David Albright

New interview drop! ⚠️ Ai2 Senior Research Scientist @natolambert.bsky.social sat down with @kylelwiggers.bsky.social, Ai2’s new Comms Lead, to talk about what sets Ai2 apart from other frontier AI labs, and our role in the research community. Watch the highlights. 👇

I’ll be there 👋🏻 … April 9-11 in Las Vegas.

I've been more on the permissive side of things as far as AI art / copyright issues have gone... but this Studio Ghibli thing feels different somehow. Studio Ghibli just had this major viral / cultural moment and yet a different company got all the profits. 🤔

“Community”

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

The left absolutely had cultural dominance for most of the last couple decades. See: media, Hollywood and basically all other major cultural institutions. (And it was better when the left had it, to be clear! But there’s no sense pretending we didn’t have it.)

Do you think the Silverdale Farmer's Market knows how obvious it is their logo was made by AI? 😅

I’d heard rumors of a tiny Microsoft satellite office in Kitsap before. It’s real! I’m surprised more tech companies don’t do this for people who want a cheaper / quieter place to live but are still within occassional commuting distance of their main office.

You know what we need is an exchange marketplace like the ACA but for internet service.

I cannot waiiiiit to break up with this one particular client in the new year. Cannot wait.

It’s crazy that there are still intersections that look like this in Seattle, in 2024.

Luigi Mangione, charged with killing CEO, withdrew from a life of privilege With his credentials, he could have ended up as the CEO of one of his family’s thriving businesses. Instead, investigators suspect, he took a different path.

There’s going to be so many movies about this …

Suspect in CEO killing withdrew from a life of privilege and promise

www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

This is… new. What’s the deal with these bright lights on top of a downtown tower? Looks to be a couple blocks south of pike place market.

One of the pathologies you see in a lot of punditry/discourse is some implicit assumption that in a deep sense Democrats *should* win every election and when they don’t it shows how bad they are, or how annoying libs are of whatever. But America’s a pretty conservative place!

Happy Thanksgiving from Portland!

This sounds exactly like the Giant Asian Hornet watch group that WSDA set up. “I think I saw one” … nope.

The tree is going up today at Pike Place Market 🎄

“The Ardagh Glass Packaging plant in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley shut down temporarily in July and permanently in November. The plant, a property of Luxembourg-based Ardagh Group, laid off 245 workers.” www.kuow.org/stories/seat...

The Rapidride G-Line has made the bus connection from Colman Dock ➡️ Capitol Hill so much better.

I’ve been answering questions over on Instagram (here’s a truncated version of one answer to fit here) and here’s the truth: our country is never going to succeed if half of the population doesn’t see themselves in the future as presented by the other half. That’s where we are.

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should I start posting here? 🤔

Decoder ring had a great podcast episode about exactly this! slate.com/podcasts/dec...

yep :(