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Elisabeth Andrews's avatar

Mercury also had it coming 😂. I come for the intel, I stay for the jokes. Also enjoyed your recent conversation at the stock exchange. Thank you for being so generous with your insights.

Michael Amicangelo's avatar

"As dropouts overtake PhD's at the frontier " AWG delivers another verbal hand grenade lol

patrick gallagher's avatar

think how much better communications, travel and tech will work once mercury is disassembled and cannot go into retrograde!😉

Dalibor Petrovic's avatar

Alex, these Daily Updates are so good, that I started uploading them to my Personal AI Council, so that my AIs are informed about the AI developments and can advise me better. Thank you 🙏🏼

Robert Brown's avatar

A daily pleasure! Rereading priors on the odd off days. Keep ‘em coming. Thanks!

Robert Brown's avatar

I’ve been following the scene avidly from the early Drexler, Vinge, Kurzweil eras. Finally the pace is convincingly commensurate with the vision. And you have emerged as a worthy participant/chronicler! Bravissimo! 🙂👍

Steven Armstrong's avatar

Given the depth and breadth of the topics you share with us, your posts are often filled with acronyms and initialisms. Please consider asking your AI assistants to expand upon these shortcuts by including the full name of the subjects. For instance, "NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)". This would help turn head-scratching moments into learning opportunities. Thanks for all you do!

Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross's avatar

You’re welcome! I encourage any reader who isn’t familiar with a term, but wants to learn more, to ask their AI.

James Corbally's avatar

More on the medical/biotech side, please. This is the single most crucial application of AI.

What do you see as the general trends in this field, and what does a plan for LEV look like, in your opinion? How achievable is the plan?

Earl B's avatar

The updates are great! Moonshots is spectacular.

I have my own test for Ai intelligence that I use and Ai fails every time.

I ask it to draw a football field (American) from top down and it never gets it right. I use Ai everyday in coding and other stuff but maybe Ai doesn’t care about sports or football? 😏

Thanks for the updates.

James Corbally's avatar

I've gotten reasonable results from LLMs for assisting with technical issues, but don't ask it to give you a diagram. Labels pointing to nowhere, misspellings, and Escheresque hose and cable routings.

Looking forward to models that have much better visual and spatial understanding.

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I was wondering if you have any opinions or a relationship with Joscha Bach.