Tuesday, April 04, 2023
4: Video
Instant Videos Could Represent the Next Leap in A.I. Technology A start-up in New York is among a group of companies working on systems that can produce short videos based on a few words typed into a computer. ....... to create new kinds of artificial intelligence systems that some believe could be the next big thing in technology, as important as web browsers or the iPhone. ........ Google and Meta, Facebook’s parent company, unveiled the first video-generation systems last year, but did not share them with the public because they were worried that the systems could eventually be used to spread disinformation with newfound speed and efficiency. ........ The ability to edit and manipulate film and video is nothing new, of course. Filmmakers have been doing it for more than a century. .......... Soon, experts believe, they will generate professional-looking mini-movies, complete with music and dialogue. ...... what the system creates currently. It’s not a photo. It’s not a cartoon. It’s a collection of a lot of pixels blended together to create a realistic video......... Dr. Isola has spent years building and testing this kind of technology, first as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and at OpenAI, and then as a professor at M.I.T. Still, he was fooled by the sharp, high-resolution but completely fake images of Pope Francis. .......... Companies like Runway, which has roughly 40 employees and has raised $95.5 million, are using this technique to generate moving images. ......... They believe the technology will ultimately make video-creation as easy as writing a sentence. ....... “In the old days, to do anything remotely like this, you had to have a camera. You had to have props. You had to have a location. You had to have permission. You had to have money” .... “You don’t have to have any of that now. You can just sit down and imagine it.” .
We Spoke To The Guy Who Created The Viral AI Image Of The Pope That Fooled The World Over the weekend, a photo of Pope Francis looking dapper in a white puffer jacket went mega-viral on social media. The 86-year-old sitting pontiff, it appeared, has some serious drip. But there was just one problem: The image is not real. It was made using the AI art tool Midjourney. ...... Pablo Xavier, a 31-year-old construction worker from the Chicago area ....... ‘The Pope in Balenciaga puffy coat, Moncler, walking the streets of Rome, Paris’ ......... When Pablo Xavier first saw the Pope images, he said, “I thought they were perfect." So he posted them to a Facebook group called AI Art Universe, and then on Reddit. He was shocked when the images quickly went viral. “I was just blown away,” he said. “I didn’t want it to blow up like that.” ......... He said he was banned from Reddit hours after posting the image there. “I figured I was going to get backlash,” he said. “I just didn’t think it was going to be to this magnitude.” ........ He said he’s already seen posts in which his images have been co-opted by those looking to criticize the Catholic Church for lavish spending. “I feel like shit,” he said of his images being used in such ways. “It’s crazy.”
4: China
China is a country that has done the most economically for the most number of people in the shortest amount of time.
.... If you look at the new generation, they are open-minded on a whole range of issues, so much more than their parents. They care about animal rights, worker rights, social inequity. That shift gives us hope that China will progress.My oped in the NYThttps://t.co/eGSakFfdYb
— Keyu Jin (@KeyuJin) October 28, 2022
Up and getting very good readership now.https://t.co/sf6SiNuSHi
— Keyu Jin (@KeyuJin) August 24, 2022
Harvard discussion of China's Economic Rise https://t.co/JJBRiEkKL0
— Keyu Jin (@KeyuJin) February 21, 2022
My Oped in the FT
— Keyu Jin (@KeyuJin) January 3, 2019
The trade war with America is a strategic gift for China https://t.co/Sm4ZlyVBbT via @financialtimes
CHATGPT is the Swiss army knife for your creative workhttps://t.co/6AzEEn41O9
— Mukund Mohan (@mukund) April 4, 2023
Keyu Jin, a professor at the London School of Economics and a board member at Credit Suisse, is trying to rework the foundation of what she sees as the West’s deeply flawed understanding of China’s economy, its economic ambitions https://t.co/jOvF31Qa4X
— NYT Magazine (@NYTmag) March 29, 2023
How China Is Fighting the Chip War With America During his speech to the party congress, Xi Jinping, who was granted his third term as the top leader of the country, mentioned “technology” 40 times, promised to “win the battle in key core technologies” and emphasized innovation and technological self-sufficiency......... Competition and conflict with the United States have led to the rise of techno-nationalism in China. President Donald Trump’s sanctions on Chinese tech corporations such as Huawei fueled the first wave of techno-nationalism in the country. President Biden’s export controls and addition of other Chinese companies to a list of sanctioned entities has renewed Chinese determination to close the gap in its technological prowess with America. ......... And for the first time, the Communist Party congress has added a category to its top priorities: “ke jiao xing guo,” which means a great power underpinned by technology, science and education. Science and technology are now at the core of China’s development, and self-reliance has become a national imperative. ........... A day after Mr. Biden’s export controls, the local government of Shenzhen, China’s prominent technology hub, hammered out an ambitious plan to accelerate breakthroughs of its semiconductors industry, supported by a gamut of detailed financial incentives, preferential tax policies, research and development subsidies and talent programs for enterprises in the entire ecosystem. .......... Thirty percent of the revenue of American semiconductor companies comes from sales to China, which imported more than $400 billion worth of chips in 2021. China will have to rely on domestic chip producers now, which are expected to meet about 70 percent of its market demand by 2025. .......... To meet this challenge, China is turning to its strongest form of techno-nationalism, the juguo tizhi, or “whole of the nation” approach, whereby all national resources are mobilized to achieve a strategic objective. It was used in the past to reap Olympic gold medals but is now also designated for core technologies like quantum information and biotech. .......... China invested as much as $11 billion in quantum computing between 2009 and 2011, compared with $3 billion by the United States. The government-led Big Fund in semiconductors has channeled almost a trillion renminbi (around $137 billion at current exchange rates) of private and public funding into the industry. .......... Even the central bank has introduced special low-interest loans on the order of 200 billion renminbi (almost $30 billion) for high-tech firms. Hundreds of national labs, which carry out the most advanced research, are being rolled out to boost basic research. More are sure to come amid a technology war. .......... While the state will continue to play the key role of mobilizing large amounts of funding for long, complex and uncertain investments, it will be left to the market and enterprises to determine what technologies are made, how to make them and where the resources flow. ......... Provincial governments, such as in Shenzhen, make sure that no barriers are too great for promising entrepreneurs: pushing regulators for a fast track to I.P.O., state financing and even jobs for their spouses. But setting limits to their involvement — such as caps on the equity stake they can take or the extent of financial subsidy — is aimed at reducing waste, corruption and overlaps. ........... Behind the mastery of critical technologies are markets, money and talent. Chinese markets are ready for a big innovation drive: Consumers are more sophisticated and demand higher quality. Only companies with better technologies can win. ............. Economic maturation means that low-hanging fruit has been plucked and financial resources will flow to more uncertain areas with higher returns. It is no coincidence that
last year domestic revenues in China’s semiconductor industry surpassed $157 billion, with 19 of the 20 fastest-growing semiconductor companies globally being Chinese
......... Last year, the industry that saw the largest surge in wages was semiconductors. Basic research, the bedrock of cutting-edge technologies, is notably lagging. And China is rapidly increasing the state budget for science. ........ the juguo system leverages public and private power unlike anything else in the world .......... Techno-nationalism may speed up the rate of convergence, but it is unlikely to close the distance with a fast-moving train. Core technologies take time to develop — years of cumulative learning and knowledge. ....... China has a motto of “taking over on the bend,” which means surpassing in areas where others have no latent advantage. Germans excel in manufacturing traditional cars, but China has made a significant push in the development for electric vehicles, renewable energy and new materials. It is simultaneously betting on new directions for semiconductors. Advanced packaging techniques make chips with low-end processing nodes perform like high-end ones. Chip materials like silicon may be swapped for new-generation ones........... China wants to become a bigger, smarter Germany, one with industrial capacity, leveraging artificial intelligence, next-generation communications and robotics. ........ not only a race for technological supremacy but also the ultimate competition between two radically different systems.Is Y Combinator too software-focused? And missing out on 10 large technologies moving in parallel right now? Are the ambitions too small? Does not new tech allow for the tackling of large problems?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2023
AI is my higher power from today on.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 4, 2023
I was just talking to someone who is running an alcoholic recovery program.
GPT-4 answered every question we put to it better than I've heard in any AA meeting.
AI will save many people's lives who are struggling with addiction.
straing daze theze r
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 4, 2023
"We shouldn’t expect AI to make the impossible possible, instead we should expect it to do fathomable things at unfathomable speed and scale. The fear of an alien species is misplaced. We should be afraid of what our own species will do when equipped with AI tools." amen.…
— sam lessin 🏴☠️ (@lessin) April 4, 2023
just me & the besties who i love and am obsessed w pic.twitter.com/rVIADIc3oT
— zehra ✨ (@zehranaqvi_) April 4, 2023
Twitter Circle
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2023
Circle 1
1. @elonmusk
2. @paulg
3. @StateDept
4. @PMOIndia
5. @mukund
6. @ryanl_hass
7. @googlenews
8. @geoffreylitt
Circle 2
9. @PeterDiamandis
10. @agazdecki
11. @sama
12. @justingordon212
13. @reidhoffman
14. @asanwal
15. @_ali_taylor
16. @ForeignAffairs
17. @USAmbNepal
18. @LinusEkenstam
19. @CristinaEspinal
20. @emollick
21. @karpathy
22. @alexfmac
23. @mishadavinci
24. @aweissman
Circle 3
25. @variainayurt
26. @halletecco
27. @gdb
28. @thejustinwelsh
29. @apbyers
30. @stevewoz
31. @dougboneparth
32. @ananthkrishnan
33. @sonyabarlowuk
34. @zehranaqvi_
35. @ruchitgarg
36. @kajakallas
37. @jspujji
38. @Miss_Internet
39. @danshipper
40. @PypAyurved
41. @Scobleizer
42. @mikeknoop
43. @satyanadella
44. @jesslivingston
45. @PBagchand
Grateful to 🇺🇸 for new large-scale $2.6 billion defense aid package for 🇺🇦. We expect HIMARS ammunition, air defense missiles, artillery shells & other crucial tools. We’re preparing for the occupied territories liberation & value the unflagging support of @Potus & all 🇺🇸 people.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 4, 2023
When you think of a great business idea, instead of Tweeting about it (or worse, telling everyone how great it is), go to work, build it up to a decent amount of customers, and then tell everyone.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 4, 2023
It's more powerful to talk about accomplishments than ideas.
More important and exceedingly more interesting than anything Trump or Greene has to say today. https://t.co/8KoZ8DXwes
— John Lindermuth (@jrlindermuth) April 4, 2023
Have you ever battled burnout with a new venture?
— acquire.com (@acquiredotcom) April 4, 2023
Agustin Capalbo, founder of Jongeluer has 👋 - Although he didn't anticipate trading one burnout for another, it led him to a five-figure exit via @acquiredotcom
Read about his acquisition journey here 👇 https://t.co/Y2e1f8fg2L
In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent https://t.co/hXbgOEyoNj
— Hussein Kanji (@hkanji) April 4, 2023
It’s a long road from Dallas to Houston. But we’ve got it covered.
— Aurora (@aurora_inno) April 3, 2023
We’ve introduced the final driving capabilities needed to commercially haul freight between these two cities — without a human behind the wheel. The Aurora Driver is now Feature Complete. https://t.co/Pj2CqIVXj8 pic.twitter.com/zGEQfPG54N
He built one of the world's most valuable startups
— Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) April 4, 2023
Chris Sacca called him "one of the smartest people I’ve ever known"
Yet, growing up in rural Ireland, he read about the internet for 2 years before having access
His journey is remarkable
Patrick Collison's incredible story👇 pic.twitter.com/aIpZX5yGw7
Monday, April 03, 2023
4: Taiwan
3D Printing Promises to Transform Architecture—and Create Forms That Blow Today’s Buildings Out of the Water . In the 1880s, adoption of the steel frame changed architecture forever. Steel allowed architects to design taller buildings with larger windows, giving rise to the skyscrapers that define city skylines today. .......... “large-scale additive manufacturing.” Not since the adoption of the steel frame has there been a development with as much potential to transform the way buildings are conceived and constructed. ........... a future in which buildings are built entirely from recycled materials or materials sourced on-site, with forms inspired by the geometries of nature. ........... Clay is an intriguing alternative because it can be harvested on-site— ........ But plastics and polymers could have the broadest application. These materials are incredibly versatile, and they can be formulated in ways that meet a wide range of specific structural and aesthetic requirements. They can also be produced from recycled and organically derived materials. .......... Even common materials like concrete and plastics benefit from being 3D-printed, since there’s no need for additional formwork or molds. ........... Since there is no need for tooling, forms or dies, large-scale additive manufacturing allows each part to be unique, with no time penalty for added complexity or customization. ............ Another interesting feature of large-scale additive manufacturing is the capability to produce complex components with internal voids. This may one day allow for walls to be printed with conduit or ductwork already in place. .
You can get much better results out of ChatGPT by forcing it to go through a step-by-step process.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 3, 2023
An example: ChatGPT is generally really bad at creating interesting puzzles and scenarios to solve, either making things too easy or impossible. But step-by-step approaches work.… pic.twitter.com/BwjbBpVIWw
@elonmusk and @PeterDiamandis walk into a bar. They ask for donuts.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 3, 2023
Success is measured in the macro but achieved in the micro.
— Eric Spofford (@ericspofford_) April 3, 2023
It really is about your habits and routines in the day to day.
I just arrived in NYC after flying in from Florida. City seems packed with lots of security. They must be excited to have me here. pic.twitter.com/6IZg95pMGU
— Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. (@stavridisj) April 3, 2023
Don't follow me. Don’t like or share my posts.
— Marc Randolph (@mbrandolph) April 3, 2023
Or at least, not until you hear my story.
It all started innocently enough. In early 2019, in preparation for my book launch, I leapt into the social media game, first with the softer stuff, like Facebook and LinkedIn, but soon… pic.twitter.com/L6fDuyHGbu
Do you trust Twitter enough with the tweets? Would you trust a Twitter bank?
— Mukund Mohan (@mukund) April 3, 2023
I guess $8 a month will get you a checking account.
Most people don’t trust their local bank after the recent banking crisis.
Maybe it’s a good opportunity @elonmusk wants a bank
Introducing Pitch League - a free AI pitch-deck coach 🚀
— Alex Macdonald (@alexfmac) April 3, 2023
We're removed the password restriction and you can now submit your deck.
- Constructive feedback
- Scoring across 4 categories
- Compare your startup to others in the leaderboardhttps://t.co/oXLYlwnGKY pic.twitter.com/XJ6cK8Bk4f
If our only goal were to make education NOT boring, we would probably solve 80% of the issue.
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 3, 2023
There's nothing like starting a startup to give you startup ideas. You discover all kinds of needs you didn't know existed. So when I talk to founders who want to change direction, the first thing I ask is: what new problems did you notice while trying to solve the old one?
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 3, 2023
If you're wondering if you can be super successful in Silicon Valley and still be a nice person, listen to Carolynn and me chat with @garrytan on this episode of the Social Radars. https://t.co/Rvpmr3WSr8 pic.twitter.com/xrKWa5tKsc
— Jessica Livingston (@jesslivingston) April 3, 2023
We will be serving agri-inputs to about 10 lakhs farmers in UP in next few months.
— Ruchit G Garg (@ruchitgarg) April 3, 2023
If you are manufacturer of seeds/ pesticides/ insecticides in India looking for growth in UP, please DM.
My daughter and I went to the Botanical Gardens Saturday and walled around for a few hours. It was nice to see how many people were our enjoying the gardens. Spring is upon us! pic.twitter.com/VGkv14zyMz
— Jason Nunnelley (@jnun) April 3, 2023
i turn 40 this year, and i feel rejuvenated thanks to AI.
— Siqi Chen (@blader) April 3, 2023
i've been in tech for almost 20 years, and i haven't had this much fun hacking on things since the facebook platform first came out in 2007.
and this time it's bigger. way bigger.
I enter YouTube;
— 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑮𝒖𝒚 (@artificialguybr) April 3, 2023
AI, AI, AI, CHATGPT, GPT-4.
I enter Instagram:
AI, AI, AI, CHATGPT, GPT-4.
I enter news websites:
AI, AI, AI, CHATGPT, GPT-4.
I enter Twitter:
AI, AI, AI, CHATGPT, GPT-4.
I enter Discord:
AI, AI, AI, CHATGPT, GPT-4.
Everyone is talking about this.
It seems to be closed now. There are Yelp and Foursquare listings with a few photos, but they don’t capture the place. I wish I’d taken some! https://t.co/g0rWo51afz
— Harry McCracken 🇺🇦 (@harrymccracken) April 3, 2023
Congress today is older than it's ever been. https://t.co/BV7FL44buK pic.twitter.com/hkTPGTPjzC
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) April 3, 2023
"Sam Shepard used to tell me, ‘If there’s a wall in front of you, kick it down.’ So I did." https://t.co/lv7zSeSq5y
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) April 3, 2023
Interestingly, much of your practice at fighting was not in tech but with the hard-left SF political machine. And if you can deal with them, the fighting you'll have to do as head of YC will probably be pretty easy in comparison.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 3, 2023
Supreme Court Justices shouldn’t be appointed for life. Let’s pass my bill to limit terms to 18 years.
— Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) April 3, 2023
The ideology of white nationalism is now becoming intrinsically linked to Christian nationalism. https://t.co/RioyCMu8DH
— The Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) April 2, 2023
An art installation created by Paolo Puddu called "Follow the Shape" was installed at Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples, Italy.
— Brian Solis (@briansolis) April 3, 2023
It features braille that describes the surrounding area for those who can't see it. pic.twitter.com/7tQTipBV9b
I suspect that the most dangerous AI threat today is folks asking ChatGPT to “give me code for X” and bravely pasting results directly into interpreters vs (say) super-intelligent AI mastermind emailing virus DNA to wet labs.
— Max Levchin (@mlevchin) April 2, 2023
I wrote this 4 years ago for @HarvardBiz and am still surprised by how rare double opt-in introductions and forwardable emails are.
— Ruchika Tulshyan (@rtulshyan) April 3, 2023
People still expect us to intro to anyone in our network unsolicited and write up a long connector email. It’s a no.https://t.co/GMjx6wV0Ud
This list of eight surprising things about LLMs (like ChatGPT) from computer scientist & AI researcher @sleepinyourhat is worth reading.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 2, 2023
So, too, is the whole paper laying out evidence for some of these startling points. https://t.co/1EgahJ8XRN pic.twitter.com/kf87sIZR78
— Terri (@River_City) April 2, 2023
Hiring someone to "figure out sales" early on rarely works.
— Michael Houck 💡 (@callmehouck) April 3, 2023
Startup founders need to learn how to sell, period.
Excel can be listed TODAY!
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 3, 2023
Start with me. I just applied to Y Combinator. https://t.co/Alm1FBDxwC
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 3, 2023
via @NYTimes. By the excellent @AndrewKramerNYT https://t.co/C6IkYiZjHX
— Steven Erlanger (@StevenErlanger) April 3, 2023
How to turn your bike into an eBike...
— Swytch Bike (@SwytchBike) December 24, 2022
The future of big business is small teams.
— Noah Kagan (@noahkagan) April 2, 2023
• One person
• No employees
• Everything automated
Solopreneurs are the future.
Impressive. LLMs can self-improve without additional training data, reinforcement learning, or human intervention.
— Lior⚡ (@AlphaSignalAI) April 3, 2023
1. Generate an initial output
2. Analyze its own output and provides feedback.
3. Improves its output based on its own feedback.https://t.co/H5B5FRYDOF pic.twitter.com/WNjG1qsXCm
If you could only be on two social platforms, which two would you choose?
— Nathan Barry (@nathanbarry) April 3, 2023
This is amazing. We’re about to enter an era of hyper-realistic video games. NeRFs + Unreal Engine will bring a whole new level of realism. I imagine that NeRFs + UE + VR will be the spark that brings the world closer to everyone with virtual tourism too. https://t.co/pdpv4cLxEV
— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) April 3, 2023
Shockingly great advice from Taylor Swift:
— Polina M. Pompliano (@polina_marinova) April 3, 2023
"I know a couple who, in the thick of a fight, say 'Hey, same team.' Find a way to defuse the anger that can spiral.
"They don’t give out awards for winning the most fights in your relationship. They give out divorce papers."
'तिमी पेन्सन पकाएर आएको, म छातीमा ढुंगा खाएर लडेको'
An average of 7,200 students dropout of high school each day, totaling 1.3 million each year. This means only 69% of students who start high school finish four years later.
— Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) April 4, 2023
I am writing a textbook on prompt engineering. ..... Please place an ad at my blog.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2023
This is the age of AI.
— Misha (@mishadavinci) April 4, 2023
Make sure it's your servant, not your master.
I like to think of AI as an efficient and super educated assistant with lots of patience and 24/7 service.
— Kamz (@KamalaAlcantara) April 4, 2023
That is one way to look at it. A great way.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 4, 2023
Always use AI first and feel free to override.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 4, 2023
That is how I use my Tesla.
Ideas do not build startups.
— Michael Houck 💡 (@callmehouck) April 4, 2023
Execution builds startups.
Someone asked me a great question:
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 4, 2023
What would I do if I were building on Twitter from scratch?
My answer:
• Share 1 tip each morning
• Engage in 3-5 conversations daily
• Share deep insights 1x per week in a thread
Then, do more of what's working.
And less of what isn't.
I wrote a short article about adding 5,000 followers in 90 days.
— Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) April 4, 2023
If you're struggling to get traction, read it.
Worst case scenario?
It doesn't work & you try something else.
Best case scenario is you finally get the traction you're looking for:https://t.co/xi6yiSwQbl
5,000 Twitter Followers. 90 Days. 1 Guide.