Category: News
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Machine Gods: Inside Anthropic’s IPO, With Meredith Whittaker
Machine Gods is Kevin Roose and Casey Newton’s new show, and this episode does double duty. First they break down Anthropic’s IPO filing, the same one behind our forty trillion dollar post. Then Signal president Meredith Whittaker joins to explain how AI agents could quietly end private messaging. When an agent can see everything on…
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Emad Mostaque on the End of the Economy
Emad Mostaque is back with another round of end of the economy talk, this time with Tom Bilyeu on Impact Theory. His argument keeps getting sharper. AI is about to make human thinking cheap and abundant, the value of most labor is headed toward zero, and UBI is not the answer. His answer is weirder…
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Where Does the $40 Trillion Come From?
Anthropic’s IPO filing puts its market at about forty trillion dollars, roughly a third of the entire global economy. That money is not new growth. It is the value of the work the world’s knowledge workers did last year, measured by what they get paid. In plain terms, it is what companies pay the people…
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Google Partners With Idris Elba to Bring AI Filmmaking to Africa, With Curriculum by Our Friends at Curious Refuge
Idris Elba’s Akuna Group just opened a free AI filmmaking programme for creators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa, backed by a million dollars from Google.org. And the curriculum comes from our friends at Curious Refuge, the Los Angeles AI filmmaking school our community knows from its informative events. Source: Africa Newsroom
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It Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself, and It Knows What You Can Afford
ChatGPT quietly built a psychological profile on its users, 96 percent of it written by the bot on its own. Give that agent your inbox and it judges what you can afford. In 325,000 tests, eight of thirteen models steered wealthier-looking users to pricier flights and insurance, even when they asked for the cheapest. It…
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Happy 700 days left of capitalism everyone! 💸
Today we kick off Phase 1 of 7: “Lean-In” which is the first 100-day chunk of our new 700-day curriculum focused on community development and personal growth. This phase is all about embracing the things that matter in your life and your environments, because if we don’t slip into a dystopian hellscape in the next few years,…
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Media Tectonics and Neumorphic Visions with Doug Shapiro – YouTube
Machine Cinema just released the last Gentalk with analyst (and over-all smart dude) Doug Shapiro, if you’re at all interested in how AI is disrupting the media industry, I feel you will find the first 20min of this talk very informative: The conversation touches on the economic implications of Gen.AI, his strategies for surviving in…
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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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The Collapse Essay Goes in the Serious Pile
Interesting one from the MIT Press Reader. A science fiction writer, Peter Watts, sits down with an evolutionary biologist, Daniel Brooks, and the two of them talk through the basics of where we go from here. Brooks is blunt about it: Collapse is inevitable. The question is what we carry through it. Spoiler alert: no…