“LLMs are much better than the standard dictionary approaches to figuring out the psychological context of text, including uncommon African languages, and likely cheaper & easier-to-use as well It is approaching human levels, and is improving as models do. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1767655167283831028

“Now would be the time for archivists and librarians to begin separating out post-2022 written and visual work from what was produced before. As I saw once on Twitter, “this is the K-T boundary of information.” Anything afterwards is increasingly unlikely to be made by humans.” / X – https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1766581955905089747

How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World – The New York Times – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/ai-robots-technology.html

“Futurist Ray Kurzweil Tells Joe Rogan AI Will Achieve Human-level Intelligence by 2029 “We’re not quite there, but we will be there, and by 2029 it will match any person. I’m actually considered conservative. People think that will happen next year or the year after. I… https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1767631628917248346

“Here’s a good estimate of how fast the capabilities of LLMs have been growing: several times as fast as Moore’s Law! The compute needed to achieve the same outcome halving every 5 to 14 months, with no sign of slowing. Most gains are from bigger scale. https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1767717692608217407

“With OpenAI, Figure 01 can now have full conversations with people -OpenAI models provide high-level visual and language intelligence -Figure neural networks deliver fast, low-level, dexterous robot actions Everything in this video is a neural network: https://twitter.com/Figure_robot/status/1767913661253984474

“Ok, this is amazing. I asked Claude 3 to generate an animation of the Pythagorean Theorem and this is what it created: https://twitter.com/dr_cintas/status/1767569938217087199

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