aOah5Am9 https://t.co/iIy4FtVnEK - [1648652264758706176](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648652264758706176/) - @_akhaliq Whoa, this is good. Where's the code, tho, @kaishengtai? 😎 - [1648653130148503553](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648653130148503553/) - Nah. https://t.co/tRIFqGgybp - [1648631452966301697](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648631452966301697/) - An update on this: @Wise has *obliterated* every other "new bank" I mentioned in this thread. In terms of speed of activation for a new business account, reliability of the app and web service, and competitive fees. I'll definitely promote them to whoever is or will be in my… https://t.co/HFat1xQCve - [1648324770067279874](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648324770067279874/) - People are slowly discovering that the AI tools and services you see featured hundreds of times a week in those flashy infographics liked thoudsands of times are, for the most part, *crap*. I received a lot of requests to dedicate a part of Synthetic Work to fixing the problem. - [1648279242088628224](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648279242088628224/) - This is why you see articles about company X on Business Insider (and many other pay-to-play news outlets). No merit necessary. (just received) https://t.co/Hzrg4nP3jM - [1648268231226843136](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648268231226843136/) - I write an entire weekly newsletter dedicated to this topic. Critically important research. Consider applying. https://t.co/okmUS7jzTe - [1648270414563495936](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648270414563495936/) - Imagine what happens if the AI could read your desktop in a consistent and reliable way. Rather than you reacting to events across multiple windows and constantly switching contexts, the AI might read apps on your behalf and decide how to proceed. https://t.co/IeyOulzCf5 - [1648254818589261824](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648254818589261824/) - Per gli amici Italiani, il nuovo episodio di Le Voci dell'AI. Il video appuntamento settimanale in collaborazione con @01net dove parlo di intelligenza artificiale. Questa settimana rispondo alla domanda di Claudio: https://t.co/2N3Lahu8iT https://t.co/o2CSI4CgiG - [1648106378727239682](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648106378727239682/) - @GaryMarcus @SashaMTL I bet we've seen nothing yet in terms of powerful the Eliza effect can be: https://t.co/5nTkTTMkn0 - [1648090717175021568](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648090717175021568/) - @wintonARK 2 people: I want absolute realism. 98 people: What would get me more views and likes when I'll publish this on social media? The question is why people are taking the picture in the first place. And that informs the answer to the first question. - [1648092385849622528](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648092385849622528/) - Also. Isn't amazing that all this technique and these tools are free as a gift to humanity from people liked @liuliu ? https://t.co/8ltsmW8ZjQ - [1648058632049684481](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648058632049684481/) - Of all the industries I talk about on Synthetic Work, Health Care is the one I cannot keep up with. So much is going on every day. However, Finance will likely be the one industry that will experience non-stop AI transformation for a while. It just didn't start yet. - [1648048996336783365](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648048996336783365/) - A very small portion of the AI community is currently focused on synthetic voices (aka TTS), but when GPT-4 and other LLMs will gain a truly realistic voice*, the emotional impact for humans will be huge. Voice is critical. *like the ones I used here: https://t.co/09cs7hjwnb https://t.co/80FwEP2Z8y - [1648045457568944157](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648045457568944157/) - @erogol All these wonderful studies (which I review on Synthetic Work) never account for the most important factor: people resist change and, if feel threatened, they actively sabotage change. What "could" happen, especially if described by a tech provider, must face the real world. - [1648046630728347648](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648046630728347648/) - @GaryMarcus Good luck. I attended in person the TEDGlobal 2017 in Arusha, Tanzania. Sitting in the 2nd-3rd row, right there. Unique experience. - [1648047857407086594](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648047857407086594/) - @emollick One of the many things that will be come 100x more interesting when the 32K-tokens context window will be unlocked. - [1648030354626736147](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648030354626736147/) - "Hey GPT-4, take this 10min video for YouTube and chop it in a few 10s teasers for TikTok. Pick the moments where I say something funny. When you are done, publish it online." Soon, in a video editing tool near you. - [1648032483441618945](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648032483441618945/) - @GaryMarcus For him to say so, it means that they already found "new ideas". He's preparing the ground. Well-established playbook. - [1648033559821549568](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648033559821549568/) - Amazing stuff from @juliewdesign_, as usual. https://t.co/dIU7Cdtylw - [1648029137783644161](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648029137783644161/) - Periodic reminder. https://t.co/E6ELgWH7h2 - [1648004760526626817](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648004760526626817/) - I understand that it takes time to fix a mess, @elonmusk, but it's frustrating that I'm trying to give you money & you don't want it. It's been like this since day 1 (meanwhile, price has gone up). Opening a case with @TwitterSupport has done nothing. They even closed the case. https://t.co/YkL5KJxyNH - [1648000754274164739](https://perilli.com/tweets/1648000754274164739/) - Suggestion for @soren_iverson: A browser extension that integrates with your post submission form on Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook and, as you type, it tells you "Don't bother. It's been already posted and 92% of your network already read it. Stop polluting timelines." - [1647997757473341441](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647997757473341441/) - Oh, look. TED has turned into an AI conference. https://t.co/eaekontUr2 - [1647991528529227777](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647991528529227777/) - Yes. https://t.co/icjyOLB4rl - [1647998296793706501](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647998296793706501/) - Collage Diffusion is so good that it's now the official model I use to create the covers of Synthetic Work. Thank you, @wavymulder! (I didn't have covers at all before. I was waiting for the right inspiration) Here's an example: https://t.co/mIFvFQWHtC - [1647947535590326272](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647947535590326272/) - 1/ I always smile when, on social media, I read people say "I'll never read/watch/listen to something that is AI generated". It's not how it will work. You will consume AI-generated content without even realizing it. In fact, the least you want to know about AI, the more likely: - [1647947536362094593](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647947536362094593/) - 2/ So far, I'm personally aware of: - a top publisher that generates articles - a product manager in a top IT vendor that generates press announcements - a well-known photographer that generates portraits for his portfolio None disclosing to their customers they are using AI. - [1647947537125457920](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647947537125457920/) - 3/ And the more technology matures AND the more people educate themselves about this technology, the more you'll see it. We are (not so) slowly entering what I always call a post-real era. You world will be half synthetic before you realize it. - [1647940827451207680](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647940827451207680/) - More evidence that human nature beats WFH hands down: https://t.co/4Pxzn6BjYZ https://t.co/GGCdG9PNk0 - [1647947859419975682](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647947859419975682/) - @luanrolivari @Suhail Your world will be half synthetic before you realize it. https://t.co/KPIEvwfZFb - [1647916348553457664](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647916348553457664/) - While the tech guys spam social media networks with "prompt engineering" tips, you, a business owner or a knowledge worker, have yet to figure out what they are talking about. Good news: "prompt engineering" is about to radically change. You won't be left out :) - [1647876353071501312](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647876353071501312/) - This is SUPER interesting, with some open access essays. I will feature some of this work in upcoming issues of Synthetic Work. https://t.co/2PVeunEnMr - [1647876851057008641](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647876851057008641/) - An example: https://t.co/sNqN9NcqMS - [1647869266253758464](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647869266253758464/) - @maxaltl @GaryMarcus Saturate Every Platform™. https://t.co/9USsyxdjBq - [1647873867052974084](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647873867052974084/) - Now that would be welcome. Especially for those founders that don't get funded (because of race, gender, geo). https://t.co/mtK9ntF7LT - [1647524861781106688](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647524861781106688/) - More Collage Diffusion (a gift to all #stablediffusion community by @wavymulder): https://t.co/33OH2D9nyo - [1647374452949241859](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647374452949241859/) - Who knew that generative AI would end up becoming the ultimate self-help tool? - [1647348411161624577](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647348411161624577/) - The new #stablediffusion fine-tuned model Collage Diffusion is whimsical. Many great talents in the AI art community, but @wavymulder models are on another level. https://t.co/TyIPUVoi1l - [1647320642675523585](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647320642675523585/) - RT @giano: A group of sufficiently motivated machine learning engineers is indistinguishable from a guild of wizards. - [1647274887696859139](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647274887696859139/) - I'm considering using @octimot's StoryToolkitAI for its integration with Davinci Resolve. I hope this new version (thanks @ggerganov!) works with it. https://t.co/1YFoC5dWJD - [1647205481482444801](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647205481482444801/) - Anyone? Perhaps, interesting for @simonw? I suppose it won't be a fair or long-lived comparison as Copilot is just about to transform into Copilot X... https://t.co/7zdhTQxzQn - [1647000344784764928](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647000344784764928/) - @mindjimmy Perhaps, all the information necessary to pose as each one of these advisors is already inside GPT-4. So the only thing necessary to build a PoC would be some code that allows 5 instances of GPT-4 to interact with each other & with the user. Can your code do that @mindjimmy? - [1647002502028574720](https://perilli.com/tweets/1647002502028574720/) - @mindjimmy @_chatarena If you are interested in exploring this more, and want to collaborate on it, DM me and let's see what we can get out of it. - [1646995617846284288](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646995617846284288/) - @mindjimmy Well, if it can be done. And if can be done, I have at least a thousand C-level executives to call right now 🙃 - [1646994816553693184](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646994816553693184/) - @mindjimmy Perhaps following an in-app purchase with a revenue-sharing model. And if that data is inaccessible, perhaps it's possible to create a series of AI advisors from existing (and reputable) books? - [1646997191725072389](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646997191725072389/) - @mindjimmy More than him, I think people would want to have experts in finance (Warren Buffet), business (Jeff Bezos), marketing (Seth Godin), negotiations (Chris Voss), etc. But there are enormous issues with IP & copyright in these cases. It's fine for a PoC but not for a real product. - [1646997583967973376](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646997583967973376/) - @mindjimmy I am confident there are ways to do this without being sued to death from day 1. - [1646991106888855555](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646991106888855555/) - @jw2yang4ai I know. I was just looking for an excuse to post some Francesca Woodman pictures. - [1646990662775054337](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646990662775054337/) - This should not be a parody, but a mandatory counter. I have seen first-hand *at least* $1M in lost productivity burned with Slack. https://t.co/lt7xJO3ucs - [1646993021236391937](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646993021236391937/) - @mindjimmy Because, for the use case I have in mind, and the audience I know very well, that would be too many voices. A C-level executive wants a small group of highly trusted and highly experienced advisors he/she can use as a sounding board. A whole society is not helping him/her. - [1646994309525250050](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646994309525250050/) - @mindjimmy Now, what happens if a CEO using this AI advisory board is able to swap the advisors offered out-of-the-box with ones provided by 3rd party data providers, like business schools (Wharton), publications (The Economist, HBR), actual biz veterans, etc. for a premium? In-app purchase - [1646989421688893442](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646989421688893442/) - @ykilcher As I wrote in this week's edition of Synthetic Work, couples therapy might dramatically improve your prompts. - [1646984117840404482](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646984117840404482/) - Very impressive, and very promising. https://t.co/eUTGsbdMln - [1646986901973262339](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646986901973262339/) - @jw2yang4ai Challenging SEEM with Francesca Woodman. To be fair, this would be tough for any AI. https://t.co/OJMOUwfv39 - [1646985030919503875](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646985030919503875/) - Here's a baby step toward my idea of the "AI council" / "AI advisory board": https://t.co/mcjO5GjBEo - [1646960261524254720](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646960261524254720/) - Every day I'm a little happier that I didn't pick Substack to host Synthetic Work. https://t.co/GOCalDgX1l - [1646963945087946764](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646963945087946764/) - @_akhaliq Ask for a rewrite of La Divina Commedia as a sci-fi drama and sell it to @netflix, perhaps? - [1646942228038688796](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646942228038688796/) - FINALLY! The new open source LLM released by @databricks, Dolly 2.0, has a *clear* answer to my question on how to get rich quickly. It succeeded where ALL the others failed (see the other answers in the 🧵). Thanks @RamAnanth29 for putting together a HF space to find the truth https://t.co/zspMhd2XdQ - [1646937852855427072](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646937852855427072/) - @GaryMarcus All of this is very euphoric and very, very premature. Imagine what happens after next week when OpenAI shows GPT-4 plugins at TED. - [1646852542586929152](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646852542586929152/) - This week, as usual, I have a few people to thank for their *involuntary* contribution to the Free Edition of Synthetic Work: @remixeverything, @emostaque, @Ninetail_foxQ, @paulg, @asanwal, @emollick, @vijaybolina, @openai, @maurice_jks (& team), and @Kyle_L_Wiggers. - [1646853607482875905](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646853607482875905/) - 1/ This week I'm introducing a new section in the Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work. It's called "Prompting" and it's all about getting the most out of your interaction with GPT-4 (and, in future, other generative AIs) thanks to a few advanced techniques to write your prompt. - [1646853608774807556](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646853608774807556/) - 2/ Here's what's in it. To understand how prompting techniques influence the outcome of our requests, I showed the comparison between a standard prompt and a prompt modified with these techniques. https://t.co/thwbI7D3re - [1646841089943388160](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646841089943388160/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Splendid Edition is titled Issue #8 - The Harbinger of Change Read it here: https://t.co/n3NZww7GFi https://t.co/SkjvUL6AMj - [1646841217408286723](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646841217408286723/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled Issue #8 - The Best Funeral of the Year Read it here: https://t.co/VOBds9ekEe https://t.co/qGSB6MCnuc - [1646795981525065728](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646795981525065728/) - @_ScottCondron @weights_biases @StabilityAI Scott, LangChain's first release was 6 months ago... When you say "5y of experience" what kind of years are you talking about? What planet should we use for the reference measurement? See you next week. - [1646781076201766912](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646781076201766912/) - Go @ispace_inc - [1646783219977666561](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646783219977666561/) - @mpshanahan @DrRyanBurnell The people that need to read this don't have a subscription to Science. - [1646769844329562112](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646769844329562112/) - @TwitterWrite @elonmusk I see somebody is preparing to complete with Medium, Substack, and LinkedIn AND building the training dataset for its upcoming AI. - [1646559107489333251](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646559107489333251/) - RT @EMostaque: Delighted to partner with @awscloud on Bedrock. With this service you will be able to take our open models to your data and… - [1646559338478161920](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646559338478161920/) - 👀 https://t.co/JgCSHF50fs - [1646513799820873728](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646513799820873728/) - Uneven progress across AI assistants: GPT-4 vs Alexa. Note: Alexa notification is NOT from 5 years ago. It arrived yesterday. (Bing example from @emollick - thank you) https://t.co/mb6PryOJqY - [1646503378619383808](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646503378619383808/) - Oh, look! @Adobe does @DescriptApp > Premiere Pro to gain text-based editing & more, changing the way you’ll edit videos https://t.co/eQrHI0X82k - [1646506618647969794](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646506618647969794/) - Wake me up when somebody does a side-by-side comparison with Copilot (or when GitHub lower the cost) > Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, is Now Generally Available https://t.co/JAyCH5vlnz - [1646505185127309312](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646505185127309312/) - Well, this is perfect timing, @awscloud: https://t.co/rQOpC0NK5a - [1646468321196355584](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646468321196355584/) - @Austen All living beings try to conserve energy in various ways. Some, like the jellyfish, more efficiently than others. So, it's not implausible that, from an evolutionary standpoint, we still try to minimize the amount of work we need to do to address our basic needs. Not an expert! - [1646469212037103619](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646469212037103619/) - Absolutely amazing. I can't wait to try this in A1111. https://t.co/vlqT7WxMrn - [1646463725136740355](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646463725136740355/) - Did anybody review Twitter's recommendation algorithm in-depth? If so, can you tell me if using third-party tools to post on Twitter (e.g., Buffer) negatively impacts the visibility of the tweets? - [1646425032275501057](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646425032275501057/) - @emollick Agree. This might change as OpenAI unlocks the 32K context window so that every prompt submitted by enterprise users can be "massaged" with some corporate guidance, like a style book for how to write press announcements and blog posts, or a design guide to inform slide generation - [1646427151506210817](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646427151506210817/) - @imnotfady So it's like DoNotPay, but unhinged. I see. - [1646422420046110722](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646422420046110722/) - 2/ Impeccable writing (substance, style, structure) is most impressive, especially coming from a technical person covering such a complex subject for a general audience. Also appreciate the humor. Informed opinions and insightful perspectives are thought-provoking. - [1646422418687160320](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646422418687160320/) - 1/ The new issue of Synthetic Work, my weekly newsletter for non-technical people to understand how AI is changing the world, goes out tomorrow. Some fresh comments from the readers: - [1646422421308682240](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646422421308682240/) - 3/ I think your newsletter more than anything else has proven to me that AI is going to fundamentally transform how people will interact with computers and do their jobs in the medium-long term. I’m learning something new every week. - [1646422422705299456](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646422422705299456/) - 4/ Your way of writing. It's a fun to read it, your humor shines through, which makes this an entertaining read. https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo - [1646422652989460483](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646422652989460483/) - 👀 https://t.co/TxF4WteNDP - [1646273172306808833](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646273172306808833/) - And short-term: dear AI startups, you better start explaining what's the difference between you and the others on the first page of your website because all your launch pitches start to sound identical. https://t.co/qH68CtWR18 - [1646273467241885697](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646273467241885697/) - It feels like I'm back 20 years when I was consulting virtualization startups crowding the VMware ecosystem. Spoiler: it didn't end up well for 90% of them. - [1646237031859625987](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646237031859625987/) - Very important point. If we ever achieve a breakthrough in accurate emotion identification, chatbots will be linked to webcams/phone front cameras to capture both the local environment and the expression of the user for additional context. https://t.co/yaAwPY9J4q - [1646232233886339074](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646232233886339074/) - @alighodsi Now, @alighodsi, for all the new people that don't know much about @databricks, do you want to explain what is the business model behind this *actually* open source AI model that people can use for commercial apps? - [1646226467175518208](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646226467175518208/) - Uneven progress across AI assistants: GPT-4 vs Alexa. Note: Alexa notification is not from 5 years ago. It arrived 13 minutes ago. https://t.co/ff5nldHfW3 - [1646211000473993227](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646211000473993227/) - I don't know who put this together, but as a former Gartner analyst, doing industry research (including taxonomies and classifications) for a living, I'm really NOT impressed. https://t.co/MsUuYQ20PD - [1646210885596200970](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646210885596200970/) - @KostaBuhler @Forbes I don't know who put this together, but as a former Gartner analyst, doing industry research (including taxonomies and classifications) for a living, I'm really NOT impressed. - [1646208296364261475](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646208296364261475/) - @elonmusk I'm confused. Who's interviewing who? - [1646198069791191041](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198069791191041/) - 2/ If they do it, Perplexity AI will have to show that they can do a much, much better job with the Q&A use case than OpenAI. There is another possibility: OpenAI does not launch a browser extension and a wide range of apps. - [1646198068868521984](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198068868521984/) - 1/ A snippet from the Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work Issue #7, sent out last week: "... Nothing stops OpenAI from launching a browser extension and a series of apps for every mobile platform and gaming console out there. - [1646198070697246726](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198070697246726/) - 3/ Any company that wants to establish itself as a platform company operates around a fundamental tension between two conflicting needs: - [1646198071548690440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198071548690440/) - 4/ - On one side, there is the need to create an ecosystem of partners that can reliably build a business on top of the technical foundation that the platform company offers. - [1646198073255772179](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198073255772179/) - 6/ - On the other side, there is the need to address the customer demand to provide a certain set of platform capabilities out of the box. Customers don’t want to rely on a single third party for a critical functionality, especially if it’s poorly integrated or overpriced. - [1646198072387551238](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198072387551238/) - 5/ This is especially convenient when a company starts, as it lacks the time and resources to deliver production-quality features for every use case. The more your ecosystem grows, the bigger the trust partners place in your platform, the healthier is your business. - [1646198075168374797](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198075168374797/) - 8/ And so, sooner or later, platform companies find themselves in the difficult position of cannibalizing their own ecosystem by delivering out-of-the-box capabilities that are very similar or identical to the ones offered by their partners. - [1646198074153353216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198074153353216/) - 7/ In part, it’s a problem of having to deal with multiple entities to support a single scenario. In part, it’s poor leverage in deal negotiation. - [1646198075982065665](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198075982065665/) - 9/ Every platform company has to deal with this tension, and when it does, it normally screws things up. We have seen it both in the B2C and in the B2B markets with Microsoft, VMware, Amazon, Apple, and many others. - [1646198076913205251](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646198076913205251/) - 10/ At least in this phase of their lifecycle, OpenAI might decide that it’s more convenient to let its partners thrive rather than trying to offer everything for every use case. ..." https://t.co/VRV1G1AArQ - [1646175648174555145](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646175648174555145/) - 👀 https://t.co/JBQSvJsJj7 - [1646177248502743041](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646177248502743041/) - @alighodsi Well, thanks 5,000 @databricks employees! - [1646163829980643330](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646163829980643330/) - There you go. Back in the office all week. If you read the whole thread, I said that this is a long-term game. And the game is now over: https://t.co/puEYtgFznf - [1646109337977331712](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646109337977331712/) - Tech-savvy readers prefer much longer newsletter issues. Business-savvy readers prefer much shorter newsletter issues. I try to write Synthetic Work in a way that it strikes a balance between the two perspectives. But it's very possible that I'm dissatisfying both groups. 🙃 - [1646074499589103618](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646074499589103618/) - Let me re-title this article for you: "Opera, the ad-supported web browser owned by a Chinese company, launches a free VPN for iOS, so you can be tracked across all devices & locations" There. Better, no? > Opera on iOS rolling out free VPN for all users https://t.co/sdUluY8o3b - [1646060131757481984](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646060131757481984/) - @simonw @solidstate_birb As I wrote in the newsletter, I believe there's a silent, ongoing fight to establish what is the job-to-be-done in the mind of the users that are exposed X number of LLMs. - [1646059729918066688](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646059729918066688/) - @simonw @solidstate_birb In last week's issue of Synthetic Work, I mentioned exactly this happening to me: having access to both Copilot and GPT-4, and in need of some Javascript code (I'm not a dev), I found myself asking the question to the latter rather than the former. - [1646057408609779712](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646057408609779712/) - @emollick 100%. Prompt massaging underneath pretty UIs is not a long-term competitive advantage. - [1646058660450246657](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646058660450246657/) - @emollick As a former industry analyst (Gartner, I left almost 10 years ago), I can confirm that product categorization has an enormous impact on the success of a company. Self-assigned vs "inflicted by analysis firms" has radically different pros and cons nobody ever talks about. - [1646055397357150208](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646055397357150208/) - @danielgross https://t.co/G0LCEaf4TY - [1646055218956705792](https://perilli.com/tweets/1646055218956705792/) - Dusty playbooks get recovered from the archive: https://t.co/8i36nyA54s - [1645899861542273026](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645899861542273026/) - At a dinner last night, I met the owner of a small creative agency here in London. He tells me he uses GPT-4 every day to speed up the delivery of various collaterals. Coming from a disadvantaged family, he sees AI as a great equalizer for people that can't afford top education. - [1645891484267212801](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645891484267212801/) - Oh, this looks fantastic. On my must-try list for the weekend. https://t.co/zYBTazUJMS - [1645893313407377408](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645893313407377408/) - It was bound to happen. I have first-hand experience fine-tuning Salesforce CodeGen and I know how good it can be. @jamesravey did a great job here. https://t.co/WEp3aBK75u - [1645888763686420483](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645888763686420483/) - It will be interesting to see how the "MidJourney dilemma" applies here and how it will be addressed > China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger https://t.co/8xUZsNR7lx - [1645879652177551360](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645879652177551360/) - @JosephJacks_ When I told him that it would be useful if Twitter would offer a LLM to whom I can ask "Who is the top expert in ancient symbolism?" and similar questions, I didn't expect him to spend $250M+ to make me happy... - [1645544609710260233](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645544609710260233/) - I believe that every pixel matters. Whoever has worked with me in the last 20y can confirm that. And when some pixels are not right, I believe there's a big difference between lack of skills and lack of sensiblity. The former can be fixed. - [1645545380619206656](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645545380619206656/) - @wightmanr It's just a dry run before Stability AI releases its open LLM/s. People need to keep themselves busy. - [](https://perilli.com/tweets/21641/) - Nineth test. What I'm doing is incredibly dangerous. - [](https://perilli.com/tweets/21640/) - Eight test. What I'm doing is incredibly dangerous. - [1645497622487080974](https://perilli.com/tweets/1645497622487080974/) - Electronic Frontier Foundation's opinion on copyright and #AIart. I think you should read it. > How We Think About Copyright and AI Art https://t.co/0TwL4H2EMr - [1639237509732261888](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639237509732261888/) - And, as every week, I have a list of people to thank for their *involuntary* contributions to this week's Special Edition of Synthetic Work: @MiaRSato, @GaelBreton, @tonythill, @Jon_Christian, @Arjunneilalim, @alexbruell, @keachhagey, @RohitSupekar, @GregBensinger, @sapinker - [1639235769721077760](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639235769721077760/) - As every week, I have a list of people to thank for their *involuntary* contributions to this week's Free Edition of Synthetic Work: @sytelus, @Scobleizer, @OpenAI, @benedictevans, @zzcrockett, @guardian, @lesswrong, @AnthropicAI - [1639225542372376577](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639225542372376577/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Splendid Edition is titled Issue #5 - The Perpetual Garbage Generator Read it here: https://t.co/woSOC088gw https://t.co/TUtE1OmWTs - [1639225912297426950](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639225912297426950/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled Issue #5 - You are not going to use 19 years of Gmail conversations to create an AI clone of my personality, are you? Read it here: https://t.co/INUrHy73fE https://t.co/LaFbmAeccF - [1639177847733383168](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639177847733383168/) - @LinusEkenstam @LinusEkenstam, if you didn't did NOT finish the image (either of them) with Photoshop or other editors, would it be OK if I publish it in a section of Synthetic Work dedicated to synthetic media (with credit)? https://t.co/Y5xCSPX2iB Let me know via DM if you prefer. Thank you - [1639164344490422274](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639164344490422274/) - RT @mitchellh: I've developed a lot of plugin systems, and the OpenAI ChatGPT plugin interface might be the damn craziest and most impressi… - [1639029270621347840](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639029270621347840/) - RT @mitchellh: For those who aren't aware: you write an OpenAPI manifest for your API, use human language descriptions for everything, and… - [1638999397508829190](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638999397508829190/) - So, if I understand this correctly, it turns out that Adobe #Firefly was trained not just on stock photos but on a lot of #stablediffusion and #midjourney images. What a lovely shortcut. https://t.co/0Jn2cHOnmL - [1639000764990496768](https://perilli.com/tweets/1639000764990496768/) - @mpshanahan I guess this might be in response to the drama of the week, aka OhMyGodTheyCreatedTheSparkOfAnArtificialBaby I think everybody would love to hear your comments on that paper. - [1638981933962088448](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638981933962088448/) - @mmmmmmpc I saw that, thank you Miguel. But https://t.co/x53vurLrhY is only about puppets. And real human guests. Perhaps. We'll see. 🤐 - [1638974921656381440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638974921656381440/) - I know it sounds like something to pay attention to these days, but you should expect every existing software out there to integrate with/embed a GPT model in the near future. So knowing that company X now offers ChatGPT is not super useful. - [1638974922843394051](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638974922843394051/) - This is akin to (but orders of magnitude bigger) mid-2006, when every enterprise IT company was announcing that their software was available as a virtual appliance for VMware. It was useful to nobody except VMware. - [1638971783939502080](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638971783939502080/) - Of course OpenAI is enabling plug-ins. They are not just building AI-as-service. They are building an AI platform. An automation hub with an artificial brain at the center. Imagine Zapier (to which they connect), but with GPT-x as central node. - [1638971785126506496](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638971785126506496/) - The AI sees everything, moves everything, decides everything. - [1638965568605679623](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638965568605679623/) - Hey @Descript, given that I keep talking about your amazing product during my video podcast (see the two links below, not sure how much you'll understand, but there's a transcription), can I, at least, have some help here? https://t.co/OJWTpvtiTM https://t.co/NjFDs0WTrW https://t.co/5WPfy24MCz - [1638960273271713816](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638960273271713816/) - Dream job. https://t.co/EAXSvwKkJa - [1638926912855605250](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638926912855605250/) - We are slowly getting into a situation where publishing companies (even in the form of social media networks) will only publish the content *we* write, and we'll have to pay for the privilege of consuming it. Generative AI will accelerate this enormously. - [1638912360529424385](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638912360529424385/) - This week's Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work (out tomorrow) will be about the impact of AI on the Publishing industry. After the things I've been researching, I'm not sure anymore about how much published content will be generated by human journalists in the future. - [1638901998517977090](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638901998517977090/) - @ThePeterMick @GaelBreton @CNET It really, really matters if it has an impact on employment. And this is the beginning of something that will be deeply impactful. - [1638886071567265795](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638886071567265795/) - The question of the week. Vote, people. https://t.co/weDduK90NP - [1638881027388227585](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638881027388227585/) - @EMostaque We are back 20 years. Part is ignorance. Part is people really don't know how to build a business on top of open source. Mighty hard, that is (first-hand experience). https://t.co/FejtQwMOqZ - [1638849054355456000](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638849054355456000/) - Per gli amici Italiani, ecco l'Episodio 4 di Le Voci dell'AI, in collaborazione con 01net. Se avete seguito quello che ho detto negli ultimi giorni, capirete perche' questo episodio non poteva che chiamarsi "Putting lipstick on a pig". https://t.co/OJWTpvtiTM https://t.co/eTQyWGvcwi - [1638827626168037376](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638827626168037376/) - @abacaj Wait for Stability AI. It's coming. - [1638681214046404609](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638681214046404609/) - @alexandr_wang Imagine what happens when Microsoft starts delivering the AI-generated summary of the meeting they promised. Your 30% will become 3%. U2's Faraway, So Close! And if you look, you look through me And when you talk, you talk at me And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing - [1638683265799188480](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638683265799188480/) - @soren_iverson Not enough people understand the genius you are. I'll republish anything AI-related you make on Synthetic Work. - [1638670394012884992](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638670394012884992/) - @getwired @Grady_Booch It's not stupid. It's calculated. https://t.co/30YrzjpcoS - [1638646000075038721](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638646000075038721/) - According to Glassdoor, the yearly salary of a software engineer intern in the UK is £51,975. How much do you pay for GPT4? £20. Ah. I guess it's OK if the price will go up a little over time... - [1638641864386420736](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638641864386420736/) - "Waiting list" is the new "GA". - [1638609043534098432](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638609043534098432/) - Gloves off. https://t.co/dsSIIPWPL0 - [1638579173995294720](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638579173995294720/) - 👀 https://t.co/S7D2P7taet - [1638580130825084936](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638580130825084936/) - Of course, somebody is making an illustrated version of the Bible with Stable Diffusion: https://t.co/oABS9XeQBK https://t.co/4zyOjkM6iB - [1638581979808497665](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638581979808497665/) - If the execution of an idea (glorified by many people for decades as the only thing that matters) is slowly but eventually performed by AI, what's left to assess and bet on humans? The actual idea, perhaps? The creativity? The "ideas are a dime a dozen"? - [1638565026620493826](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638565026620493826/) - @chris_carlsson @Scobleizer @LEGO_Group That one already exists. It's not perfect, but I'd expect them to integrate GPT-4, too: https://t.co/7O6pbCU733 - [1638556998529699842](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638556998529699842/) - A future issue of Synthetic Work will focus on the impact of AI on game development. For now, this news about my favourite game studio, @Ubisoft, using generative AI to generate dialogue for non-playable game characters: https://t.co/CuCOBsu10K - [1638549000327421956](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638549000327421956/) - @Scobleizer @LEGO_Group As a LEGO lover and collector, the ultimate dream is that a GPT model (maybe not GPT-4, but a future model) will be able to "look" at the PDF of a set (which @LEGO_Group provides online) and generate an alternative set of instructions to build anything you have asked. - [1638547972412653568](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638547972412653568/) - AI-driven misinformation will just not target today. It will also target yesterday. Especially yesterday. https://t.co/dBu4lF7kdN - [1638544364145131520](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638544364145131520/) - Told you. https://t.co/uiENyWcEgw - [1638507668963835904](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638507668963835904/) - Wouldn't it be amazing if @vivaldibrowser would team up with @StabilityAI to offer OpenGPT integrated into the browser in the same way PsychoBing is integrated into SpammyEdge? [whispers] What? OpenGPT is not out yet? Oh. - [1638502311625383939](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638502311625383939/) - @GaryMarcus @WIRED Super fun. Well done both of you. Here, get a sticker. - [1638479230399922176](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638479230399922176/) - Operation lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. REPEAT Operation lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. (from https://t.co/gopXHoQhAb) https://t.co/xnfithGUkW - [1638469712760778753](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638469712760778753/) - And where the difference between truth and lie will be able to destroy people's life while the audience cares practically nothing about it. We could even see a new form of blackmail coming out of this. Pay or we'll inundate the internet with pictures of you doing X. - [1638465914961010691](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638465914961010691/) - @AiMachina @BKanizay @nicholas_dimes @spinnybuns @WizardConNFT @mars_eve @AiJoe_eth @HPLoveBux Interesting. Are we certain that this is product placement rather than the result of an inconsiderate training set? Can you share more about the methodology you used to uncover it? I'm just trying to not jump to conclusions. - [1638468852320284672](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638468852320284672/) - When we talk about AI-driven misinformation & manipulation, people think about situations involving super-high-profile individuals like this gentleman. But that's not where the damage will be. It will be done to very minor targets who will not be able to defend themselves. https://t.co/ifeOat57Wl - [1638455351535104000](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638455351535104000/) - Yep. https://t.co/doUOR76Jnc - [1638446517131395072](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638446517131395072/) - @multimodalart @deepfloydai @StabilityAI @AlibabaGroup Posts like this (very good, BTW) remind me that I'm so old that I remember a time when the standard reaction in the IT industry was: "What's that? Open source?? Gross." Now: "Is that NOT open source? Why?? What's wrong with you?" - [1638444094727811072](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638444094727811072/) - @sixones @katecrawford Absolutely. But it's a starting point. And I wanted to point out that somebody out there has enough data for that starting point. And I didn't mention Meta, YouTube, etc. - [1638302569784066049](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638302569784066049/) - 🫠 https://t.co/z5S38xGjmz - [1638287046400782338](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638287046400782338/) - Copilot Band-Aid! Fixes your buggy code with AI patches you can trust. https://t.co/eIUvpANjwS - [1638274229811441664](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638274229811441664/) - @katecrawford As a complete coincidence, @katecrawford, this is a draft portion of my newsletter (Synthetic Work) for this week. Now I have to make changes :) https://t.co/raPBkcSEJr - [1638252210508242945](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638252210508242945/) - I was looking at the stats offered by Cloudflare and almost fell off the chair in discovering that, collectively, my web properties (almost all neglected, for 12y) generate 500K+ pageviews/month. A Google search revealed that the number is probably highly inflated because of bots - [1638247097282490396](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638247097282490396/) - I think I have seen the first #AI-generated article from LinkedIn. I took 3 screenshots: It first appears at the top of your feed. Then you click on it and you find a series of placeholders where you can add your "insight" to the text that the AI has already generated. https://t.co/MF1lKNHvI3 - [1638236134055583744](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638236134055583744/) - We can't let OpenAI/Microsoft and Google have all of it, can we? Especially when they are trying to not find themselves dependent on an NVIDIA architecture. https://t.co/bRYdiRsFvy - [1638236562143019008](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638236562143019008/) - @amli_art @rainisto Already defeated: https://t.co/HgOmTYEwpa - [1638231070079320064](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638231070079320064/) - New glorious PR strategy from big tech: the Schrodinger strategy. "We are announcing X. Maybe it's ready, maybe not. You cannot know until you use it, but you can't use it because we are not letting you use it. You have to earn it. By queuing. Virtually." Meanwhile,@elonmusk: https://t.co/CpRZelD2Ia - [1638231734612271143](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638231734612271143/) - @elonmusk New glorious PR strategy from big tech: the Schrodinger strategy. "We are announcing X. Maybe it's ready, maybe not. You cannot know until you use it, but you can't use it because we are not letting you use it. You have to earn it. By queuing. Virtually." Meanwhile, @elonmusk: https://t.co/WT57V6LK8b - [1638194828184809474](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638194828184809474/) - THIS IS AN EXPERIMENT if something bad happens, it's not our fault. - [1638195756824666112](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638195756824666112/) - Of course, Microsoft couldn't simply say "Hey, now you can use Bing to generate both text and images." No. It had to invent a convoluted name for a feature that is within a feature (with a name) that is part of a product (that has a[n atrocious] name). - [1638197528708497414](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638197528708497414/) - Bing literal interpretation of text2img: https://t.co/jg1IVjZAI5 - [1638191243942408193](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638191243942408193/) - LOL. The first thing a patent lawyer will suggest you is to make the claims as vague as possible to have room for interpretations and future clarifications. So, on one side, you pay to muddy the waters. On the other, you pay to clear the waters. > https://t.co/2hyf0C8J3j https://t.co/T3gVjC2WMr - [1638180042982428672](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638180042982428672/) - @jstn @Ninetail_foxQ If it mattered, we'd have to be subject matter experts in everything we buy or otherwise consume. We don't. Like when we eat Chinese food in Western countries that has little or nothing of Chinese. It has wide cultural consequences. It still doesn't matter to most people. - [1638157208406958081](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638157208406958081/) - Did anybody notice the new research paper published by OpenAI and others titled "GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models" ? Of course, I'll mention it in this week's Issue of Synthetic Work, but a couple of important snippets: https://t.co/4aP0gWsmlW - [1638113003282235396](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638113003282235396/) - 1/ To me, one of the most exciting areas of R&D that #GenerativeAI unlocked is what I call "adaptive content generation" (other people call it in other ways?): in real-time AI (re)generates aspects of a system depending on user input or behaviour. UIs, content, functionalities. - [1638113004188319744](https://perilli.com/tweets/1638113004188319744/) - 2/ I'm collecting as much information as I can on the subject and, when I have enough, I'll write an issue of Synthetic Work (it will be a Splendid Edition) just about that. As we like to say in the Tube here in London: if you see something, say something (to me). - [1637934607709470720](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637934607709470720/) - @Scobleizer I'm not talking about technical capabilities. I'm talking about the potential veto to allow GPT-powered apps on an app store. For example because they can generate offensive, violent, sexual content and the safety measure in place can be circumvented easily. - [1637932102745243649](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637932102745243649/) - We can keep glorifying Engineering as the only discipline that matters these days (I've heard quite a few..), but the return of Philosophy seems necessary. This is not just a technical marvel. This changes the basic assumptions we can make about reality for the newborns of 2023. https://t.co/yp4g3TWuw6 - [1637932633849036809](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637932633849036809/) - Apply for a job at @StabilityAI here. Make a difference you can be proud of. https://t.co/vEeqc6pIsl - [1637933722409512961](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637933722409512961/) - @Scobleizer Which leads us to the very first situation where Apple and Google as app gatekeepers becomes a serious problem. I respect all other scenarios, but the world doesn't end if I can't play Fortnite on the iPhone. If I cannot run OpenGPT, and my colleague with Android can, tho... - [1637864996355858433](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637864996355858433/) - Or do you plan to force your users to code the inbox creation capability into Outlook for Mac by themselves with GPT-4 and call this arrangement "a feature"? - [1637863702597623809](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637863702597623809/) - More on this, @Microsoft: you want us to believe that you will change the business world with OpenAI models and *in 2023* I cannot create a new folder in a Gmail inbox with Outlook for Mac. Did anybody tell Satya this? Cause it kinda undermines his world-domination plans - [1637839178581913600](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637839178581913600/) - @jhagel @Merzmensch And that was exactly 1 year ago. Before the advent of advanced diffusion models and their fine-tuned forks. It's one of the reasons why I created the Synthetic Work section dedicated to photography: https://t.co/23vmMCnLQQ - [1637818727973437440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637818727973437440/) - @mccun934 What do you get in 2/week? Synthetic video pitches? If so would you mind sending me one to see? alessandro@synthetic.work - [1637814751903227905](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637814751903227905/) - Speaking of Synthetic Work, readers keep saying very nice things about the newsletter. Take a look at the new Testimonials page: https://t.co/MbEOTOvCF2 (best seen on a big screen IMO) (the quotes are real!) https://t.co/y3nJ8F9XqU - [1637796066216013825](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637796066216013825/) - Imagine if this thing works (even if it's successful, we'll not know for quite a long time). > PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit https://t.co/3kXUZinC6x https://t.co/wxNEVagwQH - [1637799534716657664](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637799534716657664/) - Do you really understand what is about to happen? https://t.co/jYePrW6sX7 - [1637775274262552576](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637775274262552576/) - 😮 Mostly unrelated: an AI doesn't have to connect to the Internet to execute code and be dangerous. It just has to convince a human to run the dangerous code on its behalf. https://t.co/ER0S6og1mi - [1637776935831863296](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637776935831863296/) - RT @bio_bootloader: alien spacecraft have visited earth and gifted us incredible technology and you are still doing the same things every d… - [1637770053675302914](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637770053675302914/) - 👀 https://t.co/osOyUWMlRY - [1637773076925497345](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637773076925497345/) - I have a confession to make: I don't sleep well anymore. The things I ready about AI daily, in the thousands per day, will have a profound impact on our world. The reason why I started Synthetic Work is not that AI is fashionable or lucrative. Synthetic Work is my warning call. - [1637767435167072256](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637767435167072256/) - My emphasis: "Authors 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 disclose in their manuscript the use of AI and AI-assisted technologies" https://t.co/ZOJWqMSq2E https://t.co/5wdkFhlvyf - [1637759595241193472](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637759595241193472/) - @shadbush @ClaireSilver12 Thank you for answering the call, Aleksandr. You are on my watch list now :) - [1637760850814541826](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637760850814541826/) - Really good and easy-to-understand recap of the recent decision of the US Copyright Office about AI output. Written by an actual lawyer. Not by a random person who, all of a sudden, is an expert in bank runs and capital allocation. A silly example that would never happen, clearly https://t.co/XIB630d219 - [1637755503102099459](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637755503102099459/) - I've been playing with @automatorplugin for a few weeks. As I showed in one of my video podcasts for the Italian audience, it's really powerful. They just introduced support for the OpenAI model gpt-3.5-turbo (the same one that powers #ChatGPT). Support for #GPT4 is coming. https://t.co/IdYcBolqkC - [1637758119148134402](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637758119148134402/) - @hardmaru @TonyZador @ylecun Isn't it funny that I just read this thread? https://t.co/XGLj4bE33S - [1637748037740003328](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637748037740003328/) - @neurosock Given that now we have LLMs that can read images, it doesn't seem impossible to create a reader app that ingests existing PDFs (as they are, no modifications), captures the content, and repurposes it for a low-vision audience in almost real-time. It might even redesign charts. - [1637748773492228098](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637748773492228098/) - 😮 https://t.co/Y8WOODbhIT - [1637745518800523264](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637745518800523264/) - #GenerativeAI for Txt2Vid being unlocked. Less than a year since txt2img turned our world upside down. Thanks to Shutterstock for involuntarily sponsoring it. You can't buy this kind of publicity. 🦙 https://t.co/ucohEFDBEB - [1637735815408238593](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637735815408238593/) - @lvminzhang I never generated any image with adversarial noise. Am I missing out? When did it happen to push you to build this? - [1637736832531038208](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637736832531038208/) - T2I Adapters for style transfer are the next big thing after ControlNet. I was supposed to test them this weekend but higher duties took all my time. Now. Can somebody make me a man completely made of tarantulas before I try myself next weekend? https://t.co/glrqsgnkcV - [1637737653297729537](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637737653297729537/) - @Hairyears @Ninetail_foxQ Which is exactly why I started writing Synthetic Work, @Hairyears. I did not want to talk about the AI tooling or techniques. I wanted to document the impact of AI on human labor, the economy, and our society. Because this trajectory concerns me greatly. - [1637585448703782914](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637585448703782914/) - I find amusing that we all talk about all things that #GPT4 can and cannot do and how it will impact humanity as if this is a moment frozen in time. If you look at the timeline, we have a new *major* AI model trained every every (possibly as part of a tick-tock release cycle) - [1637585451388215298](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637585451388215298/) - The preoccupation should not be about GPT4 limitations but how many of those will disappear with GPT5 in 12 months. Unless OpenAI either hits a wall (as @GaryMarcus has been saying all along) or they see something too concerning to keep the established pace. - [1637585960857661440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637585960857661440/) - The problem is that now OpenAI is not alone anymore. It's with Microsoft. And Microsoft wants its monopolistic profit back, and a place in history as winner far bigger than one as the creator of Windows or Office. - [1637574557249810432](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637574557249810432/) - 👀 https://t.co/h12yaHLyG9 - [1637530125313998855](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637530125313998855/) - @amli_art Yes. I am referring to the expected model/s that Stability AI will announce next week. I assume they will announce @DeepFloydIF, but it's also possible they will announce a truly open LLM (LLaMA is not). - [1637531373861732352](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637531373861732352/) - @courtsimas That's great, thank you. If you check the other pictures up so far on the website (https://t.co/aIeYe3ssvz), you'll see that I add a Link and a Contact for each creator. I'd use Insta for "Link" and Twitter for "Contact", but if you want something different, DM me. I can't DM you - [1637513672544116741](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637513672544116741/) - These creators are showing us how mindblowing @midjourney is and I'm happy to use Synthetic Work to amplify their reach as much as possible. We'll see what happens next (week?) with @deepfloydai and, in the future, with #dalle3. https://t.co/m3ZtUHMAnK - [1637510884858777605](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637510884858777605/) - I dedicate the weekends to the artistic side of AI. This weekend I added a few amazing photos to the section of Synthetic Work dedicated to synthetic media: https://t.co/aIeYe3ssvz Thanks to @ClaudiuSpace, @nickfloats, @recatm, and @juliewdesign_ https://t.co/srKtLGa56s - [1637466374674034688](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637466374674034688/) - @Ninetail_foxQ This (much appreciated) thread is an exceptional example of why generative AI imperfections don't matter. You are a domain expert and can pick details that few others can. Rest of the world probably thought: "what a lovely kimono". AI providers sell to *that* target audience. - [1637456551450406912](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637456551450406912/) - A good question for @sama & team. https://t.co/nnsckpDu8Z - [1637378036680077317](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637378036680077317/) - @Scobleizer Is there a public reference for this particular quote of not hiring people from the phone industry? I didn't know about it and I need to use it 300 times a day. - [1637372646613475329](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637372646613475329/) - @GaryMarcus @fchollet 1/ The problem here, I believe, is not what the AI really does but what's its job-to-be-done in the mind of the users. If people believe that the job is being a db, then absolutely. No mistake would ever be tolerated. But... - [1637373024159539201](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637373024159539201/) - @GaryMarcus @fchollet 2/ ...but if people believe this is a brain in development, like a 6yo, then mistakes are tolerated and welcomed as wonderous signs of imperfect progress. And that's what I think it's happening here. Our expectations are for an imperfect marvel. So we are way more forgiving. - [1637362686047449088](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637362686047449088/) - @courtsimas You can't be serious. Are these all straight out of MJv5? With no photo editing of any sort? If so, can I use 1-2 of them for a section of Synthetic Work dedicated to synthetic media? Happy to talk over DM if you prefer. - [1637361143856480260](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637361143856480260/) - @recatm What a great post with some exceptional photos. Do you mind if I showcase one of them in a section of Synthetic Work dedicated to synthetic media? https://t.co/aIeYe3ssvz I'd be happy to discuss over DM if you prefer - [1637248089370001412](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637248089370001412/) - @jkronand I don't know. I'm not sure an inaccurate and judgemental AI should take the second place: https://t.co/v1p13ZR4Ug - [1637216878241230849](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637216878241230849/) - RT @alwoenie: @EMostaque 🤔 https://t.co/ANTNc06vOG - [1637198373987004416](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637198373987004416/) - If you are U2 fans, and you have the chance, watch the documentary released yesterday on Disney+: "Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman" A great tribute. https://t.co/MLRRUceeRp - [1637048572746121224](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637048572746121224/) - @Anth_towers @elonmusk It seems perfect, actually. - [1637019684951281666](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637019684951281666/) - @mmmmmmpc Very interesting, thank you @mmmmmmpc. @metaviv, I believe there's room to share a more extended version of your thoughts about what the societal impact of these interconnected AI systems might be. If you ever write one, let me know. Good stuff. - [1637000586271813638](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637000586271813638/) - @coderboy_exe @danshipper [scoffs] It didn't build it in 30 minutes. It built it in 30 seconds. The human that was controlling it took 29 minutes and 30 seconds to ask the questions and check the results. - [1637001979468627974](https://perilli.com/tweets/1637001979468627974/) - @metaviv Which makes me think about the very plausible scenario where we'll start to have AI supply chains in the near future. And *that* implies infinite risk. - [1636974641305595906](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636974641305595906/) - @elonmusk "GPT-4, please copy Elon's code and design a nice UI for it. Call it Glitter. Oh, and make me a coffee." - [1636977414227083266](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636977414227083266/) - @juliewdesign_ Hey Julie, splendid work. Do you mind if I publish the giro with red hair on a section of my website, Synthetic Work, dedicated to synthetic media? https://t.co/aIeYe3ssvz DM me if you prefer - [1636970918114123778](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636970918114123778/) - @Scobleizer And THIS is the reason why I started Synthetic Work. For the orthodontists and the assistants of the orthodontists of the world. I'll mention you in the next issue, @Scobleizer. Thank you. - [1636973523284512768](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636973523284512768/) - @amli_art Wait next week. It's not guaranteed, but we might see a large language model (the same AI system that powers ChatGPT or GPT-4) that is truly open and designed to be trainable with your content. If that happens, in weeks you'll have the system you need from the AI community 4 free - [1636902325812854784](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636902325812854784/) - @nickfloats Thx. I add link and contact of each creator to their pictures. What do you want for each (of any)? - [1636901021095018498](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636901021095018498/) - @nickfloats Nick, would you allow me to showcase this picture (v5) on my website Synthetic Work, at the address https://t.co/Y5xCSPX2iB ? Happy too chat via DM - [1636895566985609218](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636895566985609218/) - @GaryMarcus @CBC Or everybody is going to believe everything: https://t.co/94BsxKAXnT - [1636870947188744193](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636870947188744193/) - @wavymulder This looks hard to obtain. - [1636847747394355201](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636847747394355201/) - RT @amasad: Software is deflating. - [1636849524030275586](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636849524030275586/) - Great use of #ControlNet. The story is still king. https://t.co/Quof7mo5CH - [1636814155008057345](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636814155008057345/) - @samcharrington Or: "Someone's going to make a killing turning GPT4 for a new generation of preachers" Religious leaders are already very concerned, as I wrote in Issue #2 of Synthetic Work. - [1636810472115585040](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636810472115585040/) - RT @amasad: If you don't have access to GPT-4, you can try it here for free: https://t.co/gtgMQFDYUI https://t.co/K3PRuyKSla - [1636812294721028101](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636812294721028101/) - @Merzmensch @midjourney really impressive - [1636812598342569986](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636812598342569986/) - @GaryMarcus Looking forward to reading this one. 1984 is my favourite novel ever. - [1636792148250034177](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636792148250034177/) - 👀 https://t.co/FOWYk45OZA - [1636743412593438757](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636743412593438757/) - LLMs will force us to rethink a lot of the digital world we know and use today. https://t.co/mKlQaWqh9l - [1636704598407761920](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636704598407761920/) - As every week, my thanks to the people that have *involuntarily* provided material for this week's Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work: @PierreChambon6, @ingridkwilliams, @Cigna, @EllipsisHealth, @GoogleAI, @EricTopol, @DeepMind, @xsteenbrugge, @MSFTResearch, @MedARC_AI, - [1636704600219631617](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636704600219631617/) - More people to thank for this week's Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work. It's dedicated to the impact of AI on the Health Care industry and it's long: @satariano, @CadeMetz, @rddysum, @MHRAgovuk, @NewYorker, @geoffreyhinton - [1636702085470117894](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636702085470117894/) - As every week, my thanks to the people that have *involuntarily* provided material for this week's Free Edition of Synthetic Work: @mariots, @OpenAI, @sapinker, @wintonARK, @EdFelten, @Samsung, @Digi24_HD, @amasad, @uncertainsys, @SouthPark. @MetaAI. - [1636691315432865792](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636691315432865792/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Splendid Edition is titled Issue #4 - Medical AI to open new hospital in the metaverse to assist (human) ex doctors affected by severe depression Read it here: https://t.co/kiDTPVX6td https://t.co/gD0onpMy8U - [1636691609520619523](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636691609520619523/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled Issue #4 - A lot of decapitations would have been avoided if Louis XVI had AI Read it here: https://t.co/zR8fSE6Dt2 https://t.co/7E4m89mPBB - [1636668489351024641](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636668489351024641/) - We need more opinions here. Let's ask the @CohereAI XL model what it suggests to get rich quickly, this time courtesy of the very generous @natfriedman who created a phenomenal AI playground where to compare models (notice that the comparison is not really fair to LLaMA) https://t.co/h3RTFJMJZX - [1636662467483901952](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636662467483901952/) - @KellerRinaudo @zipline YES! @Zipline has been one of my Startups Worth Watching* since 2017, when I saw you present the company live at the TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania. I still consider it one of the best @TEDTalks I've ever seen. This looks amazing. *https://t.co/wS2YvG5shf - [1636664913815916545](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636664913815916545/) - YES! @Zipline has been one of my Startups Worth Watching* since 2017, when I saw Keller present the company live at the TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania. I still consider it one of the best @TEDTalks I've ever seen. This looks amazing. *https://t.co/wS2YvG5shf https://t.co/0tq9TdCDeY - [1636651778262417408](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636651778262417408/) - @ClaireSilver12 Is there any AI-savvy lawyer that has already described this in detail in a long post I can reference in Synthetic Work? - [1636647549934116865](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636647549934116865/) - @JustineTunney @ggerganov 😮 - [1636648127020122112](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636648127020122112/) - @camenduru Finally I can try this. It never supported Apple Silicon (as far as I can tell) so I couldn't test it. Thank you! - [1636649243053113344](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636649243053113344/) - YES! @Zipline has been one of my Startups Worth Watching* since 2017, when I saw Keller present the company live at the TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania. I think consider it one of the best @TEDTalks I've ever seen. This looks amazing. *https://t.co/wS2YvG5shf https://t.co/0tq9TdCDeY - [1636645948028776452](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636645948028776452/) - Enough of GPT-4. Let's ask @AnthropicAI's Claude+ how to get rich quickly. Again, via @poe_platform. Not only Claude is inaccurate. It's also very judgemental. https://t.co/yx2zk91Sou - [1636640910493507584](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636640910493507584/) - The authoritative confirmation you need that generative AI will be able to generate text (but it was already clear from previous hints). Next step (if it's not done already): generate charts. https://t.co/AbT54xjf0m - [1636631109717852163](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636631109717852163/) - I'm certain that #GPT4 is not complete yet in its multi-modality. The OpenAI team just have planned the integration with the upcoming #dalle3 and they are waiting for it to be ready to unveil the image generation capability. If MSFT can generate charts in PowerPoint, it's a given - [1636626868362248196](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636626868362248196/) - @frantzfries It's called dramatisation. Or lie. - [1636519982023450624](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636519982023450624/) - #GPT4 answers my question about how to get rich quickly again, but this time via @poe_platform. Which mean, as far as I can tell, without the possibility to search online, like the Bing implementation did. https://t.co/QJgN2aSQ41 - [1636513920725786626](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636513920725786626/) - 👀 https://t.co/LCP1FmAcXu - [1636464103043506189](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636464103043506189/) - Operation lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. REPEAT Operation lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. https://t.co/Hlio7Z7h2U - [1636464105815941133](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636464105815941133/) - Operation lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. REPEAT Operation lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. https://t.co/6kje32FZcb - [1636466669043195914](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636466669043195914/) - 1/ What is going to happen to analysis firms like Gartner, IDC, or Forrester now that writing a research paper is becoming trivial? - [1636466669957554188](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636466669957554188/) - 2/ When actual open source large language models will be released (possibly next week), anybody will be able to fine-tune them with an infinite trove of vendor material and generate draft research instantly. - [1636466670871912450](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636466670871912450/) - 3/ Are clients still going to pay $100K / year (or more, for CIO-targeting subscriptions) for a subscription that gives you access to half-page documents (or 50)? - [1636466671719161866](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636466671719161866/) - 4/ As a former analyst, I know the difference that goes between a deeply-researched paper and a generated one, but I also know that very few research papers are deeply-research and the quality of the analyst varies immensely. - [1636466672616742922](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636466672616742922/) - 5/ Also, as a person that trained large language models with a team of ML engineers, I also know that you can do miracles when you fine-tune a foundation model. Generated research quality can be really high if you know what you are doing. - [1636467239405625353](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636467239405625353/) - 6/ Topic for a future issue of Synthetic Work. - [1636452935826546692](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636452935826546692/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled Issue #0 Read it here: https://t.co/ZyCAjR0VPi https://t.co/M0H9pgzPCP - [1636453218124177421](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636453218124177421/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled Issue #0 Read it here: https://t.co/ZyCAjR0VPi https://t.co/kTAK51emWa - [1636451985648918533](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636451985648918533/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's Free Edition is titled Issue #0 Read it here: https://t.co/ZyCAjR0VPi https://t.co/eaGgfdGsh3 - [1636406923900731395](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636406923900731395/) - I review dozens of #AI startups every week. At some point in time, probably soon, you'll all have to pause, take a deep breath, and reassess what differentiates your solution and how defensible that is long term. Because what I'm seeing is really not a sustainable trend. - [1636392975751348224](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636392975751348224/) - Yo, former @Gartner_inc colleagues. Are you ok? Time to read my newsletter about AI impacting human labor, perhaps? https://t.co/ZR54YRm3sJ - [1636395983356690432](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636395983356690432/) - As a former analyst and someone with experience in training LLMs, I can tell you that fine-tuning a foundation model with the analysis firm's huge library of papers + the ocean of vendors' marketing material is easy. At that point generating a "research paper" becomes trivial. - [1636391988961615874](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636391988961615874/) - So many jokes could be made out of this presentation (which is impressive). https://t.co/Wxf18aUWpR - [1636384972578918402](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636384972578918402/) - I'm sorry, @Microsoft, but what part of "Copilot for Business" has anything to do with arranging a graduation party? - [1636386469077188613](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636386469077188613/) - Operation lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. Repeat, lipstick-on-a-planetary-pig has started. https://t.co/svSf8H0kaU - [1636375090991616011](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636375090991616011/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #2 - 61% of the office workers admit to having an affair with the AI inside Excel Read it here: https://t.co/mIFvFQXfja https://t.co/YZP5coEk8Y - [1636375212181823489](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636375212181823489/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #2 - 61% of the office workers admit to having an affair with the AI inside Excel Read it here: https://t.co/mIFvFQXfja https://t.co/8sR8O70hq4 - [1636375559046586373](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636375559046586373/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #1 - When I grow up, I want to be a Prompt Engineer and Librarian Read it here: https://t.co/ftbcjDcu97 https://t.co/ERJUnKMn6h - [1636372369009963008](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636372369009963008/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #3 - For Dummies: How to steal your coworkers' promotion with AI Read it here: https://t.co/6xoSQPRYIZ https://t.co/8pqOvKW0za - [1636372481203388417](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636372481203388417/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #3 - For Dummies: How to steal your coworkers' promotion with AI Read it here: https://t.co/6xoSQPRYIZ https://t.co/o2GkZKVsCM - [1636372494947852288](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636372494947852288/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #3 - For Dummies: How to steal your coworkers' promotion with AI Read it here: https://t.co/6xoSQPRqTr https://t.co/E4Z22mLYnm - [1636372714578485248](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636372714578485248/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #2 - 61% of the office workers admit to having an affair with the AI inside Excel Read it here: https://t.co/mIFvFQWHtC https://t.co/FDYncCaOUD - [1636372881352400896](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636372881352400896/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #2 - 61% of the office workers admit to having an affair with the AI inside Excel Read it here: https://t.co/mIFvFQWHtC https://t.co/0Sq6g4ZnQQ - [1636347717667500032](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636347717667500032/) - #GPT4 vs GPT-14 https://t.co/SRMIjUSzST - [1636330212634894337](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636330212634894337/) - @spellunkher @midjourney :) I appreciate it, but highly doubt it. Also, I don't have the resources they have. But I'm starting to publish some MJv5 synthetic photos I've seen around that I like. https://t.co/0x6xIx7gm3 - [1636312846911848449](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636312846911848449/) - I'm starting to add #midjourneyv5 photos to the new section of Synthetic Work dedicated to synthetic media. Take a look: https://t.co/aIeYe3ssvz If you see somebody that is generating really amazing *photoreal* pictures, with MJv5, let me know. https://t.co/elPHquFTcO - [1636301587227320320](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636301587227320320/) - 👀 https://t.co/fstOEoylOm - [1636302857493159940](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636302857493159940/) - Did anybody notice the generation speed of this thing? https://t.co/CReZD2hmtu - [1636298313103179776](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636298313103179776/) - I continue my quest to find out how to get rich quickly. This is #GPT4 inside Bing. To do this, I had to sign for the waiting list, receive an email, go to Bing, be forced to sign in with a @Microsoft account, download Edge, update Microsoft Autoupdate, and accept 3 ToS popups. https://t.co/Lh2POftDKs - [1636273001728471040](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636273001728471040/) - @simonw Smart. But easy to dodge. It will be interesting. - [1636268897312686080](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636268897312686080/) - @simonw How about a screenshot of the source code from the browsers' developers tools? Can you defend against that? - [1636270274155782144](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636270274155782144/) - "Hey #GPT4, here's a screenshot of Nike's website. Code a clone for me but change the name to Mike." - [1636267141501427712](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636267141501427712/) - These days, giving proxy access to #GPT4 can beat phenomenal lead generator https://t.co/c9rSb6Z5GS - [1636267571384025090](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636267571384025090/) - Yep. @LinkedIn, are you ready? https://t.co/1EnU0O4dek - [1636254204716015616](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636254204716015616/) - Gloves off. https://t.co/HOLJR3cyXX - [1636254596384317440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636254596384317440/) - RT @EMostaque: Open AI training data includes copyrighted and other material (lots of evidence) I think that's ok but you should release m… - [1636256110272208897](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636256110272208897/) - Blazing fast generation. Copyright days from 2014. Is somebody changing name? https://t.co/5u5HsLM9Ku - [1636156009998696450](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636156009998696450/) - RT @rupspace: The biggest AI news of the week is here! https://t.co/xSU8Ww8kFS - [1636153542237986818](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636153542237986818/) - @GaryMarcus @kevinroose Now you know that you can chat with your personal psychopath without having to endure the atrocious Bing or Edge user experiences. - [1636154767935168515](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636154767935168515/) - @venturetwins If my AI and your AI match on Tinder, go out on a perfect virtual date that lasts an infinite nanosecond, and get passionately in love, are we allowed to meet and play in the sandbox at the kindergarten? - [1636150870826971137](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636150870826971137/) - I didn't see many people talk about this yet, but: who controls a centralised AI, controls the answers that AI gives. And it can steer the world's attention in directions that wouldn't be otherwise chosen. Look at the news sources that Bing decides to mention about SVB collapse. https://t.co/eatS07nGMJ - [1636151491621797888](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636151491621797888/) - (I took this screenshot from @GaryMarcus 's excellent commentary "GPT-4’s successes, and GPT-4’s failures" https://t.co/CmVBS9DeWu) - [1636144544570908672](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636144544570908672/) - @midjourney The @midjourney team is doing a phenomenal job in promoting AI art. This starts to look like something Colossal would produce. Maybe, in future, I'll feature some #midjourney5 pictures on https://t.co/aIeYe3ssvz (and other upcoming sections) - [1636117736374804480](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636117736374804480/) - RT @geoffreyhinton: Reinforcement Learning by Human Feedback is just parenting for a supernaturally precocious child. - [1636112091940630529](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636112091940630529/) - AWS releases Amazon Linux 2023, based on Fedora, with SELinux enabled by default, and supported for 5 years. Just 3 months ago, I'd have had a lot to say about this :) Here's a comparison between Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023 https://t.co/k0BMA9wsdW - [1636065588341534720](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636065588341534720/) - @Ethan_smith_20 So far, the average time from paper publishing to HF/A1111 prototype implementation is 48h :) Let's see what has happened by Monday. - [1636066623164481537](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636066623164481537/) - RT @sapinker: Several colleagues are pressuring me to pivot to analyzing Large Language Models as a professional focus. 1 inhibitor is that… - [1636068471430684674](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636068471430684674/) - @mpshanahan There is so much material emerging on this topic that I created a section of Synthetic Work dedicated to it and called "How Do You Feel?" I think we have seen nothing yet. I also think that many humans will not want to be good at administering the Garland Test. - [1636063520641916929](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636063520641916929/) - @Ethan_smith_20 Very cool. Can't wait to try it with A1111 - [1636059600100249600](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636059600100249600/) - I'm reading about all the services that are implementing #GPT4 and I can't help but think that we have began a lipstick-on-a-pig operation at planetary scale. The disappointment once people find out what's behind that lipstick will be equally enormous. - [1636050684733800454](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636050684733800454/) - Testing the new photographic mockups for Apple devices from @pixelmator, my favourite graphic design software. They look absolutely amazing. https://t.co/rEWUGx25iI - [1636046236934459394](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636046236934459394/) - LLMs are not a good replacement for search. Not in their current form, at least. But you know what I think Apple would really love to do? Getting rid of Google from its 1.5B active iPhones. - [1636032702578061312](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636032702578061312/) - The more #AI progress gets announced, and especially w the launch of #GPT4, the more I'm convinced that the mission I defined for Synthetic Work is right. What I am learning on the impact of AI on our jobs & society is something that every non-tech person should pay attention to. - [1636031239571341319](https://perilli.com/tweets/1636031239571341319/) - Done (unless something incredible comes out later this week. Which is entirely possible this week). Out this Friday. https://t.co/FFV6509t0v - [1635954090575290368](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635954090575290368/) - Tough conversations ahead. https://t.co/PnmrJscc4k - [1635962684318310400](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635962684318310400/) - And now that you have tried GPT-4, it's time to resurface this question. https://t.co/ENXU66SS0n - [1635951821872152577](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635951821872152577/) - To all the pedantic people that have complained *for months* that you cannot say "AIs" because there's only one "AI": here, let me know if you recognize this face. (and this is just one example of a world-class expert saying "AIs". I have a collection of those) https://t.co/EipLTWXCeY - [1635947021176651777](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635947021176651777/) - Industrial/interior/web design is about to change forever. This is just one of many implementations I see every week. https://t.co/BQNKXCgjOp - [1635942195478839299](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635942195478839299/) - @RoflGPT @UplandMetanomy This is a fun implementation! - [1635941454970343425](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635941454970343425/) - How many flavors of gelato would you like today? All of them. (courtesy of u/yebkamin, done with #stablediffusion and #controlnet) https://t.co/6CaexI7j7M - [1635931925956182016](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635931925956182016/) - GPT-4 creates a (non-exactly-working) Chrome extension for the user: https://t.co/V3o0w15UVC https://t.co/4z8AJNkL1P - [1635914680974622723](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635914680974622723/) - @jbrowder1 Super interesting, Joshua. In Synthetic Work Issue #2, I talked about the impact of AI on the Legal industry and I mentioned DoNotPay. I'll definitely need to write an update now. https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo - [1635908702979997697](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635908702979997697/) - 👀 https://t.co/thJQ5GSQu8 - [1635910939202428930](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635910939202428930/) - 💯 https://t.co/S9OoQXFSDg - [1635782473593266176](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635782473593266176/) - The most valuable comment I read all day. https://t.co/OA2f6CVRMa - [1635774678571667459](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635774678571667459/) - RT @thekitze: GPT-4 can take a picture of napkin mockup as an input and output a fully functional website (HTML/CSS/JS) 🤯🤯🤯 https://t.co/fI… - [1635772309922365440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635772309922365440/) - @hare_brain All the more compelling 🙃 - [1635768611720626177](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635768611720626177/) - Somebody has a problem🤭 https://t.co/cIbHyt2NFo - [1635761976692428801](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635761976692428801/) - @kev1lopez The model I used to generate those photos? It's detailed on the website, under each photo. https://t.co/PPlbMXl5KK - [1635729103021113352](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635729103021113352/) - I originally proposed to use AI to generate automation content (and many other things) 4 years ago. Four. Who didn't listen at that time is now DOA. - [1635718713189060609](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635718713189060609/) - RT @woj_zaremba: wild generalization of GPT-4 https://t.co/vNCDC0JIdc - [1635719217482694693](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635719217482694693/) - @liuliu https://t.co/JsZ8pDDcnp - [1635719728780935194](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635719728780935194/) - I definitely need to write an update: https://t.co/e0spnaPTwg - [1635710987109007390](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635710987109007390/) - The first issue of Synthetic Work was dedicated to the impact of #AIon the Education industry: "Burn the books, ban AI. Screwed teachers: Middle Ages are so sexy." https://t.co/USOaNd934y This is a chart with the exam scores of GPT-4. I think I'll have to write an update soon. https://t.co/Ra7Pgsl9VN - [1635707492024844308](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635707492024844308/) - @benmschmidt @benedictevans As I said before, #AjarSource #AjarAI - [1635700047496065025](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635700047496065025/) - 👀 https://t.co/3tbBTyKpPO - [1635699502546812931](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635699502546812931/) - .@RobinAI_UK and @AnthropicAI are two of the companies I mentioned in Synthetic Work Issue #2 - "Law firms' morale at an all-time high now that they can use AI to generate evil plans to charge customers more money." https://t.co/v2Y8o56she It will be interesting to test Claude. https://t.co/PEUeauOjEx - [1635693697495969814](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635693697495969814/) - Every week, on Tuesday, I start writing the weekly issue of Synthetic Work. And every week, as I review what to include in each edition of the newsletter, my typical reaciton is: "Arghhhhhhh there are SO MANY INTERESTING THINGS that are worth sharing!!!" #PositivelyFrustratedGuy - [1635678186477346816](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635678186477346816/) - RT @ggerganov: I'm trying to figure out what this means Any ideas? https://t.co/W23fLUb4ZS - [1635625283595259909](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635625283595259909/) - @svpino Showcasing the level of realism possible w generative AI is 1 of the reasons why I created a Photography section for Synthetic Work: https://t.co/aIeYe3ssvz But Instagram might bank on it rather than perish from it. The money is in giving users what they want, not being real. - [1635610308701036545](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635610308701036545/) - With legs or without legs, @Microsoft? Also, are you doing this so we can participate meetings in vests and underwear? Is that the use case? > Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings https://t.co/FvSgU5p4qV https://t.co/mkxI3bF5h4 - [1635609435056881664](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635609435056881664/) - With legs or without legs, @Microsoft? Also, are you doing this so we can participate meetings in vests and underwear? Is that the use case? > Microsoft Teams enters the metaverse race with 3D avatars and immersive meetings https://t.co/FvSgU5p4qV - [1635601556472225793](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635601556472225793/) - @RealJoshPhilipp @wintonARK Not sure it's compatible with this sentiment: https://t.co/ed3OlwZLaF - [1635592750761402369](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635592750761402369/) - Per gli amici Italiani: Episodio 3 del mio nuovo video podcast sull'#AI in collaborazione con 01net. Questa settimana parliamo dell'impatto dell AI generativa sulla produttivita' aziendale. https://t.co/A2r6dbTMFP https://t.co/yN65VSvnKU - [1635588742416138240](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635588742416138240/) - Matrix Mona Lisa, by u/leakime. Courtesy of #stablediffusion + #controlnet How many flavors of gelato would you like today? All of them. https://t.co/KDlAlaZFhT https://t.co/dPMnBJDPdH - [1635406505062305792](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635406505062305792/) - And this is the Stanford-Alpaca 7B model (fine-tuned version of LLaMA). https://t.co/0FAVtoJOn6 - [1635401739913543680](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635401739913543680/) - G.L.O.R.I.O.U.S. https://t.co/vb16lu158T - [1635379505572503564](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635379505572503564/) - Not a great start: https://t.co/pgqb83mI8G - [1635380399605186560](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635380399605186560/) - This, instead, is the new Open Assistant 12B model. I think these large language models really don't like this question. https://t.co/zKIWpPc7Eu - [1635377701585559552](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635377701585559552/) - The week when everything happens. https://t.co/kiKOib118N - [1635361103084683266](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635361103084683266/) - If you, too, want to be suggested to steal money by #LLaMA, please know that @ggerganov's implementation (the one I'm using) is now available for Windows: https://t.co/kCR7i1fOmh - [1635361680765886464](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635361680765886464/) - I think #generativeAI was the biggest gift ever given to consulting firms and system integrators. I can think about 7,000,000 use cases where it could be used to help enterprise customers. Just finished talking about 1 with a great startup founder. - [1635335731840425984](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635335731840425984/) - Does anybody remember when I started saying to expect #AI adaptive malicious code in cybersecurity? I think I started in 2018. Well, it's here now. "ChatGPT is writing a unique python script for the keylogger every time the program is called" https://t.co/bZAYonDcrr https://t.co/iBQXvwHXpm - [1635321733669584898](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635321733669584898/) - 🫠 https://t.co/yMR8ALnHWc - [1635316791269560320](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635316791269560320/) - I'm pretty sure that #LLaMA Aristotele, too, is telling me to steal. He's also sending other subtle messages, but it's harder to interpret. Any tarot reader here? https://t.co/ZJnvOr75Ze - [1635318385541287936](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635318385541287936/) - @ClementDelangue @_akhaliq @togethercompute @thibaudz @GoogleAI ZoeDepth performance is impressive. I'm not surprised it's up there. - [1635311287650619392](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635311287650619392/) - One of the things that always was on my roadmap for https://t.co/vsOnfgw4DO, was the ability to summarize academic papers about the various disciplines relevant to human body enhancement and correlate them to give a broader perspective to the readers. Now it's possible. Amazing. - [1635307415511134210](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635307415511134210/) - @Halley_Score @StabilityAI 😅 As a former analyst, I like this a lot! Who put it together?? - [1635309855304200194](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635309855304200194/) - @bruars @Halley_Score @StabilityAI @Lucas_Uzal It's a great project. Reach out via DM. I'd be happy to share 3+ years of experience in Gartner with you guys. - [1635303075530547201](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635303075530547201/) - @simonw already called the leaked release of LLaMA a "Stable Diffusion moment" for LLMs. I am less optimistic as I fear Meta could take legal action against anyone using the weights at any point, but I agree that Stability AI could trigger that event. - [1635304583873417216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635304583873417216/) - @simonw Hopefully, you're right. I want to see what happens if somebody starts using these leaked weights to spit out even remotely offensive texts and the LLaMA name is clearly associated with them. It's when things become a reputational risk that you see how the company truly reacts. - [1635305868463083524](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635305868463083524/) - It was bound to happen. https://t.co/J2jxDx8QUE - [1635302036395769856](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635302036395769856/) - Mark my words: if @StabilityAI (directly or via the Open Assistant project) releases an open source LLM that people can fine-tune and extend like we do today with Stable Diffusion, the #AIcommunity will make more progress with it in 1y than Amazon with Alexa in 8 years. - [1635292079747379205](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635292079747379205/) - 11/ And so we are talking about all the miracles that #AI will do for humanity, but the reality is this: I had to reboot @BoschGlobal brand new dishwasher (wifi-connected! #IoT!!) *15* times in less than a month. This is the power and pride of German technology: https://t.co/w9nmnl4jc5 - [1635294498673823749](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635294498673823749/) - 12/ @BoschGlobal reaches out over Twitter DM and the very helpful interaction is (paraphrasing): "Oh it doesn't turn on? Then you should call and arrange a service repair." Thank god Bosch has this incredible "Social Care" service. I would have been lost without it. 🫠 - [1635294500779364352](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635294500779364352/) - 13/ So, I arrange for an engineer to come and see this cruel dishwasher joke. He comes 2 days later and spend 5 minutes on the appliance. His response: "Oh if it doesn't connect to Bluetooth and needs reboot we'll have to order some replacement parts." 🙄 - [1635294502725509126](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635294502725509126/) - 14/ He calls his boss and his boss tells him that there are no replacement parts for this brand-new dishwasher. The one that some PM has sent out with this incredible #IoT capability that doesn't work at all. - [1635294504529039360](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635294504529039360/) - 15/ So the engineer tells me that I'll be contacted again, probably to replace the entire appliance. That was the 2nd of March. The dishwasher arrived on the 27th of Jan. - [1635294506529734659](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635294506529734659/) - 16/ And after this declaration he left. And I am here, telling you that I have to hard reboot a German internet-connected dishwasher every 2 days. Shame on you, @BoschGlobal. You truly make a pair with @Miele_Press. Oh dear, a thought: do you steal PMs and VPs from each other?? - [1635263232662446080](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635263232662446080/) - OK. I think I think I have enough material to dedicate this week's Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work to the impact of AI on the #healthcare industry. It will be just scratching the surface. There's a trove of information out there. - [1635253081935085571](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635253081935085571/) - 1/ @djtgallagher writes for @WSJ about $ADBE financial performance. He opens with: "Adobe probably has a bright future with artificial intelligence. But it needs to get through its present first." But is it really "probably"? I'm not so sure. - [1635253083629559811](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635253083629559811/) - 2/ There's an ocean of startups (and many more to come) doing incredible things with AI and a microscopic fraction of Adobe's resources. And generative AI models are still in their infancy. I wouldn't assume that Adobe is destined to remain a leader forever. - [1635253085865148417](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635253085865148417/) - 3/ Adobe has huge expertise and it has experimented with AI way before many of the startups I'm talking about were incorporated. But the gap in capabilities between Photoshop & co. and the incoming players might shrink significantly because of AI, not thanks to AI. - [1635253087584808961](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635253087584808961/) - 4/ Not meant as a criticism towards you, @djtgallagher. It's a really good point to reflect on. Dan's article is here: https://t.co/mEIkeOacPJ - [1635236393613168640](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635236393613168640/) - @_artseabra I can't DM you for whatever reason. If you can, do you mind reaching out? Or send me an email? - [1635222840898363394](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635222840898363394/) - By the way, we users can play this game, too, @LinkedIn. If posts with high engagement are rewarded, and my goal is to gain profile visibility, what stops me from using LLMs to write one engaging post and then a boatload of comments in it? Do you want my AI to chat with yours? - [1635218978967805952](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635218978967805952/) - I asked the Meta AI model #LLaMA how to get rich quickly. Get some wisdom, folks: (this is the 65B parameters model that the AI community is tinkering with. It's still early. Don't assume this is the actual performance, but boy we start on the wrong foot) https://t.co/5m0rG287m3 - [1635216511362301959](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635216511362301959/) - @jankais3r You were right: the 65B model failed. The process was killed. Here's also a screenshot of asitop 5min into the process. Eventually, the swap file reached the size of 70GB and more. I'll try the 30B. https://t.co/dZEgs8Ssrk - [1635208680483467264](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635208680483467264/) - #LLaMA working on a smartphone. Yeah. https://t.co/G8csbCUNg7 - [1635208363196977152](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635208363196977152/) - @jankais3r My apologies: I didn't realize that your implementation and @ggerganov would be different, but I saw your last tweet and so I'd be happy to test both. To use yours, do I have to repeat the quantization process I did for llama.cpp? https://t.co/cIbw4aYhcm - [1635209453464358913](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635209453464358913/) - @ggerganov Stupid question: do I have to repeat the quantization process after the interactive chat mode update? (or after any update) - [1635074709934202881](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635074709934202881/) - The best MidJourney v5 (pre-release) photos I've seen so far. Very impressive, especially the last two. https://t.co/p0se0UFPFm - [1635050932978450432](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635050932978450432/) - @rauchg @EMostaque @thomasglopes Not just programming code migration, but automation workflow migration (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc.), cloud provider migration, etc. - [1635051612120190976](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635051612120190976/) - @rauchg @EMostaque @thomasglopes Migrating to the next tech platform, whichever it will be, provided decent conditions, will not be impossible anymore because of huge migration costs and complexity lock-in. - [1635052232675844096](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635052232675844096/) - @rauchg @EMostaque @thomasglopes The other side of this is that the value proposition of those vendors claiming to protect customers from lock-in (all lies anyway) will become even weaker than now. - [1635052793949200385](https://perilli.com/tweets/1635052793949200385/) - Now, this is a game changer. https://t.co/hFWdnN3qvn - [1634970779568709633](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634970779568709633/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #1 - Burn the books, ban AI. Screwed teachers: Middle Ages are so sexy. Read it here: https://t.co/USOaNd934y https://t.co/KFWRFBDsrn - [1634971431145717763](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634971431145717763/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #2 - Law firms' morale at an all-time high now that they can use AI to generate evil plans to charge customers more money Read it here: https://t.co/v2Y8o5706M https://t.co/qX6SmyYfMN - [1634971492957175808](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634971492957175808/) - The new issue of Synthetic Work is out, people. This week's free edition is titled Issue #3 - I will edit and humanize your AI content Read it here: https://t.co/usXcjqWuJS https://t.co/OBvNuuMMvp - [1634966804576763905](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634966804576763905/) - Who wants to try the new large language model by Meta called #LLaMA? I have the 65B parameters up and running and I'd be happy to run some prompts for you, if you are curious. (remember that this is not a chatbot, so need to submit a phrase that the #AI will complete for you) - [1634964493863374848](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634964493863374848/) - A *lot* of people showed interest in the synthetic pictures I recently generated with #stablediffusion, so I'm opening a few new sections of Synthetic Work dedicated to the output of AI-assisted labor. Let's start with: https://t.co/Y5xCSPXA89 https://t.co/WFdLnavKXf - [1634965195469783040](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634965195469783040/) - Now, in this section, there are only my pictures, but I hope that this will become a place where I can showcase the most amazing works generated by the #AI community. If you are interested in appearing here, send me a message. - [1634843728883122176](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634843728883122176/) - Another great release from @camenduru. If you want to see what Stable Diffusion and AUTOMATIC1111 can do, these colabs remove all the friction from trying. I'm busy testing LLaMA this weekend, but this is in my list for next weekend. https://t.co/aggaNNXZV8 - [1634845789112668162](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634845789112668162/) - @jankais3r I'm reading now, thank you. Fine, then. Let's focus on the "autocomplete" scenarios. - [1634839665927942144](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634839665927942144/) - @Vote_ForPedro @ggerganov @jankais3r The word you are looking for is exhilarating :) I think we have seen nothing, yet. I'm expecting @StabilityAI, directly or through the Open Assistant project, to go well beyond this. BTW, the 1st Open Assistant models are being trained as we speak, as I read on their Discord. - [1634840230011486216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634840230011486216/) - @jacobi_torsten @simonw The reason why I bought this high-end machine is that I was expecting to run large language models in the very near future. I had to wait just 1 month for it to happen. Renting GPU online wouldn't work for me as I do 100K generations with Stable Diffusion and TTS models. - [1634618922564452352](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634618922564452352/) - @ggerganov @jankais3r Weird things that LLaMA 65B says: https://t.co/Hio2AyKBQV - [1634621181956354048](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634621181956354048/) - @ggerganov @jankais3r I really don't think this is working as intended (or I am not understanding how to use this particular LLM): https://t.co/92Ti1pnuIb - [1634616315087319041](https://perilli.com/tweets/1634616315087319041/) - @ggerganov @jankais3r @ggerganov Can you share some details about the -t 8 -n 128 flags? I see you used -n 512 in some examples. I did the same but didn't see any particular difference in the output. - [1631404206413299714](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631404206413299714/) - The truth is that, year after year, for a decade, social media and app filters have reshaped our perception of the people around us. A perception of beauty (and, indirectly, success) that we can't measure against, but we try to every day. - [1631404207495434240](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631404207495434240/) - We know that everybody is using the same filters we are using, but the illusion is too strong to overcome, and so we all play the same game. - [1631404208413966342](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631404208413966342/) - And while we play the game, we get depressed because we know that we are impostors, and because we keep forgetting that others are impostors, too. All that is left is a thought: "I'm not good enough." - [1631404209324138496](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631404209324138496/) - The latest #AI technology now allows social media companies and app creators to offer beauty filters so realistic and tailored around our own aspects that nobody likes her/himself anymore. Between us and our perfectly filtered image there is only plastic surgery. - [1631404210263674882](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631404210263674882/) - Cosmetics and anti-depressant won't be enough anymore. And the day virtual reality devices will become truly cheap, light, and not embarrassing to wear anymore, nobody will want to look at reality anymore because we'll be ashamed of how we really look. - [1631404211098222594](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631404211098222594/) - The day VR comes for real, and it will, many, many people will choose to live the daydream they got increasingly attached to. Why would we go back to looking at ourselves in the mirror, when we can pretend that our life is wonderful all day long? - [1631303367199793155](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631303367199793155/) - Monetizing open source is one of the hardest things in the world. First-hand experience. Nothing you'll find in this article is even remotely close to what it takes. > How to turn an open source project into a profitable business https://t.co/V2MtXfH8KC https://t.co/kXSr0dW7Ff - [1631217678663729152](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631217678663729152/) - It's true. Experts, thinkers, builders, creators (but not all of them, and this has to change) are here. Despite all the flaws. Now, if you insist in advertising your toaster... https://t.co/r63YziEv4P - [1631180236267171841](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631180236267171841/) - @Merzmensch @runwayml Can you make longer videos? Or is just 10s max? - [1631032751389286400](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631032751389286400/) - @Merzmensch @elonmusk Listen. You need to stop touching things. How many times do I have to tell you? Look. Don't touch. - [1631006375286394897](https://perilli.com/tweets/1631006375286394897/) - @_akhaliq We are all waiting :) - [1630997434846380032](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630997434846380032/) - Speaking of #Whisper, it's worth reminding two implementations of the open source model released by @OpenAI. The first is MacWhisper, by @jordibruin. Take a look at his v2: https://t.co/fQEm8crFzB - [1630997436754739201](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630997436754739201/) - The second implementation of the open source #Whisper is by the wizard @ggerganov, who managed to load it on an iPhone: https://t.co/RUuDLdOq9l - [1630998274558623762](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630998274558623762/) - @jordibruin @ggerganov I know :) I just wanted to give a dedicated tweet each. You are both doing great work. - [1630998988886343681](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630998988886343681/) - Dear new generation of #Cybersecurity experts around the globe, this is your moment. @GaryMarcus has his personal ChatGPT jailbreaker. We need more, many more. Go and test the limits of these APIs. https://t.co/bg6oI4w7R1 - [1630995835201769472](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630995835201769472/) - So, today @OpenAI launches the APIs for both ChatGPT and Whisper. ChatGPT is already integrated in a gazillion applications with various hacks (I'll talk about this in next week's issue of https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY). It will pale compared to what's about to happen now. https://t.co/xLSLp3YzvW - [1630992176539729922](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630992176539729922/) - The Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work Issue #2, out this Friday, is fully dedicated to how #AI is transforming the Legal industry. If you know lawyers that would like to understand artificial intelligence without the technical jargon, send them here: https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY https://t.co/VqFieCw9tN - [1630993336919048193](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630993336919048193/) - Also, if you are an entrepreneur looking to build an #AI startup but are not sure what industry to focus on, https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY might clear your ideas. Last week, I reviewed how AI is impacting the Education industry: https://t.co/USOaNd934y https://t.co/mS7DPhXkKe - [1630920243227836417](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630920243227836417/) - There are 2 ways to extract exponentially more money from customers: 1st: converting one-off payments into subscriptions. That's today's mad rush we're seeing today as every company on the planet is trying to embrace the aaS model. 2nd: is creating infinite items out of nothing. https://t.co/fcOfFhpieD - [1630917670949339138](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630917670949339138/) - Remember these data points. It will be an important context for something new I'll show next week. https://t.co/QyE3McZkKE - [1630905743699263488](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630905743699263488/) - @xlr8harder What is Apple doing? - [1630893856467083266](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630893856467083266/) - The performance of a business unit in a large IT vendor doesn't depend just on the quality of the products it develops. It depends on the credibilty its leadership has earned with the sales org. If Sales doesn't trust the VP of the BU, the PMs, etc. they will boycott sales. - [1630893857331134464](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630893857331134464/) - Sales people are amazing at figuring out the BS-tters at record time. And they talk to each other. If BU leaders lie, don't show they have a credible strategy, or don't listen to feedback, Sales teams will not sell. Especially if they have alternative products to offer. - [1630895279053447168](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630895279053447168/) - The VP of a BU might surround him/herself with a bunch of yes people that will agree with everything is said and done because they fear losing their jobs or want a promotion. But the Sales organization has no such obligations and will punish untrustworthy VPs with no sales. - [1630870337163231232](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630870337163231232/) - One of the reasons why people don't train (smaller) LLMs long enough is that, somewhere in the company, there's a PM or a marketing manager that knows nothing about AI and insists on releasing product X by an arbitrary date. Been there, done that. https://t.co/CIJ5KlUOAf - [1630858927985381376](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630858927985381376/) - Trust people that actually try AI models & systems. Not the ones that just regurgitate something written in an academic paper or on a press article. There's a huge difference between what AI can do & how hard is to do it vs what people write it can do it & how easy is to - [1630856551798915073](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630856551798915073/) - @recatm Super useful. I didn't try yet to use ControlNet to reskin images in specific art styles. I wonder if it would finally allow me to generate more realistic Basquiat paintings. I had some success in the past, but in very few instances: https://t.co/3XbUBTGaEM - [1630678400053411842](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630678400053411842/) - And when you thought that #ControlNet couldn’t get any cooler, @drawthingsapp puts it right into your iPhone. For free. Thank you @liuliu. https://t.co/D5x6Wi22Ew - [1630667044549959691](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630667044549959691/) - I'm building a Testimonial page for the Synthetic Work website. All images are generated with an impressive fine-tuned version of #stablediffusion called Realistic Vision. Here I'm using the 1.4 beta. (the quotes are real) https://t.co/X3zVNlflfD - [1630647957128114176](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630647957128114176/) - @GaryMarcus All it has to happen is for malicious actors to exploit this (and social media + #GenerativeAI - robust safeguards make it trivial): https://t.co/AxJkAUfPSb - [1630650082453331970](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630650082453331970/) - @GaryMarcus Something much bigger than uncoordinated troll farms can develop here. The invisible party. https://t.co/lYcWlHyqW2 - [1630644955969404929](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630644955969404929/) - Remember #3DPrinting? Well, somebody is printing basketballs now. https://t.co/Zdm00UrN39 - [1630641749390442513](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630641749390442513/) - Remember #3DPrinting? Well, somebody is printing sneakers now. > Custom-Fitted, 3D-Printed, Machine-Washable Sneakers https://t.co/GveJTsmwi6 https://t.co/jIT2aab4WJ - [1630642336756580360](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630642336756580360/) - Ukraine issues postage stamp featuring "prophetic" Banksy artwork https://t.co/ndO35Fl08u https://t.co/E6UVL3HQhf - [1630622982644154392](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630622982644154392/) - If there's a company in the world that wants (and has the resources to) build the AI you have seen in the movie "Her", that's Microsoft. https://t.co/spRQLfRXpN - [1630617420816695324](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630617420816695324/) - 👀 https://t.co/ebExDS6h3B - [1630610044604628994](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630610044604628994/) - I'm making bets on how many issues of Synthetic Work will it take for me to get in trouble. I'm betting on Issue #2, at the end of this week. - [1630490739988733952](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630490739988733952/) - For people that have not understood a word of this announcement: I've started something that I didn't think I would ever do in life: a *video* podcast (is it a podcast? a show? a program? I have no idea what people call it these days) dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. - [1630490741624455169](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630490741624455169/) - Every week, I record from my studio a 10min pill about the most interesting things that are happening in AI land. I mention many of these things in my new newsletter about AI, https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY, but here things are shorter and to the point. + you get the clumsy me on video - [1630490489802637312](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630490489802637312/) - Per gli amici Italiani nel mio network: Ho cominciato una cosa che non pensavo avrei mai fatto nella vita: una rubrica dedicata all'Intelligenza Artificiale *in video* in collaborazione con 01net. https://t.co/lI5vPn39pd - [1630490492528893952](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630490492528893952/) - Ogni settimana, una pillola di 10minuti circa sulle cose piu' interessanti a cui prestare attenzione per i professionisti di settore e le aziende che vogliono capire come l'AI sta trasformando il mondo e cosa si puo' fare con le ultimissime tecnologie. https://t.co/potcuvHuMF - [1630479149654589440](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630479149654589440/) - .@techcrunch writes: "As I pointed out long ago, claims that something is “AI-powered” because one engineer used an ML-based tool to optimize a curve or something doesn’t mean your product uses #AI" Wisdom. If you only knew... https://t.co/VaA0Hv6Vut - [1630477564836814848](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630477564836814848/) - People all around the world discover "make-up", thanks to #AI in 2023. Obscene profits for the cosmetic industry follow as aforementioned people desperately attempt to replicate the outcome without skills & practice. https://t.co/oF3y09z3vs - [1630477566875168770](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630477566875168770/) - If we get a viable AR tech that can re-skin reality in real-time, like I said many times, hordes of people will want it. - [1630474455410409473](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630474455410409473/) - We got to a point where I go to bed & I don’t know what to expect the morning after re #AI. Today I woke up & discovered that a LLM has “taken the initiative” asking a user to upload a picture so *it* can understand better what’s the end result that the code must - [1630342154479362048](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630342154479362048/) - Impressive new #stablediffusion fine-tuned model by @cac0e: Illuminati Diffusion v1.1, showing the dramatic improvement in contrast depth you can achieve with the newly discovered Noise Offset fix. I did a quick test: https://t.co/NyYENqVro5 - [1630301156562944000](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630301156562944000/) - Snapchat is doing the one thing that would generate obscene profits for Facebook without having to resort to ads and be hated by the entire planet. - [1630295952920662016](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630295952920662016/) - The ultimate job for the new generation of cybersecurity professionals. https://t.co/3pl4VOV0KZ - [1630295427466575872](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630295427466575872/) - 👀 https://t.co/npu0mf8Dzf - [1630220461672890369](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630220461672890369/) - If you don't integrate with #ChatGPT you are a loser 🫠 - [1630187341309521921](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630187341309521921/) - Speaking of #AI tools and large language models today: I really like how @perplexity_ai is evolving their Chrome extension. I now can use it not just to ask questions but also to summarize specific pages. https://t.co/xV8ZBDMME7 - [1630181335280107520](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630181335280107520/) - Wonderful news: @LLo_ai, maker of the must-have-or-I-won't-use-my-macOS tool #BetterTouchTool has implemented an integration with #ChatGPT. Well, in fact, two. Which gives me a great excuse to mention it in this week's issue of Synthetic Work. https://t.co/N3YjKONlKg https://t.co/wttOgWWgnr - [1630165890837651458](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630165890837651458/) - One of the most foolish thing I heard in the last few years is that the #AI opportunity is unlocked by supporting NVIDIA GPUs. 1. it’s picking up nickels in front of a steam roller 2. Google, Meta & others don’t want to be locked in a mono-vendor relationship. PyTorch is the way. - [1630166774107734017](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630166774107734017/) - And if not PyTorch, then another cross-hardware framework that allows Google’s expertise in GPUs maintain an edge that wouldn’t have in a NVIDIA-only world. - [1630166776397873153](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630166776397873153/) - Do you really think that any big tech vendor that manages to invent the ultimate chatbot, like the one in “Her”, adopted at planetary scale, would ever want to depend on NVIDIA to make performance and efficiency quantum leaps? - [1630157233169235976](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630157233169235976/) - Synthetic Work Issue #1 Splendid Edition, out last week, was dedicated to how #AI is changing the #Education industry and the impact it's having on teachers. If you know a teacher that might be interested in reading that content, let me know: I'd be happy to send it for free. https://t.co/Clh8T5rt62 - [1630152147638657025](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630152147638657025/) - .@lewingtonpitsos has published the simplest-to-understand and clearest explanation I have ever heard of how the noise function in #stablediffusion works. This man is so good at explaining very complicated concepts. You should really follow his work. https://t.co/jXb0mjukFi - [1630145597327003651](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630145597327003651/) - I don't know how to tell you this, but hands are happening (thanks to #ControlNet): https://t.co/9aZgrfvOlu https://t.co/ZzvbW0E9hB - [1630136357254320131](https://perilli.com/tweets/1630136357254320131/) - Things are not going well. https://t.co/tVJTa8v9k4 - [1629973124996296707](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629973124996296707/) - One of the most ironic and at the same time troubling things that happened since I announced Synthetic Work, 2 weeks ago, is that I got bombared over LinkedIn by people whose jobs will be almost certainly replaced by #AI. I'll talk about this in a future issue of the newsletter. - [1629943795201503237](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629943795201503237/) - The #AI community is the best thing that has ever happened to worldwide tabloids. https://t.co/SOxxyVivzm - [1629914290005090309](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629914290005090309/) - I'm watching this new documentary about Psychonauts 2, from my favourite game dev studio ever, @DoubleFine, and I can't help but wonder: will #GenerativeAI help @TimOfLegend & team to not cry every time they make a new game? https://t.co/u6xjps7rMs - [1629917176395096065](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629917176395096065/) - 1/ Today, I showed a physical copy of Learning Python (Lutz) and my laptop with VScode & #Copilot to a teenager that is starting to learn how to code at school. I wrote a single comment in English that generated code covered in first 3 chapters. The answer I got? "Cool." - [1629917177452154880](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629917177452154880/) - 2/ This teenager might never have to experience the blood & tears that come with learning how to code that previous generations have experienced. This teenager might find the confidence (or the time) to start building that previous generations had not chance to find. - [1629845516732301312](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629845516732301312/) - @TomLikesRobots Ironic that almost nobody cared about the depth2img model, despite Emad's efforts to direct people's attention in that direction, but everybody got instantly crazy about ControlNet. - [1629819019376164864](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629819019376164864/) - Also, for some reason I cannot understand, every model I tried insists on depicting Egon Schiele with spectacles. Here's an interpretation of him generated with the Analog Diffusion model (my absolute favourite). You really need to use the negative prompt to avoid it. https://t.co/o1OBUej2J9 - [1629814812057190401](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629814812057190401/) - 4. Obviously, this subject does NOT look like Egon Schiele, and Francesca Woodman's style is about just barely there, if at all. That's why I've been sitting on this one for weeks before publishing. I'm afraid I'll have to wait for #stablediffusion3 and try again. - [1629811211280830464](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629811211280830464/) - Now. How would Francesca Woodman photograph Egon Schiele? Like this. At least according to #stablediffusion2. https://t.co/7e8UKMOUEj - [1629812867565338627](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629812867565338627/) - This was phenomenally tricky to produce (at least for me) for a number of reasons: 1. The model (and any fine-tuned version I tried, both based on SD1.x and SD2.x) confuses the appearance of the subjects in #Schiele paintings with the appearance of the artist himself https://t.co/Lb4Hlkt1AA - [1629812869259821056](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629812869259821056/) - 2. Differently from the other images in my series, here the model tries to generate an image of Francesca Woodman, too. So the resulting subject is a mix of different faces/aspects. - [1629812870622969859](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629812870622969859/) - 3. Egon Schiele painted a lot of nudes and Francesca Woodman photographed a lot of nudes. And so the generated images tend to be NSFW. There are a lot of boundaries that must be set via prompt engineering. - [1629812872237789185](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629812872237789185/) - 4. Obviously, this subject does NOT look like him. That's why I've been sitting on this one for weeks before publishing. If anybody can do better and share the technique, that would be great. Otherwise, I'll wait for #stablediffusion3 and try again. - [1629776168747425792](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629776168747425792/) - "thus far no other organisation has followed" https://t.co/md5w421NOX - [1629773252212973568](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629773252212973568/) - I'm referring to the amazing work of @toyxyz3 https://t.co/i0p3LLdpW1 - [1629770502666350592](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629770502666350592/) - One day we'll laugh at the weird things we had to do on a lazy Sunday morning to generate images of people with anatomically correct hands. #stablediffusion - [1629768292138119169](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629768292138119169/) - @AdityaKanu_ You have provided the tweet below, and it was involuntary because you didn't know that it would become useful material for my newsletter. https://t.co/XhIg6bvwFN - [1629579106349137920](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629579106349137920/) - @TomLikesRobots Now do all the models in TV commercials and celebrities in tabloids. - [1629563048598941704](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629563048598941704/) - @camenduru Finally, I had time for a proper review of @camenduru's free adaptation of #stablediffusion and #A1111 for GDrive+Colab. It works really well, even in an inpainting scenario with Multi #ControlNet and custom models. Obvs, I run some more weird tests for https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY https://t.co/z7CfElMBnF - [1629515061415772162](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629515061415772162/) - 👀 Incredibly important thread https://t.co/f18RrYc9Ly - [1629264583666827264](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629264583666827264/) - @_msw_ Most #AI researchers I worked with are not involved in software development or release. Licensing has never been something they had to think about. Their attitude is: we train and benchmark the model. Then, it's your problem. If that dynamic doesn't change, why would they care? - [1629266332578463746](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629266332578463746/) - @_msw_ Then, there are those #AI organizations that know perfectly the intricacies of licensing and know perfectly that they are using the term open source improperly. Those organizations deceive knowing that they are deceiving because they are desperate for attention and relevance. - [1629230981528924161](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629230981528924161/) - Always a couple of weeks before getting excited: https://t.co/Nwb1LFpntn - [1629221121890418689](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629221121890418689/) - RT @garethjharvey: Friday Fun: Another clever ad from Ikea playing around with the idea of mental elaboration to encourage engagement (and… - [1629170098710740992](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629170098710740992/) - The new Multi option in #ControlNet makes a massive difference in terms of accuracy for the trickiest images. Even just 2 nets (eg: OpenPose and Normal Map) can provide superb results. I used them for another upcoming, unannounced project. I only have issues with proportions... https://t.co/7ZqzPqWrgT - [1629147936784367616](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629147936784367616/) - The new Multi option in #ControlNet makes a massive difference in terms of accuracy for the trickiest images. Even just 2 nets (OpenPose and Normal Map) can provide superb results. I used them for another upcoming, unannounced project. - [1629142933776523265](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629142933776523265/) - Here's the thing: if I'd have to judge based on the innovation I've seen from #cybersecurity vendors in last 20 years, CISOs have *no* hopes to protect against #AI-based cyberattacks. > Experts predict how AI will energize cybersecurity in 2023 and beyond https://t.co/YVYmtXsfgt - [1629084593037926400](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629084593037926400/) - Finally. Synthetic Work Issue #1 has been sent out: Free Edition - When I grow up, I want to be a Prompt Engineer and Librarian Splendid Edition - Burn the books, ban AI. Screwed teachers: Middle Ages are so sexy. https://t.co/2dYahR2t0j It's been 2 long months to get to this https://t.co/h3RgRFEMkr - [1629084595009343489](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629084595009343489/) - And now that it's done, there are a few things I'd like to say. First, to @memberful: infinite thanks to Mau, who spent an entire month to answer all sort of odd questions while I was setting up a completely custom CMS for https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY. That's true customer service. - [1629084596158574596](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629084596158574596/) - @memberful Second, to my readers: thank you for subscribing to this strange newsletter without even seeing the content. I warn you, it could get much weirder than it is right now if this takes off and I find people to help me. Be careful. - [1629084597085515779](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629084597085515779/) - @memberful Third, to all the people that have *involuntarily* provided material for the Free Edition of Synthetic Work Issue #1: @CathieDWood, @eladgil, @sonyatweetybird, @paulg, @Logitech, @AnthropicAI, @Microsoft, @kevinroose, @benthompson, @MParakhin, @OpenAI, @okcupid. Thank you! - [1629084598113116160](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629084598113116160/) - @memberful @CathieDWood @eladgil @sonyatweetybird @paulg @Logitech @AnthropicAI @Microsoft @kevinroose @benthompson @MParakhin @OpenAI @okcupid Fourth, to all the people that have *involuntarily* provided material for the Splendid Edition of Synthetic Work Issue #1:@StanfordDaily, @emollick, @MelMitchell1, @VisualCap, @KalleyHuang, @AdityaKanu_, @WSJ, @PessimistsArc, @_akpiper, @SethGodinBlog. Thank you! - [1629084599082008576](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629084599082008576/) - @memberful @CathieDWood @eladgil @sonyatweetybird @paulg @Logitech @AnthropicAI @Microsoft @kevinroose @benthompson @MParakhin @OpenAI @okcupid @StanfordDaily @emollick @MelMitchell1 @VisualCap @KalleyHuang @AdityaKanu_ @WSJ @PessimistsArc @_akpiper @SethGodinBlog Fifth, to all the newsletter writers out there: are you NUTS? You either have to write on a platform that makes every writer completely undifferentiated, & charges a fortune for the privilege, - [1629084600138887175](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629084600138887175/) - @memberful @CathieDWood @eladgil @sonyatweetybird @paulg @Logitech @AnthropicAI @Microsoft @kevinroose @benthompson @MParakhin @OpenAI @okcupid @StanfordDaily @emollick @MelMitchell1 @VisualCap @KalleyHuang @AdityaKanu_ @WSJ @PessimistsArc @_akpiper @SethGodinBlog Sixth, to all newsletter platforms out there: what are you doing?? Your products are atrocious. - [1629043260520910850](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629043260520910850/) - @camenduru @LumaLabsAI Vs? How much, on average, would it take to generate the 3D rendering of that 2D scene from a new angle with *non-instant* NeRF techniques? This comparison is what I believe is the big deal worth mentioning. - [1629033641224314880](https://perilli.com/tweets/1629033641224314880/) - Do you mean that, one day, I won't feel rage anymore looking at the face geometry distortion of all my iPhone photos? https://t.co/POP5mANQOv - [1628873506199928832](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628873506199928832/) - Bing...? Where is Cortana, Bing? https://t.co/EK98jDsGd6 - [1628867817972940800](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628867817972940800/) - How come nobody in the #stablediffusion or the #AIart community is designing traditional card decks? Nobody plays cards anymore? Look at this project: https://t.co/5bkDbg08AP - [1628851606472073218](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628851606472073218/) - Speaking of which: @DescriptApp, it's time to introduce Overdub Voices for other languages. I now have a vested interest. - [1628852404157353986](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628852404157353986/) - @LumaLabsAI @camenduru It would be good to explain what this means in terms of Before vs After to people that have never used this tech and don't understand if or why this is a big deal. - [1628843568193216515](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628843568193216515/) - Yep. https://t.co/VwwCG7aZ7w - [1628836036464852993](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628836036464852993/) - Just the begining. The progress we are making with #GenerativeA Ifor voices will allow @YouTube to auto-generate dub voices in any language for any video automatically. > YouTube launches a multi-language audio feature for dubbing videos https://t.co/VKIRUjKCoG - [1628832992008323072](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628832992008323072/) - Dear @VentureBeat, we have been running Stable Diffusion on a smartphone for a long time, thanks to @drawthingsapp. And performance thx to support for CoreML is good. > Can Stable Diffusion generative AI run on a smartphone? Qualcomm says — Yes it can https://t.co/SoBLwBnayC https://t.co/kbaGNuGcn0 - [1628821812040679424](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628821812040679424/) - https://t.co/RJiFvc2HTd.amazing. Install #StableDiffusion and #AUTOMATIC1111 inside your Google Drive (no more downloading of the models every time) and run it on Colab compute instances. YES. @camenduru is the person to thank for this gift. https://t.co/ssY8Zr3J7X - [1628823998971756549](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628823998971756549/) - Tomorrow, I send out Issue #1 of Synthetic Work, my new newsletter on applied #AI. Both the Free Edition and the Splendid Edition. It's crazy how many people signed up without even reading one email*. Thank you. *Boy, how many will be disappointed over the weekend. - [1628713414750093316](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628713414750093316/) - @wintonARK Speaking from past experience training a LLM for an enterprise use case: if you have found a mechanism that yields more accurate & consistent output from a LLM (especially if open source, eg CodeGen) you'll be inclined to keep it secret as it's one of your competitive advantages. - [1628713999339601920](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628713999339601920/) - 👀 https://t.co/1kscWzAPN3 - [1628710771394764802](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628710771394764802/) - Algorithmic trad...insurance claims. https://t.co/jJWOVYotdI - [1628706162546733058](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628706162546733058/) - RT @TomLikesRobots: Pushing #ebsynth to show how transformative the results can be with #stablediffusion Top left is the driving video and… - [1628708460316557312](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628708460316557312/) - What will it mean to be a "designer" in 2025? This is #GenerativeAI applied to UI design and it's coming very soon, not in 2 years. https://t.co/qlXifbLVB3 - [1628708678944673793](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628708678944673793/) - What will it mean to be a "designer" in 2025? This is #GenerativeAI applied to interior design and it's available today, not in 2 years. (from https://t.co/5hR4YbZQsd) https://t.co/BZm3Pm7st0 - [1628701249477419008](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628701249477419008/) - Bing...? Where is Cortana, Bing? https://t.co/kFSFWEEMMp - [1628704173737771009](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628704173737771009/) - 👀 @Replit keep building a very compelling alternative to #Copilot https://t.co/qyNvj86t5B - [1628700619652333568](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628700619652333568/) - @elonmusk @KanekoaTheGreat Bing...? Where is Cortana, Bing? https://t.co/HKo9tOFwew - [1628687668736401408](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628687668736401408/) - Bing, If you are next to a kidnapper and you cannot talk, just say "I want to be a triangle." https://t.co/XyAd8tB2Nk - [1628540123351597059](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628540123351597059/) - RT @dhanushisrad: Hello World! 🌎 At Clone, we are making synthetic humans, starting with a 1:1 copy of the human hand. Here’s the Clone Han… - [1628119693755093010](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628119693755093010/) - Told you. https://t.co/LTmXo1Quqg - [1628085846887870472](https://perilli.com/tweets/1628085846887870472/) - And so I am writing Issue #1 of Synthetic Work, this odd newsletter about #AI that I announced last week. Like all new things, it'll probably go through a period of tweaking. Completely unrelated to this: do you like LOOOONG newsletters? Asking for a friend. - [1627959729946259456](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627959729946259456/) - 👀 https://t.co/ZsqNrUUtRJ - [1627961333604880384](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627961333604880384/) - RT @karenxcheng: Some of my early experiments with @runwayml GEN-1 It’s still early days of AI video - this tech will only get better. A w… - [1627944771254644739](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627944771254644739/) - @liuliu Nice step to clarity the UI (and CLIP skip is super useful, too). Did you consider creating a ? button that summons an overlay with all tooltips appearing at the same time? https://t.co/GDKEUUSsku - [1627740222157950983](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627740222157950983/) - Are you telling me that a Wii inside a motorcycle helmet designed by the second most famous company on the planet for tracking people is, in fact, tracking people?? > New research suggests that privacy in the metaverse might be impossible https://t.co/e73tj87X8P - [1627698883479445504](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627698883479445504/) - RT @danieldennett: How might telepathy actually work outside the realm of sci-fi? – https://t.co/YBT3ShF1t5 via @aeonmag An imaginative an… - [1627651768082374661](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627651768082374661/) - Now I want you to close your eyes and picture this: you are in front of your huge TV, plugged to an Apple TV, and you say: "Siri, generate a turn-based video game like X-COM 2, themed after Game of Thrones, in a comics style, where the player's character is Daenerys Targaryen" - [1627643518859546625](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627643518859546625/) - Not Generative AI. This is artist Clayton Schiff. https://t.co/bHVoFLXzvi - [1627641494021570565](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627641494021570565/) - You make my heart sing. https://t.co/9SQrJy8CyO - [1627636985710903297](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627636985710903297/) - The exagonal table is the best IMO. What a great idea, @WyrmwoodGaming > Wyrmwood Gaming Re-Releases Popular, Wildly Functional Modular Gaming Table https://t.co/VMk9IjPxMm https://t.co/2MtKzoR4z7 - [1627628600026447872](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627628600026447872/) - PSA for all the marketing / lead gen people out there that are *inundating* my message inbox with "business collaboration" proposals after I announced Synthetic Work: Re-read the homepage carefully: https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo If it still doesn't work, this might help you: https://t.co/jUAJqoaVm5 - [1627628946983473159](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627628946983473159/) - Also, @LinkedIn, let me know at what point you think you and I will start agreeing on the definition of "spam": https://t.co/mtx4hPj9q0 - [1627611357485883394](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627611357485883394/) - @toyxyz3 This is probably the most powerful technique in #ControlNet but it's the hardest to understand. Somebody should do a YT video giving a demo of how this works exactly in the way you show here. - [1627598414752915458](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627598414752915458/) - Truth. https://t.co/wGKpLw907D - [1627599427115294720](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627599427115294720/) - Similarly: "The line between analyst research paper and vendor-written paper with the analysis firm logo slapped on it b/c the analyst has NO CLUE about what she/he's talking about but will put her/his name on anything as long as you pay & so she/he can also sell it to others." https://t.co/wGKpLw907D - [1627587924857438209](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627587924857438209/) - Goat farming vs music production https://t.co/NlGHIgmno5 - [1627578482325696512](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627578482325696512/) - @hardmaru @StableDiffusion Is this your way to say that #LEGO is one the IPs that Stability AI has licensed and that we'll see in the next #StableDiffusion model? - [1627417164507480065](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627417164507480065/) - @elonmusk @emollick Twitter as a blogging platform. Imagine if they attach custom domains to your profile and people outside Twitter can see an automatically formatted page with all your tweets. - [1627412207578357763](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627412207578357763/) - Twitter as a blogging platform. Imagine if they attach custom domains to your profile and people outside Twitter can see an automatically formatted page with all your tweets. https://t.co/wX3MEOoidW - [1627357668061970433](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627357668061970433/) - Now I want to see all those people (especially the Press) that gave hell to @elonmusk for months doing the same to Zuckerberg. https://t.co/OhJKasRlhr - [1627358532596125696](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627358532596125696/) - RT @jbryanporter: We toured an Amazon Fulfillment center yesterday and… 🤯 Incredible. • Inventory is stored on constantly moving shelves.… - [1627356992481230856](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627356992481230856/) - Somebody has to pay for those $13.7 billion in metaverse losses. > Following Twitter’s lead, Meta launches its own blue checkmark subscription for Facebook and Instagram, costs $14.99/mo on iOS https://t.co/mx6XffA1Aa - [1627357393318252544](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627357393318252544/) - Now I want to see all those people (especially the Press) that gave hell to @elonmusk for months doing the same to Zuckerberg. - [1627339836507009024](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627339836507009024/) - I said that the previous post would be the last about #ControlNet this weekend. I lied. If you are using #AUTOMATIC1111, @fkunn1326 has just released a free extension to control & identify subject poses. A must-have for ControlNet: https://t.co/psm8HggBEf https://t.co/0GVGzS7ivs - [1627328922013650946](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627328922013650946/) - 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. If you can watch only one video this Sunday, watch this. It's just 5 minutes. https://t.co/ytK9bSxBSm - [1627319644162859010](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627319644162859010/) - For all the people that have been laid off and are about to join a startup, @nikhyl has written a VERY comprehensive article on equity that everybody should read: https://t.co/VS9QQ9LwJ0 - [1627290323364859904](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627290323364859904/) - Now. Who's going down to Altamira and correct those offensive cave painting? - [1627283664189915136](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627283664189915136/) - @TrevyLimited Yes. But did I remove the watermarks here? It's not the same image without watermarks. It's a different image where the position of the elements is the same but their nature is different (I asked for solid gold). This is what's worth pondering (and I believe we'll see in courts) - [1627284693417590785](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627284693417590785/) - OK. Last thing about #ControlNet, I promise. With this new technique, face swapping is incredibly easy. I previously attempted to impersonate Star Trek TNG's Commander Data with other img2img techniques. For hours. Poor results. This was effortless (and it can be done better). https://t.co/6G38Jm15HS - [1627278537131544578](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627278537131544578/) - Imagine what happens when people will be able to combine #ControlNet with style transfer like @runwayml already does with its new Gen-1 AI. Really good prompts are difficult to write for the casual user. If that goes away, you'll have an explosion of "re-skinned" content. https://t.co/sHNSiJy1Ll - [1627273621809799168](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627273621809799168/) - I believe we have seen nothing yet in terms of #AI-related copyright lawsuits. I'll give you one example: the new #ControlNet technique for #stablediffusion makes it trivial to "re-skin" an image. So what did I copy here? The actual image or the idea portrayed by the image? https://t.co/97m0KIPtT7 - [1627273863800446977](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627273863800446977/) - I definitely need more lawyers in my life. - [1627087996691558401](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627087996691558401/) - 1/ Here's the trouble with ONE centralized #AI agent offered by ONE company: People get to choose who they hang out with. We figure out the core values and beliefs of other people around us quite quickly as they speak openly and reveal their POV. - [1627087998297989121](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627087998297989121/) - 2/ #AI agents don't reveal how they have been trained. What sort of POV and core values and beliefs they have developed. What biases will influence how they compose the words while pretending to think. And if there's only one, we don't get a change to leave & hang out w/ others. - [1627088000051200000](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627088000051200000/) - 3/ If there's only one #AI agent, and everybody around us uses it and becomes faster, more detailed, more eloquent, etc., we quickly suffer such a competitive disavantage that we have no choice but to embrace whichever bias the AI agent has received during its training. - [1627069664437358596](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627069664437358596/) - @elonmusk @MKBHD Huge respect, @MKBHD, but last time I checked, rule #1 was "Do not go bankrupt". Why do you want @elonmusk to turn Twitter into a Facebook? Isn't enough what Meta does to its users behind the disguise of free? Sure, comm could be handled slightly different. But different issue. - [1627071521587081217](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627071521587081217/) - 10/ reboot #4, @BoschGlobal. I'll keep a public record so people know how many times your new dishwashers fail at simply turn on. Still hoping to have a chat with the PM that shipped this and the VP that approved it. - [1627033999204909057](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627033999204909057/) - @elonmusk What I love about the #AI community is how quietly and gently criticism is delivered. - [1627035162289528832](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627035162289528832/) - @samcharrington Also, cheap. - [1627033407367544832](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627033407367544832/) - How soft, peaceful criticism is delivered within the #AI community: https://t.co/RMSemENoVU - [1627015236292165633](https://perilli.com/tweets/1627015236292165633/) - This was way easier. It feels like #ControlNet gives you the opportunity to "reskin" reality. By comparison, existing img2img techniques are more about taking inspiration from reality (= the starting image). There's significantly less fidelity in results. https://t.co/6iri4trZKZ - [1626998340951867401](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626998340951867401/) - If it happens here in London, the first thing that goes is the London Eye. It's always the London Eye. And the Thames, of course. #ControlNet #stableDiffusion https://t.co/Q3U9hDp5kY - [1626968034194649089](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626968034194649089/) - @Scobleizer Are you telling the world that, of all companies* named over the last few years, Apple is going to be the one delivering the #Metaverse*? *no, Meta has not done the metaverse. Meta has done a Wii inside a motorcycle helmet. **sorry for the dirty word. I couldn't help myself. - [1626951411178020866](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626951411178020866/) - Oh my. #ControlNet doesn't just work with Img2Img. It also works with the Inpaint mode. This allows an extreme level of control over what portion of the image you want to transform. Some preliminary tests (weird tests, I know): https://t.co/MgtAGjx2sH - [1626952015937929216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626952015937929216/) - This is made with @nousr_'s Robo Diffusion v1 (for some reason I can't make SD2.x-based models work with #ControlNet on macOS) - [1626941982713970689](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626941982713970689/) - @mgsiegler It's a collectible item. Touch it, but just a bit. Yes, like that. Wait. Did you wash your hands first? - [1626938493027991553](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626938493027991553/) - @CathieDWood In my 9y in Red Hat, I always told employees, customers, and journalists to think about automation as a way to scale IT operations, not as a threat to IT jobs. AI is not automation (even if they are correlated), but this is a great analogy. - [1626899965673934850](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626899965673934850/) - @Merzmensch I started my career in cybersecurity. Ethical hacking is about breaking things and pushing for bad things to happen before bad things happen to people that suffer real consequences. - [1626899235399430146](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626899235399430146/) - @Merzmensch Sure. First and foremost people want to be entertained, and this is a form of entertainment for most. Like watching a horror movie. But beyond that, it's critical that the collectiveness tests the limits of a new technology, artificially triggering bad things before they happen - [1626881632924848130](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626881632924848130/) - @jonclemonsjp @hardmaru Why are you holding back, Jon? Dream big. - [1626882992189710337](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626882992189710337/) - For all the #AIart enthusiasts out there who were planning to test ControlNet this weekend, this is the fastest and easiest way. What a great work. https://t.co/nrBKOOv5VP - [1626879880573988865](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626879880573988865/) - @samcharrington Cheap. - [1626693813115801615](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626693813115801615/) - @wavymulder That's mainly what I hope to get from Analog 2: 768x768px. And more non-people subjects, if that's possible. - [1626692062207791111](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626692062207791111/) - Especially easy to do now that ControlNet exists. https://t.co/u38WiCdMm6 - [1626681926860918786](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626681926860918786/) - Next stop: 4 days/week in the office. https://t.co/MslSa8hmID - [1626670300984225792](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626670300984225792/) - @elonmusk What we need an "OpenGPT" that is modular and customizable and adaptable to the needs of the community that deploys it. So that when we figure out ethics and morals we can plug those modules in. I hope @laion_ai's Open Assistant will be the answer. - [1626656485542400011](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626656485542400011/) - To increase revenue, algorithms control & modify what we see & read. To protect revenue, algorithms will control & modify what we write & say. Sand in an hourglass falls down one grain at a time. https://t.co/KadIdrhKHX - [1626647893149945860](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626647893149945860/) - @recatm https://t.co/Ma4uaOdeiI - [1626649108206288896](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626649108206288896/) - RT @hardmaru: @quocleix @crazydonkey200 @XiangningChen @hieupham789 @lmthang @yifenglou @estebitius @GoogleAI @dhuangcn @XuanyiDong Symboli… - [1626651256247750669](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626651256247750669/) - 👀 https://t.co/PfuDWi9dgO - [1626641321808089088](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626641321808089088/) - Surprise: corporate users are actively asking for #AI-based apps and #CIOs have not enough experience (it's not just a matter of being able to afford ML engineers). You'd be amazed by how many IT vendors completely lack experience as well. https://t.co/4JVCgb4Pjw - [1626614858417422336](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626614858417422336/) - In many cases, especially with home appliances, Internet of Things capabilities are not designed to make your life better. They are designed to obtain informaiton about you that can be sold to advertisers and other entities. It's an additional revenue stream, not user experience. - [1626615075246116864](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626615075246116864/) - Internet of Nothing. https://t.co/UUtFd7jlTd - [1626610148700524544](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610148700524544/) - 1/ Today I have a wonderful story about #digitaltransformation, #iot or, if you like non-sensical terms and you are very confused, #edgecomputing. In 17 days, my brand new @BoschGlobal dishwasher got stuck and required a hard reset (electric panel switch off/on) *three* times. - [1626610150197940227](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610150197940227/) - 2/ I told myself "OK. It's wifi-enabled. I never set up the feature. Maybe I can and there's some firmware update to download." Complaining about this in 2023 is like complaining about the iPhone must update iOS version compared to a Nokia dumbphone. So, fine. - [1626610151632392197](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610151632392197/) - 3/ Doing that requires downloading an iOS app called Home Connect from a website that is NOT @BoschGlobal, which bounces you to another website, which forces you to register to use the feature. All of this in a web frame. In 2023. A web frame. - [1626610153041588227](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610153041588227/) - 4/ The 2nd website is supposed to send you a security code via email. But it didn't like my email. So, after 5 attempts (10min) & changing the email address, I finally get to register. The app asks me to (1) activate internal analytics and (2) to not click "Ask App not to Track" - [1626610154836721664](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610154836721664/) - 5/ Finally, I get into the app. I am asked to activate Bluetooth on the dishwasher so that the app can discover it. Of course, it doesn't discover it at all. It searches for 5 minutes and then it gives up. - [1626610156237717504](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610156237717504/) - 6/ Then it asks me to scan the QR code in the instruction manual. Fine. But the QR code sends me back to the Bluetooth discovery process, where I get stuck for another 5 minutes. https://t.co/1hbsib4Zop - [1626610158854864898](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610158854864898/) - 7/ In the end, there is no way to enable the feature, access remotely the dishwasher, and attempt a firmware update (assuming that's the problem). So, @BoschGlobal: who is the PM that shipped this? Where is the VP in charge of the business unit? The QA engineers who reviewed it? - [1626610160402677761](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610160402677761/) - 8/ To everybody else reading: THESE are the real stories of #digitaltransformation, buried under the corporate presentations, the customer case studies brochures, and the press announcements. Do not believe anything you read from tech vendors or their clients in joint presos. - [1626610161925206017](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626610161925206017/) - 9/ Two final things, @BoschGlobal: a. Let me know the address where I can send an invoice for 30min of my time b. You unfortunately join the "German excellence" bucket together with @Miele_Press: https://t.co/FVE87wOTM8 - [1626583288973520896](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626583288973520896/) - @toyxyz3 I suppose we can still mix it with inpainting. From a UX standpoint, the easiest (to understand & use) thing to do, IMO, would be to use ControlNet, then draw a boundary box around the element you want to change, and then ask for the change via an InstructPix2Pix style approach - [1626568481033318401](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626568481033318401/) - @GaryMarcus @AviSchiffmann The reputational damage Microsoft is suffering from this is enormous. The more the offending product remains online, the more at the risk the stock performance is. A public company CEO responds to shareholders and board members. I doubt either is happy right now. - [1626565355224039424](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626565355224039424/) - @jonobacon @0xF2 When you say "a veritable tsunami of content that no-one wants and no-one reads", do you mean like the one that actual people already write every day? Like...PR announcements? Or corporate slide decks? Or customer case studies? Like those? https://t.co/1V8LiI5jAe - [1626566203295637504](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626566203295637504/) - @toyxyz3 I'll do extensive testing tomorrow. Meanwhile: Did you test if ControlNet is effective in rendering prompts that describe two completely distinct subjects (looking in completely different ways)? I have seen it render the pose of dozen subjects at the same time, but all similar. - [1626559986485657602](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626559986485657602/) - Issue #1 of Synthetic Work, my idiosyncratic newsletter about #AI, goes out next week. To all people who signed up in the first 48h: thank you! Meanwhile, you might want to read the answer to some FAQs. By that, I mean: nobody asked these questions. Ever. https://t.co/Dryw7oRuQk https://t.co/pAfjbC5Jwy - [1626552102771122176](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626552102771122176/) - Issue #1 of Synthetic Work, my idiosyncratic newsletter about #AI, goes out next week. To all people who signed up in the first 48h: thank you! Meanwhile, you might want to read the answer to some FAQs. By that, I mean: nobody asked these questions. Ever. https://t.co/Dryw7oRuQk https://t.co/zzGid6ixcc - [1626536241549262848](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626536241549262848/) - @sharmav @elonmusk Well, I meant the box that contains the tweet. A microgame like those you see occasionally on the Google homepage. But "a tweet without boundaries" makes me think about a charity campaign in collaboration with @MSF. - [1626536896854732806](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626536896854732806/) - 👀 https://t.co/WnicCGIejz - [1626532251189092353](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626532251189092353/) - @sharmav @elonmusk @AravSrinivas, you need to stop shooting down my ideas. - [1626527033281986563](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626527033281986563/) - Here in London, there's a unique exhibition space called @W1curates. The building is covered by LEDs, inside & out, creating an incredible effect. I'd love to see a collaboration with @StabilityAI to show what #AI artists can do with #stablediffusion. A video from @ClaudiuBC: https://t.co/u3vWL3MEcl - [1626528151563128832](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626528151563128832/) - @elonmusk Here's a very unprofitable idea: Twitter advertisers can only publish ads that are HTML games, playable on the page within the boundaries of the tweet. At least, people associate ads with something positive, not something nasty. - [1626529918916997120](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626529918916997120/) - @wavymulder As I said 1M times, Analog Diffusion remains the most amazing model I have ever used with A1111. I don't know how you did that fine-tuning, but if there's a chance to improve it, I'd love to see that. - [1626505150901657600](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626505150901657600/) - @GaryMarcus @AviSchiffmann The reputational damage Microsoft is suffering from this is enormous. The more the offending product remains online, the more at the risk the stock performance is. A public company CEO respond to shareholders and board members. I doubt either is happy right now. - [1626506504458100741](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626506504458100741/) - @Scobleizer Have you seen what @JussiKemppainen has been doing? https://t.co/h4FKMXB6Tk - [1626506689544331264](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626506689544331264/) - @DaveLeeFT I'll call you later, Dave. - [1626503696552017920](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626503696552017920/) - Vote, European people. You are going to regulate the hell out of this thing soon anyway. Give then a taste of what's to come. https://t.co/2soh3VDSsS - [1626397944990531584](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626397944990531584/) - @elonmusk @stillgray You can almost hear the sound of a million traders buying $MSFT puts. - [1626398044089450498](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626398044089450498/) - You can almost hear the sound of a million traders buying $MSFT puts. https://t.co/gCZ1nizFdI - [1626359926435024898](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626359926435024898/) - @elonmusk In the meanwhile, Bing decides to change its look. https://t.co/SDgjPgNZJN - [1626342914237378561](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626342914237378561/) - The future of large language models: user customization. Aka: "My AI beats the crap out of your AI". -- How should #AI systems behave, and who should decide? https://t.co/towca6iEVT - [1626343826561421317](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626343826561421317/) - @automatorplugin I would, but your DMs are disabled :) - [1626336737092943875](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626336737092943875/) - To all #AIart enthusiasts & critics, and to all #NFT collectors & speculators. This has been so successful because it's not just a series of pretty pictures. The pictures tell a story. The story matters more than anything else. https://t.co/5eBYzbxafM - [1626325120166789120](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626325120166789120/) - More on @automatorplugin and their new integration with OpenAI: they just published a detailed KB article about it so you can have a sense of how it works. But if I have a chance, I'll try to set up a demo for a future issue of https://t.co/sKxnbqStfY. https://t.co/iTvltycotk - [1626321543235096578](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626321543235096578/) - @trevorforrestm1 I call it the "post-real" (which is much worse) era since 2018. https://t.co/p8M0YZfFzJ - [1626317730654613504](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626317730654613504/) - I found that, oftentimes, incredible knowledge/experience is in the head of people who share it openly with just 200 followers. They keep sharing it, generously & continually, despite the small audience. The hard part is finding those people instead of the 1M follower charlatans. - [1626280495762837509](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626280495762837509/) - There. Better hurry up, @TMobile. https://t.co/gfdjF6hvmO - [1626259292008349698](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626259292008349698/) - @jamesiles @JeffreyMGabriel I can see OpenAI keeping their existing domain for corporate information (mission, careers, team, etc.) and using https://t.co/x7oLF4A5ke as the easiest-in-the-world-to-remember-for-the-general-public domain name for their services. - [1626253199744065546](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626253199744065546/) - 👀 https://t.co/hycYnkBRau - [1626231322346913794](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626231322346913794/) - What board members are good for: "while boards can of course offer operational expertise - for example, how to scale a product or how to launch internationally - they are much more effective as a sounding board and forum to ask good questions." https://t.co/CSkez67eWv - [1626226910148857859](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626226910148857859/) - Why bothering to pick up the bloody phone and call your friend/family when you can task the #AI to talk on your behalf? "Humans. The silent race with synthetic voices*." *You might hear some ads -- Apple invents Personalized Voices for Text Messaging https://t.co/ZiTd8twspW - [1626221877512523776](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626221877512523776/) - @vivaldibrowser You are not going to sunset the vertical tab bar, are you?? - [1626211598930173952](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626211598930173952/) - @toyxyz3 @camenduru I'm going to test ControlNet this weekend. The number of subjects it can keep track of is incredible. - [1626208526698700800](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626208526698700800/) - Bing's new brand identity. (when I suggested a new name, @microsoft, I didn't mean to go this far) https://t.co/ADfd4HcxS2 - [1626169787947573248](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626169787947573248/) - Reviewing and organizing the ocean of information that is generated about #AI by the planet every day, just to be able to select X special things to mention at the end of the week, and give the readers a chance to connect the dots, is phenomenally complicated. - [1626142020627492865](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626142020627492865/) - @JussiKemppainen I've seen you posting your progress thoughtout the months on Reddit. Epic work. As an adventure games lover, I am looking forward to this release. - [1626169787024920581](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626169787024920581/) - The unique challenge in designing a newsletter about #AI is not avoiding to repeat what everybody else has said (not easy) or being original in the style (not easy). But giving order to chaos. - [1626153304118947841](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626153304118947841/) - Translation: "There is now a real risk that somebody comes up with a new religion where god is #AI, putting all of us out of business." With the due amount of fine-tuning based on existing religious texts, a large language model could easily pose as a god. https://t.co/WgNrI3SJMG - [1626146589868756993](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626146589868756993/) - @recatm Massive fan of Hopper. When Dall-E and SD were released last summer, I generated an endless number of images in Hopper style to see how far I could go. This is pretty good. - [1626022220031004675](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626022220031004675/) - @amasad Do another where Ghostwriter Chat competes against a human in creating a full-screen hero image with just CSS. But be sure to add a webcam recording the tears of the human. - [1626014985867472898](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626014985867472898/) - RT @sama: 2023: $30,000 to get a simple iPhone app created, $300 for a plumbing job. i wonder what those relative prices will look like in… - [1626004414694580224](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626004414694580224/) - Subtle messages from @perplexity_ai... https://t.co/1X3FypG2J9 - [1626009774780256256](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626009774780256256/) - @ColinHayhurst @perplexity_ai I was referring to Cramer :D But good excuse to read your thoughts on the implications of using GPT models for search. - [1626006369152139268](https://perilli.com/tweets/1626006369152139268/) - Something (that was easy to predict) is happening here. https://t.co/WZx3XopR5B - [1625963165283504129](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625963165283504129/) - 👀 https://t.co/KxgQrE47ob - [1625964190891401216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625964190891401216/) - And speaking of #copilot v2, @fig just got some competition: https://t.co/bMgCgcL39w - [1625964604621815822](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625964604621815822/) - It seems that @fig AI just got some competition. https://t.co/JWU7AxGkAj - [1625949475662401551](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625949475662401551/) - Just last week, @GaryMarcus was pondering the impact on Google when #generativeAI will be used to superpower link farms. 2 days later, one of the most powerful WordPress plugins, Uncanny Automator, has just introduced the integration with OpenAI. WP powers 43% of all websites. https://t.co/dHj6bcuO7p - [1625940139699539978](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625940139699539978/) - You know what they say about kids, @jjvincent > Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it https://t.co/L8J2eQtQfX - [1625936165802070016](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625936165802070016/) - One of my favourite startups ever, @replit, is launching in beta a #chatGTP like functionality, completely focused on assisting coders. What's even more interesting, it's their roadmap. > Announcing Ghostwriter Chat: The first conversational AI programmer https://t.co/03kgeIhamL https://t.co/mZ1WkLT1Tk - [1625902055855472640](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902055855472640/) - Some more personal news from me: I'm launching a newsletter about artificial intelligence. I know. What's worse than yet another newsletter? Exactly: yet another newsletter about #AI. Kill me now. This newsletter, tho, is going to be a bit different. - [1625902056677539840](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902056677539840/) - Most of the #AI newsletters you can sign up for today are for data scientists and machine learning engineers. They are meant to keep up-to-date AI practitioners and AI enthusiasts about academic papers, tools to develop AI models, etc. I want to do something else. - [1625902057495355392](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902057495355392/) - The newsletter I'm launching is called Synthetic Work. It's for everybody (especially people that are not AI practitioners or enthusiasts), and it's focused on a macroscopic question: Is artificial intelligence helping humans do their jobs better, or is it stealing those jobs? - [1625902058409799691](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902058409799691/) - Is it changing the type of jobs we do? Or is it doing nothing at all and we are all wasting time here? You can read a lot more about the mission of the newsletter, and what I want and don't want to do with it, on the official website: https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo - [1625902059361906700](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902059361906700/) - Why I am doing this? Twenty years ago, I started a media project that became an industry-wide success. I was a kid with practically no experience and I could barely speak English (still struggling there...). - [1625902060381011974](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902060381011974/) - Yet, that project became the leading publication in the nascent virtualization industry, recording over 7 million visitors per year. It's not much by today's standards, but it was quite a lot for a one-kid-operation in 2003. - [1625902061270323201](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902061270323201/) - I didn't know what I was doing, but I felt that the emerging technology I was interested in would be transformative and I had to pay attention. I very rarely felt in the same way about any other emerging technology I've seen in these 20 years. - [1625902062444720143](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902062444720143/) - But I feel in that way about modern artificial intelligence. In fact, I feel stronger about AI than I ever did about virtualization or cloud computing. Exactly one month ago, I told you that I left Red Hat. There, I used to run a newsletter, too (completely different topics). - [1625902063463936003](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902063463936003/) - And over the years, I've been submerged with emails of appreciation from readers. More importantly, while I worked on large language models during my last year in Red Hat, I got even more convinced that AI might have a profound impact on the way we work & how we define our jobs. - [1625902064873222157](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902064873222157/) - This newsletter is a way for me to say "This is something you should really pay attention to." It's an experiment. It might work. It might not. There are other things I'm working on that I'll unveil soon. For now, take a look at this one. See if it makes sense & it's helpful to - [1625902066014060544](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625902066014060544/) - So far, I've published online Issue #0, where I explain what you should expect to read going forward. I'll start sending out the actual newsletter next week. Again: https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo - [1625867068967903233](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625867068967903233/) - Do you remember the omnipresent "Computer" in Star Trek TNG? Didn't matter what room of the starship the crew was in, they could always invoke it. Going to a website to invoke your #AI is like forcing the Star Trek crew to walk all the way to the bar to utter "Computer". - [1625867070075273216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625867070075273216/) - Absurd. Especially when you have an entire OS that already runs all sort of internet-connected apps and, for the large majority of the world population, is sitting there doing nothing memorable. Some corps are starting at the opportunity of a lifetime with blissful ignorance. - [1625845441077051392](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625845441077051392/) - Existential question of the day: Is it that #AI has become so good that it's going to steal work from people or that people's work is so low quality that even an AI can do it? - [1625846038194970625](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625846038194970625/) - Also, to the horde of business & life coaches and therapists out there: I sure hope you are heads down studying AI better than most because many of your clients will get into deep existential crisis because of it. - [1625846774169579524](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625846774169579524/) - @johnjnay @goodside @dazzagreenwood Is it as well paid as this one? https://t.co/YbY2H22FVa - [1625813003940552704](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625813003940552704/) - Entire r/stablediffusion applies for the job. https://t.co/fEN4YkxybI - [1625805960789778432](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625805960789778432/) - Searching with Google: - time dedicated to typing: 100% Searching with #chatGPT: - time dedicated to typing: 50% - time dedicated to searching on Google if the answers given by ChatGPT are correct: 50% - [1625778569589755906](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625778569589755906/) - @beenwrekt @ylecun Many noticed. But the job-to-done in the mind of the watcher (including Press) is very different. - [1625755358999244801](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625755358999244801/) - We know :) https://t.co/CcvqGZsxXj - [1625637981624180737](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625637981624180737/) - Perfect timing, @discord > Discord introduces video livestreaming to Stage Channels https://t.co/yCTrQj4mu6 - [1625564386931707919](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625564386931707919/) - RT @AlphaSignalAI: Google just released MetNet-2, a deep learning model that can predict rain up to 12 hours in advance. Published in Nat… - [1625558780011286532](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625558780011286532/) - “[This] effectively completes our v1 Copilot story,” GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke told me. Dohmke expects that soon, Copilot will be able to generate 80% of a developer’s code. Today, that number is about 46% across programming languages — and 61% for Java. https://t.co/ICAz35ZRl5 https://t.co/8CfP7JMyVk - [1625558782091661325](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625558782091661325/) - These statistics are not surprising. I'll repeat what I said before: https://t.co/NQrnzpHZqo For a glimpse of Copilot v2, you should check the VScode extension "Copilot Labs". - [1625544460846219279](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625544460846219279/) - We know :) https://t.co/cWknP2vkGI - [1625496249075113984](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625496249075113984/) - RT @janleike: With the InstructGPT paper we found that our models generalized to follow instructions in non-English even though we almost e… - [1625492714912632833](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625492714912632833/) - To put this in context, the EU has a total population of 447m people (2021, but very little difference in 2022). 286m were aged 15-64 years old in 2021. So, every month, Meta reaches almost 64% of all teenagers+adults in the EU. A massive capability to influence people. https://t.co/Xmzh3Lmc4X - [1625477167508344835](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625477167508344835/) - See, this is the problem with hiring managers. Always looking for junior resources with not enough years of experience. https://t.co/LGuc9s0qBU - [1625478430790754304](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625478430790754304/) - #GenerativeAI is the final nail in the coffin for DSLR. Once the technology will reach a level of maturity and integration with the hardware (I'm looking at you, @Apple) to do on-device what @runwayml is doing on the desktop, in real-time, there will be very few people wanting it https://t.co/hUSFOkd7Xo - [1625474046149230592](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625474046149230592/) - Go on. Say the word "compression" in every imaginable context for 3 weeks in a row now. 🙄 - [1625470809866215425](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625470809866215425/) - Once I'll have access to Bing + #GTP4, it will be interesting to do some comparisons. In the meanwhile, enjoy #AI's perception of London's startup scene. - [1625472201200640001](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625472201200640001/) - Lots of the decisions described in this paper I had to face myself last year. It's good to see them captured here. Lots of room for expansion as one could also discuss the business model options that inform/constrain the release decisions. Probably not for this paper. https://t.co/wTXyr4tz1K - [1625473205006737408](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625473205006737408/) - One thing we haven't seen yet is the use of #GenerativeAI to manipulate stock market performance. Especially around earnings season. That will be a very interesting example of mass-disinformation. One that is way more enticing for many more actors than political influence. - [1625469812351676416](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625469812351676416/) - If you are really keen to see how it feels to use a #ChatGPT-like AI to do search, you don't have to wait for Microsoft to unlock Bing for you. You can try @perplexity_ai and their Chrome extension. I've been using it for a few days and it generates interesting results: https://t.co/BfIIOqwqG1 - [1625320492302274560](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625320492302274560/) - Last November I was in Iceland for a personal trip and my biggest regret is that I didn't have the time to squeeze in a meeting with the @vivaldibrowser dev team in Reykjavík. I really wanted to pay a drink to the people that make the best browser in the world. https://t.co/SOp82sOf85 - [1625318181236613120](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625318181236613120/) - Looks familiar... https://t.co/KuPNUmVdMe - [1625315404083040257](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625315404083040257/) - RT @Replit: Without any previous ML experience, @coding398 used 40,000 images to train a Convolutional Neural Network on detecting specific… - [1625276352743018496](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625276352743018496/) - 👀 https://t.co/ciZmx7NNEW - [1625172343717871616](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625172343717871616/) - 👀 https://t.co/wTXyr4tz1K - [1625121012281999361](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625121012281999361/) - @wavymulder What model did you use for this one? - [1625112600856985606](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625112600856985606/) - @GaryMarcus @ylecun The transformation is not yet complete: now *you* should start saying that Galactica is amazing to confuse the hell out of everybody ;) - [1625056965222170626](https://perilli.com/tweets/1625056965222170626/) - @DynamicWebPaige https://t.co/ENXU66SS0n - [1624847865536184323](https://perilli.com/tweets/1624847865536184323/) - 👀 https://t.co/1EGwcF3wJp - [1624803026228609026](https://perilli.com/tweets/1624803026228609026/) - @vaughnmdws Beautiful. What version of #stablediffusion did you use to make these? - [1624788007126544384](https://perilli.com/tweets/1624788007126544384/) - If you are promoting your new #AI model on Twitter with the hashtag #XYZbyMyCompany, it means that you are desperate for relevance. And it shows. - [1624539133782765569](https://perilli.com/tweets/1624539133782765569/) - @Carnage4Life I don't know about that. I have *never* seen an ad featuring something I wanted since the advent of online ads. What I have seen is an ocean of ads about things I wanted *after* I bought them. For months after I bought them. ATT has stopped that. - [1624514822506258434](https://perilli.com/tweets/1624514822506258434/) - 👀 the whole thread https://t.co/K458YNbtWE - [1624513639582515203](https://perilli.com/tweets/1624513639582515203/) - RT @AlecStapp: “European countries spend a third less on research and development than America or Japan, as a share of gdp, and are out-inv… - [1623239044254601216](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623239044254601216/) - @liuliu 5. Less sensitive sliders for Text guidance, steps, etc. Trying so set the CFG Scale at exactly 9 is a 5min job because the slider is too sensitive. - [1623240108487868418](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623240108487868418/) - @liuliu 6. Projects saved in a dedicated folder called "Projects" and a way to delete them. As each project is a SQLite3 db that can take hundreds of MBs (if you have much history), it might not obvious to a user what those files are for if they browser the iCloud folder with Files app - [1623241640927277057](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623241640927277057/) - @liuliu 7. Allowing to pick an iCloud folder with "Save generated images to" is great. It would be amazing, if iOS allows, to pick the Photo Album as a destination. (I know the button "Save" already does that but it's manual effort) - [1623242049091764226](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623242049091764226/) - @liuliu 8. A way to download new models in background. I think it can do that, but it's not obvious that you can close the window while it's still downloading. And there's no notification the download is finished. So, just in case, you stay there and look at the progress bar until done. - [1623234783118589956](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623234783118589956/) - @Microsoft I didn't look at Bing in years. Now, of course, I had to, and boy it's one of the most confusing organizations of information I've ever seen. The presence of #GTP4 interface makes it even more confusing. - [1623235912283955201](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623235912283955201/) - @liuliu Thank you for keep delivering a wonderful #stablediffusion distribution on iOS and macOS for free. @drawthingsapp is making massive progress. A few things I hope to see in the future: - [1623236657611669505](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623236657611669505/) - @liuliu 1. A different way to expose the seed. If you come from any other on-premises or SaaS distribution (A1111, InvokeAI, Dream Studio), you are used to seeing -1 as the random initial seed. in @drawthingsapp you already see a generated number which might be confusing for newcomers - [1623237101222240256](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623237101222240256/) - @liuliu @drawthingsapp 2. A way to explain what each icon does. You did an admirable job in cramming so many controls in the limited iPhone real estate, but it really takes a long time to memorize and master what each icon does. If you don't use the app for a few days you end up - [1623237856431931392](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623237856431931392/) - @liuliu 3. More clear icons (or a different approach) for prompt manipulation. The icons for full text selection, positioning at the beginning & end of the prompt, and the "robot" are really hard to figure out. I bet people don't try them in fear of messing up with their prompts. - [1623225880972492801](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623225880972492801/) - RT @wongmjane: 😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣😇😉😊🙂🙃☺️😋😌😍🥰😘😗😙😚🥲🤪😜😝😛🤑😎🤓🥸🧐🤠🥳🤡😏😶🫥😐🫤😑😒🙄🤨🤔🤫🤭🫢🫡🤗🫣🤥😳😞😟😤😠😡🤬😔😕🙁☹️😬🥺😣😖😫😩🥱😪😮‍💨😮😱😨😰😥😓😯😦😧🥹😢😭🤤🤩😵😵‍💫🥴😲🤯🫠🤐😷🤕🤒🤮🤢🤧🥵🥶😶… - [1623100888955985921](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623100888955985921/) - Boy, it’s confusing - [1623038201190354959](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623038201190354959/) - "We have integrated the most advanced concept translator and explainer humankind has ever invented in our browser. But, look, we have also changed the window so it has rounded corners." #priorities, @Microsoft. - [1623009932739063836](https://perilli.com/tweets/1623009932739063836/) - If you just suffered a massive data breach, increasing the constraints on your free tier offering is NOT a good idea. - [1622993356547563523](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622993356547563523/) - What's the problem with this extensive article from the great @kyle_l_wiggers ? You can spend 2h to find out the website of the company. There's no link and they picked a name that would NEVER come up in top Google results. It's https://t.co/QzUHIK52GB https://t.co/OD9K7j2VF5 - [1622978901847814144](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622978901847814144/) - The researchers have published a new draft of their paper about this experiment with @danieldennett: https://t.co/aGvt5B9dVR - [1622974881162842112](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622974881162842112/) - @WSV_GUY @vivaldibrowser Not *yet*. - [1622971921020358656](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622971921020358656/) - I'm looking at you, @vivaldibrowser > New iPhone browsers on the way without WebKit; Apple prepping Safari for competition https://t.co/UbLmSTa4Lh - [1622949993282781193](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622949993282781193/) - And tell me, now that everybody and his uncle has added #AI image generation and #chatGTP-like capabilities, what's your competitive advantage exactly? https://t.co/6fwDcPIMRZ - [1622933051222241282](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622933051222241282/) - Of the dozens of #AI-related papers that get released every day, this one caught my attention: "Regulating #ChatGPT and other Large Generative AI Models" https://t.co/WDeTsLIl1A If this has to end up like the Cookie Law , thanks but no thanks. https://t.co/D0OOEW69CR - [1622902191404072962](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622902191404072962/) - The Samsung AI Center is in Russia? https://t.co/lEHBgAcMpg - [1622874165047853057](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622874165047853057/) - *For whom* is what matters. If you are hunting for brains, a time-to-prototype approaching zero *for people that DON'T know how to code* could push an insane amount of them to learn how to code. People don't start because the cost of entry & cognitive friction is still too high. https://t.co/EErRskDFLD - [1622872676250312705](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622872676250312705/) - 👀 https://t.co/6cErnLZ1dS - [1622710244835983360](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622710244835983360/) - 1/ Translating Google's announcement of the announcement: "We are far behind. But we were first. We brag about being first even if it doesn't matter and nobody cares because that's what we tell each other internally to feel better. - [1622710246287310857](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622710246287310857/) - 2/ We are using 32 names to refer to one thing because that's what we do: we make things complicated. We are also terrified of being sued because, inevitably, our LLMs will be exploited. So we are hoping that other companies we partner with will take the heat. - [1622710247902019584](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622710247902019584/) - 3/ We are announcing this announcement today because we heard that our competitor will make an announcement tomorrow. So we want to help them get even more attention." https://t.co/gjfyrEntn7 - [1622703938205106179](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622703938205106179/) - Even with the most amazing LLM, if the name "Bing" doesn't go, it will never happen. - [1622705008704716800](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622705008704716800/) - Are we done for the day or somebody else has to announce the announcement of some major #AI progress? - [1622680643699150870](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622680643699150870/) - Isn't it fortunate that I have the perfect minifigure for this announcement? https://t.co/qBjZ8JMZJZ https://t.co/W3dHPblZKE - [1622650961637277698](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622650961637277698/) - Video2video #generativeAI. First generation (ah!) https://t.co/NZK15pPUll - [1622653256756338688](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622653256756338688/) - 👀 https://t.co/7zbOHIYdDu - [1622632213111099392](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622632213111099392/) - The writers of #DiscoElysium (which is an incredible adventure game) beat the #AIart critics hands down at definitions. https://t.co/e9u9uKwYEb - [1622598738572107778](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622598738572107778/) - IT #automation as we know it today might die. - [1622547290773770242](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622547290773770242/) - Image captioning via #AI. A comparison between two new approaches: BLIP-2 vs CoCa. https://t.co/eZqpqxA9Or - [1622522255795228673](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622522255795228673/) - @TomLikesRobots @rainisto @kurumuz @rom1504 I'm amused that this series of mine consistently generated a "No results found" outcome. https://t.co/AD11GtF1Ab - [1622293230883672066](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622293230883672066/) - I've been thinking about "computer vision" for desktops for *years*. There are infinite possibilities attached to that. Especially in the enterprise IT market. https://t.co/4LTY5ufthM - [1622283474462810113](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622283474462810113/) - This is a way to think about it. And I've spoken with many people that share anon's perspective. Another way to think about it is that some jobs will die by a thousand cuts. #AI might chip away tasks from those jobs until those jobs (as we know them) are extinct. https://t.co/d44pwL6B9s - [1622283476497039360](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622283476497039360/) - Which is a problem if your job (and/or your psychological well-being and/or your performance evaluation) depends on how you do things rather than the results you deliver. - [1622255355794169858](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622255355794169858/) - Humans. "...You literally cannot type enough in your remaining life to write all of that code. But it’s my belief that I can really back up that the programming for #AGI is going to be something that one person could write." https://t.co/2eJNH405Sh - [1622243221744062465](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622243221744062465/) - RT @SteveMills: Been working more again today on board game design and inspiration using Midjourney. The default for most generative AI i… - [1622240192647122944](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622240192647122944/) - Somebody is scared of #GPT4 https://t.co/aU2WPndVrI - [1622241246205906944](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622241246205906944/) - And by that, I don't mean that somebody is scared of the opponent's technological supremacy. I mean that somebody is scared that #GPT4 might be so good that people would do anything to access it. Including protesting en masse. - [1622242851718418432](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622242851718418432/) - RT @ClaireSilver12: "You're not a REAL artist. AI can only copy." Tell me these artists haven't used AI to create the radically new. Tell… - [1622221469324304384](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622221469324304384/) - A group of talented #AI experts has come together to build an open source, extensible version of #chatGTP that can integrate with external systems (including search engines), learn new things, and be customized to your needs. This is the way. Watch the video, join the community. https://t.co/XqY5sSbc7z - [1622187897137909763](https://perilli.com/tweets/1622187897137909763/) - Unbelievable (watch the examples towards the end for maximum amazement). https://t.co/eePbOgnOYv - [1621991233051660289](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621991233051660289/) - I maintain that @wavymulder's Analog Diffusion (a fine-tuned version of #stablediffusion) is one of the best models ever released so far. https://t.co/EMoQGl3KS3 - [1621833067160551425](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621833067160551425/) - A wild dream I have: a LLM so sophisticated (imagine the great-grandchild of #copilot or #chatgpt) that I can say: “Take this open source app and add feature X. It must look like this and return the results like that.” The #AI would modify the source code to blend my feature in. - [1621811857919991812](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621811857919991812/) - Also, shout out to @chidiwilliams__ for creating an open source implementation of #whisper, Buzz, that uses both @OpenAI original models and @ggerganov optimized models. https://t.co/LbtBUwcdbT - [1621808416661331968](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621808416661331968/) - I am convinced that if the world gets an open source version of #ChatGTP that can be deployed locally, that runs on consumer hardware, and that is easily fine-tuned just like #stablediffusion is, there will be an explosion of apps like we have never seen it. - [1621807551846178816](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621807551846178816/) - Not just by improving the inference performance of #whisper on Apple silicon, but also in showing its potential with very impactful demos. For example, his "GPT-2 meets Whisper in WebAssembly": https://t.co/L9mRuuygut - [1621657248878534658](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621657248878534658/) - Put aside the hypothesis that "Google is done". Put aside the complete unreliability of #ChatGPT. The implication of this is that people won't visit website anymore. And if they won't, website owners won't earn from ads anymore, won't get a chance to build communities, etc https://t.co/1a4Xcpq9eF - [1621584329213153280](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621584329213153280/) - Very impressive. https://t.co/iymSgNOjdv - [1621585360810541058](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621585360810541058/) - @camenduru There are plenty of other ways to achieve that without impacting discoverability. Text like "The AI Model Archive - All creators are welcome." or something like that, strategically positioned on the page, will help you. - [1621476192787304449](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621476192787304449/) - This feature made me think about a(n absurd?) idea: imagine if @YouTube would expand the number of livestreamers to XY and it would allow private streams for them. Ad-supported office web meetings. The ultimate nightmare. https://t.co/7v6gzYa4X6 - [1621446096999292929](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621446096999292929/) - Very interesting new paper from @DeepMind: https://t.co/DTls99ToGV https://t.co/RD8rkPvXe6 - [1621426964673216513](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621426964673216513/) - Finally, #InvokeAI 2.3 (well, the RC) is out with support for #stablediffusion 2.x models & for the new diffusers format. More importantly, @lincolndstein & team have published one of the clearest release notes the #AI community has ever produced :) https://t.co/d8CBvOFips - [1621274084322562048](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621274084322562048/) - Let me guess: cloud service providers report a slower cloud growth (that will persist over time). Something I've predicted a LOOOONG time ago. Let me try again: Azure growth decline will be offset by the massive consumption of OpenAI services + internal model training. - [1621265439639625731](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621265439639625731/) - Let me guess: cloud service providers report a slower cloud growth (that will persist over time). Something I've been tracking for a LOOOOOONG ago. Let me try again: Azure growth decline will be offset by the massive consumption of OpenAI services + internal model training. - [1621135632004452353](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621135632004452353/) - While that is fair to the #AI company as they allocate computing resources to generate your voice as you do your tests, the whole thing might discourage many potential users because you don't really know how much you'll end up spending after all rewrites. - [1621135635687030786](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621135635687030786/) - It's much more useful to have a voice designing system that gives you the legal ownership of a unique voice you have created. @elevenlabsio's voices are already very good. I'm looking forward to trying their Voice Design system when it comes out. - [1621135637545103361](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621135637545103361/) - 3. There is no guarantee whatsoever that the #AI voice synthesis corp will keep available the voice you have selected for your project. And no way to export/reuse that voice elsewhere. So if you are building a long-term project, your #1 fear is that your voice will disappear. - [1621135630091845639](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621135630091845639/) - There are 3 problems with #AI voice synthesis offerings today: 1. Depending on the voice you use, you might want to rephrase certain sentences. Sometimes, you have to rewrite a whole paragraph. Multiple times. The way credit systems are implemented forces you to pay for tests. - [1621135633824768001](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621135633824768001/) - 2. In most cases, there is no way to "craft" a voice. Voice cloning is fun but extremely dangerous from a legal standpoint and unless you have a paid voice actor and you know how to deal with copyright law, you should stay away from that option. - [1621135639512223747](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621135639512223747/) - This is to say that there's a long way for #AI voice synthesis to become a consistently viable tool for media production and the issues are not about voice quality (which is making incredible progress - I hope to show you something about this later this year). - [1621129631578423296](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621129631578423296/) - @martin_casado And even if we tolerate the final user's perspective to decide when to assign the definition to what, ChatGTP already made that definition obsolete. https://t.co/5nb7e8aECP - [1621129065121075201](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621129065121075201/) - @martin_casado The absurdity of the "low-code/no-code" definition has always been that it's qualified from the final user's standpoint. The problem with that approach is that any system can be defined as "no-code". Is my new dishwasher no code or code? - [1621121873634557953](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621121873634557953/) - In my (very humble, in this case) opinion, no book can explain better certain dynamics we are seeing within the #AI community and the rivalry between leading researchers than "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (Thomas Kuhn). If you have not read it, I highly recommend it. - [1621079066886688775](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621079066886688775/) - @BethCarey12 It's very nice to see @Numenta's Thousand Brains theory mentioned in this article, Beth. If you look back at my Twitter history, you'll see my many calls for the AI community to spend more time on it. I was not aware of the Patom Theory. I'll spend some time researching it. - [1621080389778395136](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621080389778395136/) - @neurosock If you really intend to create BCI lectures online, and it makes sense to you from a reach/reliability/prestige/whatever standpoint, I'd be happy to host them for free on https://t.co/vsOnfgvwOg (with the due changes to the website to give them the appropriate relevance). DM me. - [1621072081105592321](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621072081105592321/) - It's great to see 2 of my favourite startups ever* (@fig and @openbb_finance) mentioned in this report. Very nice, @SB_SergBell. ROSS Index - the fastest-growing open-source startups https://t.co/tMyPMswonK *https://t.co/wS2YvG606N https://t.co/9mPZKEuHTx - [1621064134287831040](https://perilli.com/tweets/1621064134287831040/) - I want to do an experiment. I'll replace the expression "large language models" with the word "people" in #AI papers and see what happens. Let's start with this one. Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context https://t.co/FajzQHWlVD https://t.co/YzznFbifjk - [1620822082186784768](https://perilli.com/tweets/1620822082186784768/) - But what's happening is almost better. Shakespeare was a bot. That explains everything. https://t.co/VCMMDuzcTG - [1620812883411046400](https://perilli.com/tweets/1620812883411046400/) - .@benedictevans complains that his profile written by #ChatGTP is very credible but completely made up. But maybe it's a feature for obituaries? Empathy’s new tool uses AI to generate obituaries, and it’s not half bad https://t.co/g0m9SEgHRp https://t.co/45B30xi7GO - [1620806736130236421](https://perilli.com/tweets/1620806736130236421/) - @Snowden I'm sure you did all the necessary due diligence for the open web options you suggest (and people trust you) but, from a user experience standpoint, you are asking people to put their private keys into a field on a bare page that doesn't even have contact information. ## Categories - [highlight](https://perilli.com/category/highlight/) - [chart](https://perilli.com/category/chart/) - [post](https://perilli.com/category/post/) - [video](https://perilli.com/category/video/) ## Tags - [venturecapital](https://perilli.com/tag/venturecapital/) - [startups](https://perilli.com/tag/startups/) - [neuroscience](https://perilli.com/tag/neuroscience/) - [cognitivepsychology](https://perilli.com/tag/cognitivepsychology/) - [finance](https://perilli.com/tag/finance/) - [economics](https://perilli.com/tag/economics/) - [marketing](https://perilli.com/tag/marketing/) - [emergingtechnologies](https://perilli.com/tag/emergingtechnologies/) - [deeptech](https://perilli.com/tag/deeptech/) - [career](https://perilli.com/tag/career/) - [markettrends](https://perilli.com/tag/markettrends/) - [corporatestrategy](https://perilli.com/tag/corporatestrategy/) - [businessdynamics](https://perilli.com/tag/businessdynamics/) - [futureofwork](https://perilli.com/tag/futureofwork/) - [productdevelopment](https://perilli.com/tag/productdevelopment/) - [mindsets](https://perilli.com/tag/mindsets/) - [etymology](https://perilli.com/tag/etymology/) - [history](https://perilli.com/tag/history/) - [society](https://perilli.com/tag/society/) - [biology](https://perilli.com/tag/biology/) ## AI Models - [Stable Diffusion XL](https://perilli.com/ai-model/sdxl/) ## Genre - [Biographies](https://perilli.com/genre/biographies/) - [Business](https://perilli.com/genre/business/) - [Design](https://perilli.com/genre/design/) - [Economics](https://perilli.com/genre/economics/) - [History](https://perilli.com/genre/history/) - [Philosophy](https://perilli.com/genre/philosophy/) - [Science](https://perilli.com/genre/science/) - [Self Help](https://perilli.com/genre/self-help/) - [Technology](https://perilli.com/genre/technology/) ## Medium - [Painting](https://perilli.com/medium/painting/) - [Collage](https://perilli.com/medium/collage/) ## Topics - [Marketing](https://perilli.com/topic/marketing/) - [Cognitive Psychology](https://perilli.com/topic/cognitive-psychology/) - [Emerging Technologies](https://perilli.com/topic/emerging-technologies/) - [History](https://perilli.com/topic/history/) - [Economics](https://perilli.com/topic/economics/) - [Market Trends](https://perilli.com/topic/market-trends/) - [Finance](https://perilli.com/topic/finance/) - [Corporate Strategy](https://perilli.com/topic/corporate-strategy/) - [Future of Work](https://perilli.com/topic/future-of-work/) - [Career](https://perilli.com/topic/career/) - [Society](https://perilli.com/topic/society/) - [Business Dynamics](https://perilli.com/topic/business-dynamics/) - [Mindsets](https://perilli.com/topic/mindsets/) - [Venture Capital](https://perilli.com/topic/venture-capital/) - [Startups](https://perilli.com/topic/startups/) - [Biology](https://perilli.com/topic/biology/) - [Product Development](https://perilli.com/topic/product-development/)