Has anyone else had any issues with Uber in London today? It just keeps saying looking for car and nothing happens.
Looking for two tickets to Solange in Sydney, please let me know if you are selling. @solangeknowles
A lot it interesting possibilities start to emerge when you think about convergence. @mpesce on how AI will facilitate the creation of metaverse spaces.
I wonder how much productivity is being lost today to people trying to get Taylor Swift tickets. We did a back of the napkin calculation based on 4m people trying to get tickets, median salary of $37 an hour, 2 hr presale+ 2hr general = $592 million. (We did not secure the bag)
This is wild. But I also saw something somewhere which was that Taylor is for people who never get over anything ever... nytimes.com/2023/06/17/opini…
Really lucky to see @sama speak tonight. This quote is the one that’s sticking with me. I’ve been spending the last year working on AI futures, and this is the exciting part of what may open up.
For background - I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past year working on what the future of AI could look like, and some days the potential for it to solve some of our greatest problems is immense, while on others, the potential for harm is also terrifying.
I don’t want to paint @sama as an idealist - he also said that we will also always seek out new problems to solve, and I think this is very true.
This is the best article I've seen explaining LLMs to a non-expert reader. nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
If anybody is trying to sell @lizkingsman tickets for Melbourne, please let me know.
Had a lot of fun helping to write and research the first cycle report. If you’re curious, you should definitely get on this.
The company I work for has been on holiday break since before Christmas. This is the longest proper break I’ve had in my career, with no emails to monitor or things happening in the background. Time to switch back on ahead of tomorrow. What else should I be reading?
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"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all." - Arthur C. Clarke #NYE2023


















