“Five years ago, there were approximately 200,000 professional taxi and limo drivers in the U.S. Today, there are more than 10 times that number of people who drive for Uber alone (approximately 3.5 million in the U.S.)”

https://t.co/dguuTU0IK0

“Q: Do you feel that there are wider dangers in using data and AI to augment or replace human judgment?
A: Once it’s demonstrably true that you can have an #AI that has far better business judgment, say, what will that do to human leadership?”
https://t.co/cNgWnKnH71

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eventually, complicated systems lose.

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

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

@drawthingsapp 2048×2048 resolution on iPhone?