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Bonfire of the Vanities
I encourage you to please read the following Substack post ahead of the Fed's move on interest rates on the 18th. While in Japan for partner meetings the first ten days of August, I experienced in realtime the collapse of the yen carry trade and slide of the Nikkei. In very plain English, this is a precursor to an imminent repricing of global risk that has been building since last year. This open letter was written first for family and friends based on my experience in foreign markets as an international tax attorney long before tech and entertainment. I have no lock on wisdom, nor a crystal ball, but the facts are alarming and worthy of 15 minutes of your time. #Economics #debt #recession #deflation #capital
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Scott Broock retweeted
The mind of a true scientist or philosopher is born when a child despairs deeply enough to trust their ideas more than their feelings. This decision is often final. In a sane mind, this decision is always temporary and conditional: the purpose of thinking is to repair perception.
We had the pleasure of hosting the @playperidot team at our AI Salon last month in SF to explore “Animated Intelligence.” It’s exciting to see this on the AVP.
Today we’re launching the joy and delight of Hello, Dot – our mixed-reality @PlayPeridot experience – to @Apple Vision Pro. 👇🏽
You can download it now: apps.apple.com/us/app/hello-…
This is a beautiful and immersive experience where you can get hands-on with your Dot and it feels even more real thanks to the incredible visual fidelity of the Apple Vision Pro.
This also marks our commitment to building and iterating across all major MR headset and AR glasses platforms including @Apple Vision Pro, @Meta Quest, and @Snap Spectacles. It’s been exciting to see the evolution of this industry throughout 2024 and I’m excited for what more we can bring to life in 2025.
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Scott Broock retweeted
All of the #VisionHack projects are now available on our website: visionoshackathon.com/
Some have TestFlights you can try!
Scott Broock retweeted
So this blew up. Sounds like people really want this!
You know what's crazy?! One of the #VisionHack projects is exactly this (although not at the system level, of course).
Nerds Savior by @GD_Geek and team 3Nerds made this incredible prototype that lets visionOS and iOS users view a 3D model at the same time. And their video is hilarious!
Incredible to discover their project today after my post from yesterday!
Dear Apple, we need an iPhone app that lets you view what someone in an AVP is experiencing.
Not screen mirroring but an AR experience like this from Spectacles. visionOS 3?
credit to @hmltn: uploadvr.com/snap-spectacles…
Scott Broock retweeted
Holy cow!🤯 Creating 3D Spatial Video from 2D sources, just got super easy (if you’re on a Mac).
@owl3dofficial just released a beta of their AI Depth-map 2D-3D software for Mac & it supports Spatial Video🔥
I converted this Sora clip & it’s incredible!
Do this to ANY video!
Hey Metaverse, 1994 called. They want their Cyberspace back. Metaverse journos are blindly steering through the rearview mirror of Cyberspace as they hurtle towards a simulation of the world that detached from reality thirty years ago. #AI can save them. sites.libsyn.com/475359/hey-…
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Scott Broock retweeted
I'll tell you right now, NeRFs are more than just a new form of media, they're an entirely new medium.
Each medium is appropriate for a different kind of creativity and storytelling. Today we capture and share photos & videos. The next evolution is NeRFs. And you won’t need new hardware to capture them, just the phone in your pocket.
If photo's and videos are snapshots of our memories and reminders of our moments, then NeRFs are playgrounds for our memories that transform our moments into interactive canvases.
Our engagement with photos and videos is pretty much entirely passive. NeRFs can and will be interactive.
We won't just scroll through content, we’ll jump into it, move around it, view it from any perspective, and relive those moments from any point of view.
We will capture NeRFs and take photo's and videos inside of them. We'll remix our memories and transform them into something entirely new.
Ubiquitous NeRF culture will radically change the way we create, consume, understand, and engage with media and each other forever. It will feel like we're teleporting into each other's memories. It's incredibly intimate.
Memory playgrounds we can revisit, rediscover, and reimagine. Reality will become the metaverse.
The Art and Science of @Apple's Vision Pro. In this second episode of my new podcast with co-host @mikeseymour we deep dive into the AI/ML of the #visionPro and the "Polaroid Moment" of 3D movies and stills for your memories. Plus, AI Mickey. #ai #vr #ar sites.libsyn.com/475359/the-…
Agree with @ylecun that the positive message of AI needs greater exposure. My colleague @mikeseymour from the Motus Lab at the U. of Sydney and I just launched a podcast with a nuanced view of #AI, open source models, community fine tuning, and AI Salons. sites.libsyn.com/475359/the-…
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1/ @ericschmidt and Haidt are calling attention to the psychological risks of #AI. Their use of the shadow archetype is intentional; it's the dark part of our personal and collective psyche. The good news is there are positive archetypes as well. #jung
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2/ While the concept of the shadow is highly charged in our collective unconscious as the archetype of evil, it's also important to understand that we love archetypes of "the wise old man, "the mother," "the hero," and the "trickster."
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#AI is a rapidly developing medium diffusing through society as an intelligent Aether that will touch every aspect of our lives. This is producing a preverbal shock manifesting in culture as "alien" and "other" projected onto the rumor of #UAPs.
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Large language models can construct knowledge graphs that enhance our capabilities for knowledge processing, but they may also inadvertently reveal crucial psychological markers derived from our unconscious patterns. #ai #GPT #PaLM #Jung #unconscious link.medium.com/k9H5OQICkyb
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The future of AI may be decentralized Dyson Spheres.
From "AI: Black Mirrors to Dyson Spheres" medium.com/@sbroock/beyond-a…
#chatgpt #bing #lamda #ai #google #microsoft
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A Dyson Sphere is a hypothetical megastructure credited to mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson. He posited that any sufficiently advanced technological society will eventually build an artificial sphere around its nearest star to capture its energy.
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AI chatbots are absorbing users with human like responses. In reality, they are reflective mirrors for our unconscious material. In my essay "Beyond AI's Black Mirror," I examine the risks and promises of our new AI infused media. #ai #gpt #bing #lamda link.medium.com/Aa60TmttQxb
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