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COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. COWEN: What’s stopping that? What’s the ultimate binding constraint? ALTMAN: We’re working on it really hard. COWEN: If you could have more of one thing to have more compute, what would the one thing be? ALTMAN: Electrons. COWEN: Electrons. Just energy. What’s the most likely short-term solution for that? ALTMAN: Short-term, natural gas. COWEN: Easing, not full solution, but easing of the constraint. ALTMAN: Short-term, natural gas.

THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS, SAMUEL

DO YOU THINK POWER PLANTS 𝘔𝘈𝘒𝘌 𝘌𝘓𝘌𝘊𝘛𝘙𝘖𝘕𝘚, SAMUEL

THEY VERY MUCH DO NOT DO THAT

Yes, but it will be a magnificent evolution to watch. 😄🙏🏻

Two diverging paths for clean fuel Fischer-Tropsch synthesis can produce liquid fuels from nonpetroleum sources

In two new Science studies, researchers report strategies to maximize the incorporation of hydrogen and carbon atoms into hydrocarbon compounds, offering sustainable routes to liquid fuel production with improved efficiency.

Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3WCdUew

…you can’t have it both ways, and expect average folks who have less science education to use this — especially during a mental health crisis, or if they’re a young person who doesn’t have a fully-formed brain themselves — and still come out of that potentially manipulative interaction in one piece.

You can argue that someone should know better than to trust a fucking app like that, but at the same time, the founders of these #AI corps are running around blithering about how these things are smarter than humans (they’re definitely NOT) and how they’re building Gods to succeed us…

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Then there’s this shit.

#AI_Sucks

All art is built on other art, but apart from the economics involved, AI has no intention, no movement of soul, or discovery of our place in universe that is driving meaning or feeling, and that guts the relevance of the work.

So yes, it would be nice to find the original artist and discover their intent, their technique, & perhaps other works that far exceed this one — or if this is some tragic AI compilation, to just find which artists it stole from to build this, so they can be credited.

I would characterize it as an average piece. Beautiful, no doubt — good use of color, blocking, and movement — but not revolutionary. But there’s a place for just rudimentary beauty, too.

…Picasso & Braque changing Cubism after going to see the new tech of movies, or how the scientific discoveries about light influenced the pointillism of the Impressionists.

If you don’t understand the giants whose shoulders you’re standing on, you’re going to have trouble making anything truly NEW.

It’s disastrous for art education of young artists, because it’s super helpful to know HOW and WHY #ArtWork morphed from this style into that style, and what was happening in the surrounding world that informed things like…

…that mistake laps the planet 85 times before a REAL curator can determine, “Nope, that’s bullpucky, it’s a Turner riffing on Japanese landscape art,” or whatever.

This is one reason why AI is so problematic, and why it’s fucking destroying search.

It puts all the art of human history into a black box blender no one can independently verify for correctness, then some underpaid tech sweatshop worker in the Third World accidentally mislabels it, and…

I know, I found that label and was just like, “Really? But how/when?” Because it’s pretty different from the bulk of He’s work. But you never know, every artist if they’re worth a shit changes direction radically over time, so who knows?

Oh, I should also add that this is why STEAM education is > STEM education.

You need BOTH Art and Science, left brain and right brain, to come up with something like that.

Right now, we have too many Silicon Valley nerds with zero Humanities education in their toolkit, and it SHOWS.

Best visual image of the sequel making process I’ve ever seen. 😄

I have a physical copy buried somewhere, because I used to post it on my desk at work, it cracked me up so much. I’ll have to find that… too funny.

…but in each successive image, the second painter behind the first painter has included the first painter painting the landscape in front of him in the image, and the third painter has the first and second painters painting in front of him in his painting.

I did not! That’s hilarious.

There was a great one along these lines a while back, that if I remember correctly was a Mike Peters Mother Goose & Grimm cartoon of the “Hollywood Production Process” where it was just 3 painters in the Hollywood Hills painting the scene in front of them…

What blew me away was #TheCOLOR that the bacteria produced, as well as the wonderfully abstract nature of the final product.

It reminded me of my own paintings.

Therefore, I am now proud to say that I paint with the skill of bacteria. I am SO DAMN AWESOME. 😄🤣😄

Three examples of Matt’s approach and #TheCOLOR this process produces.

Matt submerges prints in water collected from various locations where he takes the initial photo. After weeks of soaking, the sediments & bacteria in the water itself erode the chemical structure of the paper introducing color & sculptural undulations.

I was super impressed by Matthew Brandt, who’s workshop used to be in the Hollywood Studios lot where my old alma mater, the Gnomon School of Visual Effects was also located.

The Getty was displaying a portion of his work called “Lakes & Reservoirs“, which is the result of a #chromogenic process.

Marco Breuer’s gorgeous blue abstract

Like this #ArtWork by Marco Breuer who uses not just a chromogenic process, but then he also burns, folds, and intentionally scratches the photographic paper to build abstract, very painterly images.

Opening banner, and some works by Matt Brandt’ chromogenic shots and John Chiara’s work on Kodak Professional Endura Metallic Paper

Speaking of which, one of the most interesting exhibits I’ve seen at the Getty was the “Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing #Photography” one.

It was focused on the ‘how” of chemical, old-school photography, and how photogs were using the chemical processes to create unusually modern interpretations

Meal 1: Elderflower liquor & Champagne cocktail. Grilled albacore tataki & caviar, over a bed of daikon radish with srirachi aioli to start. Then prime New York steak (2-inches thick) with whipped potatoes, steamed vegetables, horseradish cream, and a port reduction. Meal 2: Albacore tartare with daikon radish, carrots, cilantro, masago, avocado mousse, sweet potato crisps, and togarashi mayonnaise.

(Really not kidding about the lunch up there. Some of the best meals I’ve had in L.A., frankly.)

One of my shots of the Getty from a past visit. Frankly, the buildings themselves are art.

That’s why the Getty is less my art museum, and more my church. Plus, their lunches are really good, and that monorail is hella cool.

YouTube video by Ale Cloppet Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Museum Scene HD

This entire scene in Ferris is a riff on so many great shots of people reacting to art.

Christopher Broadbent’s “Visiting At The Museum”. British schoolboys in uniform completely ignoring the art their teacher is point to on the wall, in favor of God’s latest masterpiece in a skirt.

This one by Christopher Broadbent of a group of schoolboys clearly deciding what THEY think is “art” worth gawking at (and it’s not the painting of “Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria” by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini) is another #BlackAndWhite shot in that vein that I love.

Yes, it’s amazing!

So is the one of the shepherd with his kids, or the goat lady. There are plenty of real life incidents that could serve as inspiration for a real album design and photo shoot.

Real life is always the weirdest thing in the room.

Along with the other two dudes who already had him by either arm.

I’ve no doubt that at one point, the man got actual medical training and knows the basics, but let’s be real, his focus has just been personal profit, not medicine, for DECADES.