Author: Christian Knudsen
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My Views on ICE
I’m sorry if this is off topic or offensive to anyone, but I feel that I have to say something: ICE and the ‘powers that be’ are committing atrocious and blatantly racist acts against the people in this country. We are all immigrants, our country was founded on this very premise. There is a metal…
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Hassabis on an AI Shift Bigger Than Industrial Age – YouTube
Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, discusses the future of artificial intelligence. He believes an AI shift is underway, one that is comparable in significance to the Industrial Age. Hassabis highlights advances in foundational models, which are key to creating more sophisticated AI systems. These developments have real-world applications, from healthcare to education,…
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Is AGI More of a Democracy?
Recently Google’s DeepMind released this paper suggesting that AGI: artificial general intelligence (which OpenAI is supposedly shipping this year 😏) may NOT emerge from a single powerful monolithic model like ChatGPT, but rather from a patchwork of agents which looks more like a network of intelligent bots making collective decisions, this feels more right to…
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Nvidia “Buys” the AI Chip Startup: Groq
In order to avoid those pesky laws and regulations from getting in the way of some good old-fashioned acquisition fun, Nvidia has struck a “licensing deal” with AI Chip startup Groq founded by former Google engineer Jonathan Ross (who was the co-creator of the TPU: Google’s AI chip). Groq chips which are called LPUs, can…
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A Flywheel for Good
Jeff Bezos is known for (among other things) perpetuating Jim Collins’s metaphor of a flywheel in business. It is basically this concept in startup culture that champions a self-perpetuating business model where your growth feeds back into building out your infrastructure, which feeds back into more growth. I’m not the first to say it, and…
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Bedtime Stories: Prologue
The void cracked open, and space rushed in. The first moments were technically the most interesting. The laws of physics showed up fashionably late, but once the whole party got going, particles recombined into atoms and everything just kept expanding like some cosmic soap bubble nobody bothered to pop. Then nothing. A whole lot of…
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Leaks in the Nvidia Damn
VentureBeat had this piece about ‘Google’s TPUs reshaping AI economics’, which asserts that Google’s basically proving you don’t need to be stuck in NVIDIA’s CUDA ecosystem to play the AI game. Google’s new TPU chips are already powering their competitive LLM (like Gemini), image (like Nano Banana and Veo) and other models, this means that…
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The End of Late Stage Capitalism?
I recently watched this video where Emad Mostaque (co-founder of Stable Diffusion and former hedge fund manager) just wrote a book called “The Last Economy” where he claims that there is only 900 days left of capitalism. He claims that we are entering into “a new age where artificial intelligence turns human intellect into an…
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Interview with Dr. Fei-Fei Li (The Godmother of AI)
Dr. Fei-Fei Li is known as the “godmother of AI.” She’s been at the center of AI’s biggest breakthroughs for over two decades. She spearheaded ImageNet, the dataset that sparked the deep-learning revolution we’re living right now, served as Google Cloud’s Chief AI Scientist, directed Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, and co-founded Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered…