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Elliot Smith

Findings #9

From The Web This week, there was an interesting look at how DALLE-2 handles internal representation. This thread from Giannis Daras looked at what he called DALLE-2's secret language. DALLE-2 has a secret language. "Apoploe vesrreaitais" means birds. "Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" means bugs

A look back at twenty years of writing code

In one way or another, I have been writing code for the last two decades. If I am being honest with you, dear reader, I can't pinpoint the exact time I wrote my first software, but it is close enough to twenty years to take some poetic license

Findings #8

🍅 From the Web The world seems to be on a little bit of rocky footing right now, especially when it comes to the economy. That does little to stop some amazing breakthroughs in science. This week I came across this paper from Nature Plants. Biofortified tomatoes provide a new route

Findings #7

From the web Some of the bigger news in the AI world this last week has been the release of DeepMind's new Gato model. Borrowing from the original post (linked below): The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The

Findings #6

Another week, another collection of interesting things from around the internet. This week has been a little wild across stock markets and general sentiment. I hope you're not being hit too hard. If you enjoy this, consider subscribing or sending it to a friend. From Around the Web

We are linear minds in an exponential world

I remember reading about an experiment long ago. Participants were shown a bar. This bar was supposed to represent the numbers 1 to 1,000,000. The researchers asked each participant to mark where 1,000 would appear on the line. Have a go yourself, gut feeling only. Take a

Findings #5

Hello again. Another edition of findings. I hope you're enjoying these. If you are, consider subscribing to get them straight to your inbox. From the Web First, is an article that has been on my to-read list for a while. The recent string of long weekends gave me

Findings #4

Welcome back to another week. There was a lot happening this past week, including the much-discussed purchase of Twitter. One of the promises I found particularly interesting was the promise to open source the timeline algorithm. More on that later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the web I found myself back on a

Collaborative AI as a path to AGI

Let's say you made a time machine, and the catch is you can only bring people forward from the past. You turn it on and zap a dozen people into the room from 1800. Given enough time to catch up on the language and the latest in education,

Findings #3

Hello again. This one is coming a day later than usual as I took a little time to unwind over the long weekend. I hope you all had some time to relax as well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week I was sent some interesting news on a new AI system that has