I am wondering about Bluesky , Mastodon and Threads. After Mastodon I am now also trying Bluesky which "feels" nice , also the atmosphere is positive. But on a technical level I think Bluesky may be a dead end. When threads gets serious with federating/connecting to the Fediverse, together with Mastodon, Fediverse/activitypub will have more mass. Bluesky has chosen a different protocol sadly.

Any thoughts or opinions?

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #bluesky #socialmedia #threads

Ofcourse nostr:npub15dwvsprvd5wzsx3se0plmuyuw7uc386m496pgntp8v44wpl377hqpjkg2d was right when he predicted that the top foundation models would encounter diminishing returns and could be in some ways in a dead-end street on the road to "AGI". However current models with current capabilities will still cause a big revolution/disruption. NotebookLM is a good example, that works on basis of Gemini 1.5, not the best model, still the implementation/application made the difference.

#AI #garymarcus #LLM #GoogleGemini #NotebookLM #OpenAI

Meta already is aware of this but a moderately intelligent assistant inside WhatsApp could have an enormous impact, if you think about how broadly Whatsapp is used in various aspects of life by many people. 🤔

#ai #meta #agents #whatsapp

That's nice.

A curated list of Large Language Model resources, covering model training, serving, fine-tuning, and building LLM applications.

https://github.com/SylphAI-Inc/LLM-engineer-handbook

#ai #llm #opensource

Omniparser, interesting opensource, essential for AI models that want to interpret screens and user interfaces.

https://microsoft.github.io/OmniParser/

#omniparser #ai #opensource #microsoft

The stupidity of people who think we can agree with Putin about some kind of “lasting peace” in Ukraine and live happily ever after is breathtaking. Putin will never allow a sovereign and independent Ukraine with an army at it’s border.

#geopolitics #ukraine #russia #putin nostr:npub17dnlzls6u3la9zffnq9495ch6fuja3xwvyrzc6plaaxrvrqfgfksffa7ch

From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from-naptime-to-big-sleep.html

#ai #cybersecurity #google

Boring language but interesting White House memo, clearly illiustrates the risks involved with AI and that we are not dealing with some kind of hype or bubble only. "AI has emerged as an era-defining technology".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/10/24/memorandum-on-advancing-the-united-states-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence-harnessing-artificial-intelligence-to-fulfill-national-security-objectives-and-fostering-the-safety-security/

#AI #whitehouse #risks

Nice benchmark for AI models, Simple Bench.

https://simple-bench.com/

#AI #benchmarks #simplebench #llm

Let's pray for a Harris win, if only for the people in Ukraine. https://bbc.com/news/articles/cr5m6d6l7e2o

#ukraine #harris #trump #elections

Let the AI search war begin , Open AI joins the fray. Although for paying users only. In the US you have also Google AI enabled search and there is also Perplexity (my favorite) everywhere.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/31/24283906/openai-chatgpt-live-web-search-searchgpt

#ai #search #chatgpt #google #perplexity

Great must-read blog about this:

"The emphasis on human oversight as a protective mechanism allows governments and vendors to have it both ways: they can promote an algorithm by proclaiming how its capabilities exceed those of humans, while simultaneously defending the algorithm and those responsible for it from scrutiny by pointing to the security (supposedly) provided by human oversight."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-neck-in-a-noose/

#AI #humanoversight #humanintheloop

Interesting detail in this Google blog:

"We're also using AI internally to improve our coding processes, which is boosting productivity and efficiency. Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. This helps our engineers do more and move faster."

https://blog.google/inside-google/message-ceo/alphabet-earnings-q3-2024/#full-stack-approach

#AI #google #code #sundarpichai

Good article about NotebookLM, why it's so great and what you can do with it.

#AI #Google #NotebookLM

https://www.fastcompany.com/91217096/googles-notebooklm-is-one-of-the-most-powerful-use-cases-for-ai

Can AI help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation?

Fascinating stuff because it’s not only about technology but also about humans and society, mediation and deliberation.

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adq2852

#AI #habermas #deepmind #mediation #deliberation

Still very early days when it comes to "AI agents" but Anthropic shows some first prototypes. It's to extrapolate a few years from now when smart agents will be able to fully control your computer on your behalf and accomplish all kinds of tasks. Also plenty of risks.

#AI #Anthropic #agent

https://youtu.be/jqx18KgIzAE?si=WAgUHSU2P79Hux0p

NotebookLM: How Small Teams Can Achieve Outsized Results inside Big Tech.

https://creatoreconomy.so/p/notebooklm-small-teams-big-impact-ai

#ai #notebooklm

Google opensources watermarking technology.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4

#ai #opensource #watermark

No surprises here https://www.firstpost.com/tech/apple-intelligence-development-at-least-2-years-behind-industry-leaders-claims-report-13827519.html

#apple #ai

In the debat about whether AI / LLMs can reason or not it's to good to remember this quote from 1984 from Dijkstra , a dutch computer scientist,

""The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

#AI #LLM #reasoning