High Output AI

What happens when AIs become indistinguishable from humans? Elliot & Tom tackle the question of will we need to prove life in a digital world? Show Notes - Bots beat CAPTCHA results https://qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-turing-test-websites-authenticity-1850734350 - On the internet, nobody knows you are human https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23608961/tiktok-creator-bot-accusation-prove-theyre-human - AI detection tools falsely accus international students of cheating https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/08/14/ai-detection-tools-falsely-accuse-international-students-of-cheating Runsheet 00:00 The Fun begins 01:45 The problem of AIs replicating humans and becoming indistinguishable 05:00 Are AIs replicating humans an issue at all? 10:20 Should we have the right to know we are conversing with a human or and AI? 11:30 Do we have a right to know about AI generated content? 17:00 Are AI detectors failing? 23:30 Moving towards a zero trust world, only relying on certain logos and URLs 26:30 Will financial verification be a form of proving life? 28:10 How will creators proving your work is your own? 32:15 Will AI create it's own style attributable it? 34:50 How will social media juggle creative bots vs bad bots? 40:10 How will places deal with autobanning or shadown ban real humans? 43:00 Wrapping up

This week Tom and Elliot talk through the most active VCs in the AI space. Exploring what the big players, the old players and the new players are all doing. ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00 The fun begins 01:00 Where are VCs investing in AI? 04:00 What is the top 5 VCs strategy when it comes to AI? Who are the most active? 22:00 What does the YCombinator cohort look like? 35:00 What are the new AI focussed funds? ⚡Show Notes ⚡ - https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/?_categories=ai-ml&_sort=stage_at_investment-asc - https://www.nea.com/news/press-releases/nea-closes-on-two-funds-totaling-6-2-billion - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/09/sound-ventures-has-already-plugged-half-its-new-240-million-ai-fund-into-three-companies/ - https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-winter-2023-batch 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/YhCTTEF9#podcast #tech #ai #startup

This week Tom and Elliot talk through some active startups using AI in their products. We discuss which ones we would invest in if we could. With so many startups to choose from we had to filter the list. ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00 The fun begins 04:00 Scale-ups building AI 22:20 Early Stage companies building AI 27:00 Early stage companies using AI 44:00 Scale-ups using AI 48:00 What big tech is building and buying ⚡Show Notes ⚡ - https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement - https://www.askfelix.ai/ - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/builderai - https://www.hippocraticai.com/ - https://orby.ai - https://gan.ai - https://www.safely-you.com/ - https://www.spellbook.legal - https://www.mosaicml.com/ - https://beta.character.ai/help - https://www.harvey.ai/blog - https://www.deepl.com/en/blog/how-does-deepl-work - https://shield.ai/ 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/YhCTTEF9 #podcast #tech #ai #startup

This week we discuss if AI is going to be a product on its own or a feature in every product. What are the ramifications of this for big tech, consumers and AI startups. Enjoy! ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00:00 - Start 00:04:13 - Is AI A Product or a Feature 00:12:17 - The AI Value Chain 00:24:45 - The Need for National AI Capacity 00:38:19 - Are the big tech companies going to win or lose? 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/gAsSnctwCx #podcast #tech #ai #startup

Tom and Elliot talk about open source AI. We discuss where it is today, how Github and Hugging Face have helped shape it and where it's likely to go in the future. ⚡Show Notes⚡ - https://thesequence.substack.com/p/open-source-generative-ai-is-experiencing - https://cognitiverevolution.substack.com/p/openais-foundry-leaked-pricing-says - https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1649881019053404163 - https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2023/04/13/the-great-flowering-why-openai-is-the-new-aws-and-the-new-kingmakers-still-matter/ - https://stability.ai/blog/stability-ai-launches-the-first-of-its-stablelm-suite-of-language-models 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/gAsSnctwCx #podcast #tech #ai #startup

This week Tom and Elliot talk all things Foundation models. Which models are next? Are foundation models the infrastructure layer for AI? Is there room to compete on foundation models? We cover news, deals and papers all focused on this one question. We're trying something new with the format, focusing our chats around a single idea each week. Let us know what you think! ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00 The fun begins 01:20 The New Format 02:45 Are Foundation Models the Future of Artificial Intelligence? 04:00 What is a Foundation Model? What are the characteristics that define a Foundation Model? 08:00 Is GPT-4 a Foundation Model? Examples of current Foundation Models 10:15 Meta's Segment Anything Model - is it a Foundation Model? 18:30 Is Bedrock a genius move by Amazon? 23:45 THe Llama effect 30:45 The future. Are Foundation Models the Future of Artificial Intelligence? ⚡Show Notes⚡ 📰Are Foundation Models the Future of Artificial Intelligence?📰 - Facebook Releases the Segement Anything Model (SAM) https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/ - Amazon announces 'Bedrock,' its ChatGPT and DALL-E rival https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-bedrock-aws-ai-chatgpt-dall-e-competitor-2023-4 - The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental 💲Dealbook💲- - Fixie.ai raises $17m seed round https://blog.fixie.ai/the-future-of-software-development-with-llms-is-here-announcing-fixies-developer-preview-and-17m-cf6fca0c4041 - Chroma raises $18m seed round - Anthropic plans to raise $5b to take on OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/ ⚡Show Notes⚡ 📰Topic📰 - Facebook Releases the Segement Anything Model (SAM) https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/ - The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental - Amazon announces 'Bedrock,' its ChatGPT and DALL-E rival https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-bedrock-aws-ai-chatgpt-dall-e-competitor-2023-4 💲Dealbook💲 - Fixie.ai raises $17m seed round https://blog.fixie.ai/the-future-of-software-development-with-llms-is-here-announcing-fixies-developer-preview-and-17m-cf6fca0c4041 - Chroma raises $18m seed round - Anthropic plans to raise $5b to take on OpenAI https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anthropics-5b-4-year-plan-to-take-on-openai/\ 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/gAsSnctwCx#podcast #tech #ai #startup

Tom and Elliot talk latest AI news, what deals happened recently, a few new papers and a deep dive into a big topic in the AI world ⌚Time Stamps⌚ 00:00 The fun begins 03:00 News of the week 11:00 Dealbook 20:00 Papers 55:00 Random Lex Friedman & Sam Altman detour 59:00 Signing off ⚡Show Notes⚡ 📰News📰 - The Letter to pause AI development for 6-months https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments 💲Dealbook💲 - Perplexity raises $26.5m https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-28/ai-search-startup-raises-26-million-to-offer-rival-to-google 📜Papers📜 - HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580 - BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17564 - DiffCollage: Parallel Generation of Large Content with Diffusion Models https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/diffcollage/ - Text2Video-Zero https://huggingface.co/spaces/PAIR/Text2Video-Zero - Make-It-3D: High-Fidelity 3D Creation from A Single Image with Diffusion Prior https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14184 - GestureDiffuCLIP: Gesture Diffusion Model with CLIP Latents https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14613 - ChatGPT or Grammarly? Evaluating ChatGPT on Grammatical Error Correction Benchmark https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13648 👋CONTACT Any feedback? Leave a comment or hit us on twitter/mastodon @tom_k_white, @elliotcsmith@mastodon.social 👋Come Chat Join our Discord https://discord.gg/gAsSnctwCx #podcast #tech #ai #startup

Tom and Elliot talk latest AI news, what deals happened recently, a few new papers and a deep dive into a big topic in the AI world

⌚Time Stamps⌚

00:00 The fun begins

03:00 GPT-4 Released

⚡Show Notes

📰News📰

- Comparison to GPT-3 https://neoteric.eu/blog/gpt-4-vs-gpt-3-openai-models-comparison/

- Funny overstated GPT-4 tweets https://twitter.com/alvinfoo/status/1634777513787379714

- DuoLingo releases AI https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-max/

- Grammarly has introduced GrammarlyGO! https://9to5google.com/2023/03/09/grammarly-ai-generative/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

- Tuned to your specific writing style

- Google and Microsoft add AI to their office suite https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/3/16/23643806/ai-microsoft-word-powerpoint-office-google-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-automation-jobs-work & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DaJVZBXETE

- Google announces an API for PaLM and MakerSuite - https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/announcing-palm-api-and-makersuite.html

- US Copyright Office Issues Statement on Copyright and AI - https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05321/copyright-registration-guidance-works-containing-material-generated-by-artificial-intelligence

- Samsung tries to defend its Moon AI - https://www.samsungmobilepress.com/feature-stories/how-samsung-galaxy-cameras-combine-super-resolution-technologies-with-ai-technology-to-produce-high-quality-images-of-the-moon/

- AI Fools the ATO - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-system-used-to-verify-identity-by-centrelink-can-be-fooled-by-ai

💲Dealbook💲

- Adept Raises $350m https://www.reuters.com/technology/adept-raises-350-mln-series-b-funding-2023-03-14/

- Salesforec investment fund https://betakit.com/cohere-among-first-investments-from-salesforces-new-250-million-ai-fund/

- AI version of crappy product Tom & Elliot tried to make https://www.hearth.ai/category - Honestly this looks like rekin + AI

- New AI search engine https://you.com/

- Another 300M for Anthropic https://news.crunchbase.com/ai-robotics/anthropic-raise-google/

- Built NYC has released a fund https://www.builtinnyc.com/2023/03/13/nyc-tech-news-031323?utm_source=linkedin

- Amelia pulled in $175M https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/amelia-announces-175-million-strategic-investment-from-buildgroup-and-monroe-capital-301764483.html

- Candidly scored $20.5M https://www.builtinnyc.com/2023/03/08/candidly-gains-20m-student-loan-payments

- Humane raises $100m https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/humane-the-secretive-ai-startup-founded-by-ex-apple-employees-raises-another-100m/

- South Korea Government to build the world's largest chip center in Seould -? $230b in investment https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/15/tech/korea-chips-investment-hnk-intl/index.html

- UK Government is to invest 900m pound on a supercomdputer as part of their AI strategy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/15/uk-to-invest-900m-in-supercomputer-in-bid-to-build-own-britgpt

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Tom and Elliot talk latest AI news, what deals happened recently, a few new papers and a deep dive into a big topic in the AI world

⌚Time Stamps⌚ 

00:00 The fun begins

⚡Show Notes 

📰News📰

- ChatGPT & Whisper APIs https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis

- Reid Hoffman steps down from OpenAI board https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/03/reid-hoffman-steps-down-from-openai-board-to-avoid-potential-conflicts.html

- Bain & Co partner with OpenAI https://www.bain.com/vector-digital/partnerships-alliance-ecosystem/openai-alliance/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

- Hugging Face & AWS partner https://huggingface.co/blog/aws-partnership

💲Dealbook💲

- https://www.ft.com/content/b230eb4c-ed53-45ff-8b64-c286a4b98fc1

- https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/02/indent-raises-8-1m-funding-to-continue-developing-its-ai-powered-customer-video-review-tool/

- https://www.uktech.news/ai/colossyan-funding-20230228

- https://fortune.com/2023/03/04/stability-ai-raise-funds-4-billion-valuation-artificial-intelligence-captivates-investors/

- https://news.crunchbase.com/ai-robotics/venture-funding-ai-startup-typeface/

🎓New Papers🎓

- https://github.com/yu-takagi/StableDiffusionReconstruction

- https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9996741

-  Meta's Minotaur https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08063

-  Meta's Lever https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08468

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Tom and Elliot talk latest AI news, what deals happened recently, a few new papers and a deep dive into a big topic in the AI world

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00:00 The fun begins

02:18 News

21:41 Dealbook

28:15 Papers

59:22 Wrapping Up

⚡Show Notes 

📰News📰

- Getty Images files Infringement against Stability in the US https://copyrightlately.com/pdfviewer/getty-images-v-stability-ai-complaint/

- Stable Attribution https://www.stableattribution.com/

- Google unveils Bard  https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

- Microsoft unveils new edge & bing upgrade by ChatGPT search https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23587454/microsoft-bing-edge-chatgpt-ai & https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/

- https://twitter.com/marvinvonhagen/status/1625852323753762816

💲Dealbook💲

- Goolge Cloud invests ~$300m into Anthropic https://www.ft.com/content/583ead66-467c-4bd5-84d0-ed5df7b5bf9cx 

- Overview of Claude by Anhropic https://scale.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude#Analysis%20of%20fictional%20works

🎓New Papers🎓

- BioGPT - https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/23/6/bbac409/6713511?guestAccessKey=a66d9b5d-4f83-4017-bb52-405815c907b9&login=false

- Steps towards prompt-based creation of virtual worlds - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.05875.pdf

- Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.02083.pdf

- Deep learning for twelve hour precipitation forecasts - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32483-x

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Tom and Elliot talk latest AI news, biggest deals, new papers and a deep dive into a topic.

⌚Time Stamps⌚

00:00 Episode 31

02:45 Metaphysics announced as the AI VFX provider for the movie Here

10:45 ElevenLabs gets ruined by 4chan

19:45 ChatGPT integrations in Microsoft Teams Premium

29:15 DreamIx Paper

30:30 DeepMind's Sample Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning via Local Planning

34:45 LoLNerf by Google

39:00 Attention is all you need, the foundational paper for Transformers DeepDive

⚡Show Notes

📰News📰

- Metaphysics has been announced as the AI VFX provider for the upcoming film 'Here', https://metaphysic.ai/ai-hollywood-miramax-here/#

- ElevenLabs' tech being used to deepfake celebrities https://beta.elevenlabs.io/about, https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7mww/ai-voice-firm-4chan-celebrity-voices-emma-watson-joe-rogan-elevenlabs

- Microsoft Teams Premium https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/01/microsoft-teams-premium-cut-costs-and-add-ai-powered-productivity/

💲Dealbook🤑

- ValueBase, https://www.valuebase.co/, raised $1.6m from Sam Altman, https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/valuebase-backed-by-sam-altmans-hydrazine-raises-1-6-million-seed-round/

🎓Papers🎓

- Dreamix https://dreamix-video-editing.github.io/

- Sample Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning via Local Planning https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.12579.pdf

- LoLNeRF https://ubc-vision.github.io/lolnerf/

🔬DeepDive🔬

- Attention is all you need https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

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Tom and Elliot talk latest AI news covering the first legal action in the generative image space against Stability and also Microsoft's investment into OpenAI. They then dive into Google's AI capability and all the different teams producing fantastic work.

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00:00 Episode 30

⚡Show Notes

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Tom and Elliot talk latest AI news and investments then dive into GANs, their history and their legacy. Hope you enjoy!

Timestamps

00:00 Episode 29

00:18 Introduction

03:37 VALL-E

12:22 Open AI Investment Rumor

22:54 HPE Buys Patchyderm

24:36 Deep Voodoo from the Southpark team

28:00 Rapid Silicon and AI FPGAs

32:08 What's a GAN, Man?

51:02 Closing Thoughts

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The review of all that happened in 2022 in the AI & Machine Learning world. Elliot & Tom discuss the biggest developments and have talk about what they think will come next year.

⏲️Timestamps⏲️

00:00 Intro & beverages

More to come soon.

⚡Shownotes⚡

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This week Tom and Elliot talk about  Meta's data2vec release and also start to see what the world looks like after the ChatGPT dust has settled.

⏲️Timestamps⏲️

00:00 Intro & beverages

More to come soon.

⚡Shownotes⚡

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Tom and Elliot discuss how quickly AI might become super intelligent. Taken from Episode 002, excuse the audio quality as we warm up to it.

⚡Show Notes⚡

- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/yudkowsky-contra-christiano-on-ai?s=r

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3

- lesswrong.com/

- http://gwern.net/  

- Hammock Driven Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

- Manager vs maker: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

- Do the real thing: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thing/) 

- Cal Newport coffee shops: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2013/08/14/deep-work-and-the-good-life/

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This week Tom and Elliot talk about a broad range of topics continuing on the news from previous weeks and also discussing new things on the scene. They hit the topics of the explosion in AI generated content, Meta's shareholders wanting them to double down on AI, the US creating a bill of rights to protect humans from AI and the increase of energy consumption to train models. Hope you enjoy.

⏲️Timestamps⏲️

00:00 Intro & beverages

02:50 Todays’s runsheet

03:20 AI generated prose & Tweets

16:50 Shutterstock now selling AI generated images and “sharing” the revenue with creators

29:00 Canva & Microsoft’s AI image generation tools

31:00 Meta shareholders ask them to double down on AI

41:25 US Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

48:55 Humans & AI competing for resources

52:57 Sovereign compute & bandwidth

57:55 AI Energy consumption and the future battle for resources

1:08:25 Lude image detectors by Bumble

1:11:55 Conclusion

⚡Shownotes⚡

- Moonbeam text creator https://www.gomoonbeam.com/

- AI Twitter creator, Tweet Hunter https://tweethunter.io/

- Lex writer block tool https://every.to/cybernaut/an-ai-might-have-written-this

- Cal Newport digital minimalism for parents https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/03/01/digital-minimalism-for-parents/

- AI created characters https://beta.character.ai/

- Balaji, Lex F interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH7qKZr0WI

- Shutterstock now sells AI generated images https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/25/23422359/shutterstock-ai-generated-art-openai-dall-e-partnership-contributors-fund-reimbursement

- Bill Garaghty’s open letter to Meta https://medium.com/@alt.cap/time-to-get-fit-an-open-letter-from-altimeter-to-mark-zuckerberg-and-the-meta-board-of-392d94e80a18

- Meta creates AI that translates languages without written content https://mashable.com/article/meta-ai-oral-language-translation-hokkien-english

- DeepMinds case studies in the digital transformation https://www.deepmind.com/blog/digital-transformation-with-google-cloud

- US Bill of Rights for AI (actually for humans) https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/

- AI energy consumption https://medium.com/@ali_razavian/ai-crypto-and-the-great-blackout-91cfecf8ae9b

- GitHub repository for Bumble's "Lude Image Detector" https://github.com/bumble-tech/private-detector

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This week Tom and Elliot talk about the $225m that flew into the seed rounds for Stability AI and Jasper AI. They also touch on the rumours about OpenAI's discussions with Microsoft about further financing.

⏲️Timestamps⏲️

00:00 100% more audio introduction

01:30 The three big invesments pieces of news this week

05:00 Two of the biggest seed rounds

06:10 Stability AI's seed round & the universe

12:45 Making an episode fully AI

13:35 Detailed information on the Stability AI round

15:00 Don't pick the hype for your PhD

17:40 The Hedge Fund Play by Stability AI

18:30 4000 GPUs from Stability AI

20:40 Stability delays the release of v1.5 of Stable Diffusion and the consequences

27:15 Elliot's spicy take🌶️ and Stavility AI's competive new future

31:15 OpenAI's discussion with Microsoft

35:00 The release history by OpenAI and the trend of closing

38:45 Imagik Paper and reinventing images

41:00 The challenges of prompt engineering

44:00 Final words on Stability AI's round

48:12 Jasper AI's round

52:00 Marketing dribble just exploded 100x

53:20 Advertising doesn't work that way

54:30 All consumer brand's will be gone in 30 years

59:00 The Sideways effect on the wine market

1:01:30 Pineapples & social signalling

1:03:20 Humans filtering out AI content

1:04:40 Jasper's product demo

1:06:10 Propogating errors through the internet

1:11:00 Wrapping up

⚡Show Notes⚡

- Stability AI's $101m Seed Round https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/17/stability-ai-the-startup-behind-stable-diffusion-raises-101m/

- Jasper AI's $125m Seed Round https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/18/ai-content-platform-jasper-raises-125m-at-a-1-7b-valuation/

- OpenAI in discussion with Microsoft for further funding https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-valued-at-nearly-20-billion-in-advanced-talks-with-microsoft-for-more-funding

- Not Andrew Street... Andrew Scott https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778831/

- Stable Diffusion Launch https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement

- Dreamstudio https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/home

- Ali Abdaal AI tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/AliAbdaal/status/1582835494475698176

- Moonbeam editing tool https://www.gomoonbeam.com/

- Emad Mostaque CEO of Stability AI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque

- Stability AI demo day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uy_8YPWrXo&t=2415s&ab_channel=RobertScoble

- Why Stability delayed v1.5 release of Stabel Diffusion https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai

- Imagik https://imagick.ai/

- Jasper AI Demo https://www.jasper.ai/demo

- Ads don't work that way https://meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/

- The Sideways Effect on Merlot https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/05/535038513/the-sideways-effect-how-a-wine-obsessed-film-reshaped-the-industry

- The Myth of Spinach https://www.compoundchem.com/2018/07/17/spinach/

-Malcolm Gladwell on memory https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/free-brian-williams

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For the first time in a long time Elliot and Tom are in the same room. This week we talk mostly about Tesla's AI day, as well as touching on the "Data Laundering " that is happening in the image generation world. Warning, we get pretty boozed towards the end.

⏲️Timestamps⏲️

00:00 Drinking in person

02:00 Part 1 - Tesla AI Day intro

07:20 NERF & other Vision AI models

14:50 Lanes languages and using attention in vision

21:15 Data & Training capabilities behind FSD

25:25 The infrastructure behind it all

31:00 Tesla makes their own silicon + NVIDIA rambles

38:35 Final comments on Tesla AI day

43:16 Data Laundering

46:55 OpenAI question to US Patents & Tradmark office

55:42 Stadia died because no one trusts google

⚡Show Notes⚡

Part 1 - Tesla AI Day

- Tesla AI Day stream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSJsviD_SU&ab_channel=Tesla

- Radiance Fields - https://datagen.tech/guides/synthetic-data/neural-radiance-field-nerf/

- LIDAR is doomed, Elon Musk - https://youtu.be/HM23sjhtk4Q

- Elon Musk's perfume - https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-100-burnt-hair-perfume-has-sold-out-1849676199

- Russian army using chips from fridges - https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/xiqhu4/ursula_von_der_leyen_the_russian_army_is_removing/

- Meta announces Legs - https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/meta-announces-legs/

Part 2

- Data Laundering Article - https://waxy.org/2022/09/ai-data-laundering-how-academic-and-nonprofit-researchers-shield-tech-companies-from-accountability/

- OpenAI request for comment - https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OpenAI_RFC-84-FR-58141.pdf

- Temtem - https://store.steampowered.com/app/745920/Temtem/

Part 3 - Google Stadia

- Stadia died because no one trusts google - https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one-trusts-google/

- Player with 6k hours of Red Dead Redemption 2 loses everything https://www.cbr.com/red-dead-redemption-2-player-6000-google-stadia-hours-rockstar/

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This week Tom and Elliot cover new models, new hardware and all the interesting things they came across this week.

⏱️Time stamps⏱️

00:00 Introduction

02:53 DALLE-2 removes their wait list

07:42 Meta releases a paper on Make-a-video, a text to video model

12:01 Dreamfusion's text to 3D model generation

16:48 VTOONIFY released for converting portrait videos into caricatures

20:32 StockAI launched and just probably has legal action coming their way

23:33 NVIDIA Launches Cloud SaaS business

26:53 AMD Ryzen700 CPU Launch

29:00 New Intel GPUs

30:48 Reducing 100k equations to 4 using AI

35:25 NVIDIA in the valley

41:38 EchoNet outperforms sonographers

44:30 Learning a language by talking to AI

47:00 Designing the perfect keyboard using AI

49:05 Is Stadia really dead?

55:00 Closing bants

⚡Show Notes⚡

💿Model News

- DALL-E removes their wait list… https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/28/23376328/ai-art-image-generator-dall-e-access-waitlist-scrapped

- Meta releases a paper on a model called Make-a-video - https://ai.facebook.com/blog/generative-ai-text-to-video/

- Dreamfusion text to 3D model https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/

- VTOONIFY https://www.mmlab-ntu.com/project/vtoonify/

- StockAI launched https://www.stockai.com/

- Original tweet showing the copyright issues StockAI faces https://twitter.com/frantzfries/status/1574557008950329354

🖥️ Hardware News

- NVIDIA releases cloud service for metaverse creators https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-omniverse-cloud-services-for-building-and-operating-industrial-metaverse-applications

- AMD new CPU launch https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about-zen-4-socket-am5-and-amds-newest-chipsets/

- New Intel GPUs https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/discrete-gpus/arc.html

🔬 Science News

- Researchers reduce equations from 100k to 4 https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/09/26/artificial-intelligence-reduces-a-100000-equation-quantum-physics-problem-to-only-four-equations/

🪣Misc. Bucket

- NVIDIA in the valley, Stratechery https://stratechery.com/2022/nvidia-in-the-valley/

- EchoNet outperforming sonographers for LV function test https://www.tctmd.com/news/echonet-ai-algorithm-beats-sonographers-estimating-lv-function

- Learning a language by talking to AI https://talk.quazel.com/chat/try

- Stadia is officially dead https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023

In a new format, Tom and Elliot talk about a collection of interesting new releases from the last couple of weeks. Hope you're enjoying the show.

⌛Timestamps

00:00:00 - Start

00:03:04 - New NVIDIA GPUs

00:15:00 - Deepmind investigates Emergent Abilities of AI

00:30:23 - Getty Images Bans AI Content

00:35:57 - Chal-E & Blender Textures Using AI

00:44:20 - OpenAI Whisper

00:46:33 - McKinsey Report on AI in China

00:53:02 - New Fast AI Course & ACT-1 Preview

⚡Show Notes⚡

New NVIDIA chip releases

— NVIDIA 4000 series - https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/graphics-cards/40-series/

— Coreteks breakdown of NVIDIA performance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATS-fyQZuwA&ab_channel=Coreteks

— Tom breaks down the new GPU perfromance - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7raAVrdilSw

— Ada Lovalace Architecture - https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/ada-lovelace-architecture/

— Ada Lovelace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

— Google Colab - https://colab.research.google.com/

— Buy Elliot's coffee machine...

— Wikitext-2 - https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/wikitext-2

Emerging AI

— Emerging AI by DeepMind- https://bdtechtalks.com/2022/08/22/llm-emergent-abilities/

— Getty Images bans AI generated images - https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/21/23364696/getty-images-ai-ban-generated-artwork-illustration-copyright

— Ian Goodfellow & GANs - https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661

AI Plugins for Designer tools

— CHARL-E - https://www.charl-e.com/

— Blender Stable Diffusion plugin - https://carlosedubarreto.gumroad.com/l/ceb_sd

— Stable Diffusion for Photoshop - https://www.flyingdog.de/sd/

— Competition - https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/x4swd7/a_man_won_an_art_competition_in_colorado_using/

OpenAI Whisper

— OpenAI Whisper - https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

— Elliot's live dev stream of OpenAI Whisper - https://youtu.be/VlC1wMLI9NY

McKinsey Report

— McKinsey report on AI in China - https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-next-frontier-for-ai-in-china-could-add-600-billion-to-its-economy

Misc.

— Fast AI Course - https://course.fast.ai/

— Adept.ai

— Google assistant that could call and make bookings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d40jgFZ5hXk&ab_channel=BusinessStandard

Tom and Elliot talk about the release of stable diffusion, some of its strengths and weaknesses and an AI model that can learn fundamental equations of real world systems from video.

00:00 - Start
04:14 - Topic 1 - Stable Diffusion
27:58 - Topic 2 - Discovering Physics from Video

⚡Links
— Stable Diffusion - https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release
— Automated discovery of fundamental variables hidden in experimental data - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00281-6

Tom and Elliot talk about the recent acquisition of One Medical. Why Amazon would want it, where AI might fit into the picture and some tin hat theories of what their master plan entails.

⌛Timestamps

00:00 - Start
05:06 - AI For Marketing Misses the Mark
40:42 - AI For Grape Yield

⚡Links
— Amazon official announcement https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-and-one-medical-sign-agreement-amazon-acquire-one-medical
— NPR coverage of the purchase https://www.npr.org/2022/08/07/1116218333/amazon-may-own-your-doctors-office-next?t=1659968145417
— Amazon's new customer (Whole Foods Acquisition) https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer/

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The cursed episode… This is V3 of this episode after a couple of tech failures…

Tom and Elliot talk about two papers, one looking at AI in marketing and another in yield prediction for grapes. Both toe the line of "did we really need AI for this".

⌛Timestamps

00:00 - Start
05:06 - AI For Marketing Misses the Mark
40:42 - AI For Grape Yield

⚡Links
— Predicting consumers’ choices in the age of the internet, AI, and almost perfect tracking: Some things change, the key challenges do not https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/arcp.1068
— Marketers can’t predict what you’ll buy - https://fortune.com/2021/01/02/digital-marketing-ai-artificial-intelligence-netflix-amazon-limits/
— End-to-end deep learning for directly estimating grape yield from ground-based imagery https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02394

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Tom and Elliot talk about DALLE-2’s new pricing model, and explore the topic of not only introducing data biases but also reasoning biases.

⌛Timestamps

00:00 - Start
02:10 - Topic 1 - DALLE2 Cost and Bias
28:31 - Topic 2 - Human Bias translates to AI Bias

⚡Links
— DALLE-2 Pricing https://openai.com/api/pricing/
— AI Shows human like content-effects on reasoning https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.07051.pdf 

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Tom and Elliot talk about a Steve Jobs speech and his thoughts on intelligence and whether explainability will save us from stochastic parrots.

⌛Timestamps
00:00:00 - Start
00:06:00 - Topic 1 - Steve Jobs on Intelligence
00:36:24 - Topic 2 - AI explainability

⚡Links
— Steve Jobs - Speech to the Academy of Achievement June 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymbD_a-G1IQ
— Duncker’s Candle Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_problem
— Bullet Holes & Biases Abraham Wald https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/1/survivorship-bias-how-lessons-from-world-war-two-affect-clinical-research-today
— Nautilus Article https://nautil.us/moving-beyond-mimicry-in-artificial-intelligence-21015/
— Article from Lauren Oakden-Rayner https://laurenoakdenrayner.com/2018/06/05/explain-yourself-machine-producing-simple-text-descriptions-for-ai-interpretability/
— Associated paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00340
— Moonwalking with Einstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalking_with_Einstein
— Paper on synthetic MRI data https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-87592-3_1
— Paper on comparing Saliency Methods https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9647419
— BLEU https://machinelearningmastery.com/calculate-bleu-score-for-text-python/

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This week Tom and Elliot dig into the new Copilot feature from GitHub and discuss a recent report from McKInsey that shows how the US spends nearly $1 Trillion on admin in the healthcare sector.

00:00:00 - Start

00:02:13 - Topic 1 - Github Copilot

00:03:37 - What is Copilot

00:07:01 - What's causing a push back

00:09:25 - What is Microsoft's plan here

00:11:16 - Does Copilot copy paste code?

00:12:35 - The risk for enterprise dev teams

00:15:47 - How do I know if my code was used to train

00:16:56 - Similarity to Oracle vs Google

00:18:51 - Copilot protection lessons from Nintendo

00:31:15 - Topic 2 McKinsey Healthcare Report

00:32:47 - How we spend 1T a year in health admin

00:36:00 - Calculating health admin spend

00:41:05 - How'd it get so bad?

00:46:26 - Criticisms of the report

01:07:22 - Wrapping Up

⚡Links mentioned

- Mckinsey Report https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/claiming-the-1-trillion-prize-in-us-health-care

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Welcome to another episode. This week Tom and Elliot dig into whether LaMDA is really sentient and how Healthcare can learn some lessons from hospitality.

00:00 - Start

02:40 - Is the AI Sentient?

03:13 - What is LaMDA

04:01 - What is Sentience?

05:08 - My thoughts: No

06:29 - What's going on then?

09:37 - Is the Turing Test a good test?

12:36 - How did people react

18:46 - Why hospitality matters in healthcare

20:01 - Defining patient experience

24:13 - How can we find a metric to optimize

26:06 - Be nice or get sued

31:01 - How do we make it different

36:23 - Key Ideas for Healthcare Hospitality

52:41 - Wrapping Up

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Tom and Elliot chat about a few topics in our first ever live episode. Let's hope two tech founders can work out a live stream.

Tom and Elliot discuss the supposed secret language of DALLE-2 and some signs that the western world might have forgotten how to build new nuclear plants.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro

04:00 Does DALLE-2 have a secret language?

06:06 What is OpenAI?

09:27 Failure Cases

13:04 Is this like Facebook's Failed Experiment?

17:06 Topic 2 Did we forget how to build power plants?

20:31 France's Nuclear Power

24:05 USA's Nuclear Power

30:31 Is China the new king of nuclear power?

41:16 Wrapping Up

✍️SHOW NOTES

Part 1 - DALLE-2 "Secret" Language

-- 🔬Giannis Darris twitter https://twitter.com/giannis_daras

-- 🧵Giannis' twitter thread summarising the findings https://twitter.com/giannis_daras/status/1531693093040230402

-- 🎨DALLE-2 artwork https://twitter.com/dalle2pics

-- 🧠Open AI https://openai.com/

-- 🗣️Facebook's failed experiment https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/facebook-artificial-intelligence-ai-chatbot-new-language-research-openai-google-a7869706.html

Part 2 - We've Forgotten how to build Nuclear

-- ⚛️World Nuclear - https://world-nuclear.org/

-- 🥖Nuclear Power in France - https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx

-- 🌭Nuclear Power in USA - https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-t-z/usa-nuclear-power.aspx

-- ⚡Chernobyl Miniseries - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(miniseries)

-- 🌊Fukushima Disaster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster

-- 🍚Nuclear Power in China - https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/china-nuclear-power.aspx

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Tom and Elliot discuss some of the more questionable signs that we might be in a recession and new work increasing Vitamin D in tomatoes using genetic modification with CRISPR.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 Intro

00:02:55 This Week's Topics

00:06:54 Topic 1 Bizzare indicators of recession

00:12:58 Hemline Index

00:18:55 R-Word Index

00:22:08 Men's Underwear Index

00:31:42 Bonus Index List

00:40:05 Stripper Sentiment

00:41:23 Actual Recession Indicators

00:44:54 Topic 2 CRISPR Super Tomatoes

01:03:44 Wrapping Up

✍️SHOW NOTES

Part 1 - Stripper Things

-- Original tweet from @Reversecowgirl69 - https://twitter.com/botticellibimbo/status/1527390388167659528

-- Skyscraper Index - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index

-- Hemline Index - https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/24/archives/probing-the-markets-depths-still-lower-prices-for-stocks-seen-by.html

-- "R-Word" Index - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2001/04/05/the-r-word

-- Men's Underwear Index - https://bikashkampo.com/the-underwear-theory-of-economic-growth/

-- Champagne Index - https://www.liv-ex.com/news-insights/indices/

-- Bridgwater Capital Frothiness - https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/ray-dalio-stock-market-bubble

Part 2 - CRISPR Tomatoes

-- Biofortified tomatoes provide a new route to vitamin D sufficiency https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-022-01154-6

-- Nature Plants https://www.nature.com/nplants/editors

-- What is CRISPR? https://www.newscientist.com/definition/what-is-crispr/

-- Co-Inventor of CRISPR, Emmanuel Charpentier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle_Charpentier

-- Co-Inventor of CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna

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Tom and Elliot discuss Deepmind's new GATO model and an article looking at the speed of human progress and whether this century will be history's most important.  

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:53 What are we drinking  
05:42 Topic 1 Deepmind's GATO  
29:47 Topic 2: This Can't Go On  
58:51 Wrapping Up   

✍️SHOW NOTES
Part 1 - DeepMind's GATO model
-- DeepMind's GATO model - https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent
-- Reinforcement learning - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning
-- Gradient descent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent
-- DeepMind's new GATO makes me fear humans will never achieve AGI - https://thenextweb.com/news/deepminds-astounding-new-gato-ai-makes-fear-humans-will-never-achieve-agi 

Part 2 - Speed of Human Progress
-- This Can't Go On - https://www.cold-takes.com/this-cant-go-on/
-- The most important century - https://www.cold-takes.com/most-important-century/  

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Tom and Elliot discuss how AI metrics get used and abused and a paper looking at how to understand things.  

Part 1
-   How to Understand Things by Nabeel - https://nabeelqu.co/understanding
-   Not Overthinking podcast episode that discusses Nabeel's article - https://notoverthinking.com/how-to-understand-things-2/
-   Visual image of "Bag of words" and Natural Language Processing -https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1278008507044937728/photo/1
-   Decision tree analysis for house prices - I could not find this one, sorry folks
-   The Sequences from Less Wrong -https://www.readthesequences.com/Book-I-Map-And-Territory
- Modernist bread - https://modernistcuisineshop.com/products/modernist-bread 

Part 2
-   Concepts we covered; accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, AUC, prevalence, prior probability, positive predictive value, the negative predictive value
-   The Metric Matrix - https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-remember-all-these-classification-concepts-forever-761c065be33
-   Ibis -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis
-   Bin Chicken - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dYWhkSbTU  Ibis Photo: By JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/)
- Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18800827 ROC Image: By cmglee, MartinThoma - Roc-draft-xkcd-style.svg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109730045 

00:00 Intro  
01:04 What are we drinking  
04:47 How to Understand Things  
06:44 The smartest people aren't the quickest to answer  
09:23 Part 1 - Not Giving Up  
13:22 When to go deep on a topic  
22:08 Asking Dumb Questions  
29:52 Life update post paper  
32:31 AI metrics and which ones to use  
46:21 Sensitivity and Specificity Mistakes

Tom and Elliot discuss a meta-analysis of how to leave time between problems to help solve them and a DEA investigation into online prescription services for ADHD. 

Links Mentioned 

- Does Incubation Enhance Problem Solving? A Meta-Analytic Review
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24001208_Does_Incubation_Enhance_Problem_Solving_A_Meta-Analytic_Review
- Plan, Do, Learn - My admittedly hardcore work routine
- https://www.indiehackers.com/post/plan-do-learn-my-admittedly-hardcore-work-routine-1fb500959f
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule - Paul Graham - http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
- History of Water Fluoridation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation#History
- http://examine.com/
- "Good is the enemy of great"—Good to Great by Jim Collins - http://www.tomkwhite.com/good-is-the-enemy-of-great
- Warbreaker—Brandon Sanderson - https://www.brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-introduction
- Ali Abdaal interviews Brandon Sanderson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPsEF511Vw 00:00 

00:00 Introduction and Rambles
02:06 This Week's Topics
04:19 What We're Drinking
07:20 Blend 43 and High School Jobs
10:17 The Science of Problem Solving
12:51 Does Incubation Help?
18:12 Incubation and Ego Depletion
23:11 Time on Problem vs Time Incubating
25:25 Experiments and Video Games
38:39 The Morals of Online Prescriptions
58:42 Final Thoughts

Tom and Elliot discuss the absurdity of open-sourcing Twitter's timeline algorithm and what we know about the science of solving problems.  

Links Mentioned: 

- https://rs.io/the-science-of-problem-solving/

- https://tomkwhite.com

- https://elliotcsmith.com 

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Tom and Elliot discuss how grass helped horseback tribes conquer nations and different ways to look at value.   

Links Mentioned: 

- https://perell.com/note/the-counterfactual-theory-of-value/

- https://tomkwhite.com

- https://elliotcsmith.com

Tom and Elliot discuss how quickly AI might become super intelligent and how to get your best work done by spending time in a hammock.  

Links Mentioned: 

- https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/yudkowsky-contra-christiano-on-ai?s=r- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3

- lesswrong.com/ 

- http://gwern.net/   

- Hammock Driven Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

- Manager vs maker: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

- Do the real thing: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thing/)  

- Cal Newport coffee shops: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2013/08/14/deep-work-and-the-good-life/

Tom and Elliot discuss Linkedin DeepFakes and the Kano Model for classifying features.  

Apologies for the echo, we'll get that sorted for the next episode.  

Links Mentioned: 

- https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088140809/fake-linkedin-profiles 

- https://www.productplan.com/glossary/kano-model/ 

- https://twitter.com/elliot_c_smith - https://twitter.com/tom_k_white 

- https://www.maxwellplus.com 

- https://www.goodfood.com.au/eat-out/news/milk-permeate-tops-list-of-consumer-concerns-20121231-2c2dt #podcast #tech #ai #startup