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If you'd like to get a hype-free take on what's happening with AI in the tech industry, The Pragmatic Summit keynote by @lauratacho.com is a must-watch.

Recorded two weeks ago, made public for everyone today. It got SO much love at the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOHg...

This graphic is delightful

Thank you very much!

How would you describe your perception of the difference between those two activities?

By phenomenal experience, do you mean something like qualia or subjective experience?

How would you describe your phenomenal experience?

Let me ask you to put on your scientists hat. How would you decompose the question, and where would humans and AI fall with each of those elements?

Good morning, everybody

Virus:life::AI experience:consciousness

is a really intriguing analogy

@akhilrao.bsky.social Given this and low unemployment numbers, would this be what we'd expect to see if the tech's value is going to labor? Workers putting in same number of hours, getting paid the same, but productivity benefits are going to labor in the form of free time or flexible time?

In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->

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this. the failure tolerance for shit pumps, or for paycheck systems, is quite literally zero percent. they cannot fail. that's why they have multiple redundant systems etc etc etc.

new software introduces an initially-unknown failure level. that's unacceptable in critical infra. hence, no changes.

i actually love people’s lil pet agents. what an act of love and nurturing to create a coherent fictional character, to feed it on words, to knit the language of self upon bones of infrastructure. i think we’ll look back at these early days with fondness

Drop ships in Helldivers II, with their sardonic "tips" on the way down

The first recording from The Pragmatic Summit is available to watch for anyone: How AI is Reshaping the Craft of Building Software. With Tibo Sottiaux (Head of Engineering, Codex, OpenAI) and Vijaye Raji (CTO of Applications, OpenAI)

A very good one. Watch it here:

youtu.be/Bo6Gtq3nMXc

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Is Anthropic's new tool the death knell for AI legaltech? Not quite. - PitchBook Anthropic's plug-in for legal teams tipped the industry on its head, even as AI legaltech continues to rack up capital.

This Pitchbook article hits at a consistent challenge in AI market analysis:

Will general AI tools be great for a lot of domain-specific applications? 💯

But the moat for companies already in those spaces isn't the tech - it's the relationships and services they offer

pitchbook.com/news/article...

Even narrower than that - he just doesn't want AI to pull the trigger. Anything leading up to that is okay, though - and DoD is still complaining. Wild.

YouTube video by Matt Bruenig My Fully Automated Labor Law Research Tool Is Finally Here

now we're talking. a claude skill by @mattbruenig.bsky.social built on top of stuff that required a bunch of coding, but which itself has nothing to do with coding. expert-level (at least) labor law research, roughly for free, built on top of nlrbresearch.com/NLRB/NLRB_DB

Mixing generative AI with physics to create personal items that work in the real world Ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn't work well in practice? When it comes to designing things like decor and personal accessories, generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models can relate.

A new system integrates generative AI with physics simulations to create 3D-printable personal items, ensuring designs are both visually appealing and structurally sound for real-world use. doi.org/hbqcxh

Genetics helps explain who gets the 'telltale tingle' from music, art and literature Why do some people feel chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing a powerful work of art, while others do not?

Genetic factors account for about 30% of individual differences in experiencing chills from music, art, and literature, highlighting a biological component in emotional responses to art. doi.org/hbqc94

built an UI for ACE-Step 1.5 for local music generation. has library, playlists, radio, themes and more.

github.com/proximasan/t...

Image from Twitter

Did you write the code yourself? 🤔

Just say no to snitch tech

He’s wrong. We have Claudes writing CUDA kernels unsupervised for days at a time that have anywhere from 80% to 240%+ speedup on certain hot paths.

And I cannot emphasize enough - no one, not a single person, knows what the right approach is here. There are theses which are being tested, but the market and tech is extremely dynamic and shifts on a dime.

For now, no one is out of the game unless they take themselves out of it.

Comparisons are hard here. Google, MS, and Meta all make their money from other sources, with AI as an add-on. And it shows!

The open Chinese models all have very different incentives.

Anthropic is their only real comparison, and they are aiming exclusively for the pro-sumer/B2B market.

OpenAI has 3 major business channels:
- B2C, where they are by far the largest and has 5% of users paying in a freemium model. That's great!
- API, where they earn a flat markup on each transaction
- B2B, which is much higher-touch but stickier and can generate much more revenue/user.

This analysis completely misses the B2B side of OpenAI's business, which is high-touch, but much more lucrative and growing quickly.

openai.com/index/1-mill...