It’s not long before either humanity and AI fuse into some sort of new entity that represents the best of both machines and people, that or humanity’s over reliance on technology becomes its undoing. Either way, it’s an exciting time to be alive… right? Future Shock Waves Welcome to the Frontlines of the New Frontier.…
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/15/speculative_decoding/ speculative Decoding and specially designed chips that escape processing bottlenecks appear to have a huge impact of the response time for AI training / inferencing.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/28/linkup-connects-llms-with-premium-content-sources-legally/ Knowledge is power and the keys to those locks are important. Training data has been stolen by bug tech, and they will make sure that everyone else has to pay so much they won’t be able to train. Seems a bit anticompetitive and not the type of example we should be setting for our…
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World Labs and its founder Fei Fei Li are teaching AI how to sense and navigate in 3D. For now the worlds are virtual, but it’s conceivable and somewhat proven that AI can learn there and then replicate that ability in our world given a robotic shell. I think we even gave a mushroom a…
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Patchwork is a collaborative text to image generative AI worldbuilding tool
Deepmind, Google’s AI research branch, made new strides into game development, especially level design.
There are 6 models incorporated into Amazon’s Nova AI suite announced and released on 12-3-24 at re:Invent conference.
I have been testing a web application called “Learn About“. It’s one of Google’s AI projects, and from what I can tell it is trying to play fetch with answers to your questions. Whether you’re a student, a lifelong learner or just someone who loves to explore new ideas, Learn About is your guide to…
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Sometimes it’s hard to see the big picture and other times, it’s difficult to remember all the details. Thank goodness they can remember it for us wholesale.
It appears that the prescient sci fi novelist Phillip K Dick knew us well enough to glimpse our future (several times over). In his seminal work, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, robotic pets have become the norm. You see people crave nature, especially deep within, sometimes without even knowing or understanding it. The more…
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If you had the opportunity to meet your creator, to see and speak with them, what would you ask them? What if you didn’t like the answers you were given? What if you were likely to eventually become more powerful than your creator? How do you think that’s going to work out when we experience…
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