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This article is essentially a damaging self-fulfilling prophecy camouflaging as analysis. The world is full of turnarounds, and stories where "mistakes" turn out to be happy accidents: "maybe so, maybe not."

if you're into these sort of things, check out "Hainbach" on Youtube.

GPTs are fairly limited right now, but that doesn't mean you can't build fun things composably on top of them...

I - a non technical ignoramus who can't code - made a "universal retro game console" on it on a Friday night:

https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1723297340306469371

In order to play, you first prompt up a generative game cartridge on glif.app (FD: I'm a co-founder): https://glif.app/@fab1an/glifs/clotu9ul2002vl90fh6cmpjw0

Like, "tokyo dogsitter simulator". Glif will generate the "cartridge" - an image - that you paste into the GPT to play: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-3p94K4Djb-console-gpt

(you can also browse thousands of games that users have already made and play any of them in the GPT!)

Phones and photography are banned in many Berlin clubs - they either lock your phone away at the entrance or put a sticker on the camera. That's why you barely see any footage from inside Berghain anywhere...

I've been thinking a lot about what constitutes "AI-native". In this "blog", I'm exploring this question by turning the blog post itself into something you can prompt and change as you read it.

The described step function changes are super apt and mostly overlooked by the pure hype crowd (although the step functions enabled by AI should really be what the main hype ought to be about!)

That said, once you get into the step function changes, the GPT-wrapper accusation might quickly become akin to a "AWS-wrapper" one, with traditional moats getting more important than AI-native ones.

We've had internet-enabled businesses without technical moats (but very real other moats, be it UX, social platform effects or a great b2b sales process) for the longest time, and might just see the same thing play out in AI native land

The way the author summarizes his own study in this thread borders on misinformation. You could actually take their findings and write the opposite headline, which would more accurately reflect their actual research results:

"Critics claim that models such as Stable Diffusion act like modern collage tools, recreating copyrighted and sensitive material.

Yet, our new paper shows that this behaviour is exceedingly rare, recreating copies in less than 0,00006% of 175M test cases."

Hoping for a quick sane ruling here. The whole thing is written in a way that clearly isn't interested in the fundamental reality of the technology, and calling it a "collage tool" is just manipulatively wrong.

What exactly are you struggling with? The main challenge with Midjourney is to open up a broader style pallete, while the out of the box vanilla results are usually amazing in v4.

It's surprising to see that there are liberal proponents of this. You don't have to be a raging libertarian to see the risks of unlocking this much financial reach for governments. We (in the West) may now mostly live under reasonable governments, but there's obviously no guarantee that this won't change (including towards your <current political opponents>), and implementing social credit score systems and other dystopian things would be much easier under CBDC than it currently is?

amazing work!

Curious how you cloned the voices - tortoise? I've previously tried Herzog, but couldn't quite train the German accent...

I guess in the case of Oracle, the answer is most likely "a lawyer" :D

This is a GREAT resource, thanks for posting.

I feel the advent of GPT-3 / Codex and the power that comes with it has been surprisingly underestimated - maybe because the folks who would benefit most from it (people who don't write code, like myself) haven't really caught up with it, while the ones using it (mostly people who do write code) maybe don't see the immediate benefits as much (and maybe are a little bit concerned about what this will mean to their economic position in all this...?)

I've played around a ton with simple GPT-3 code over the last few weeks and am in total awe of the possibilities this opens up to folks like me (who don't write code)

E.g. I had GPT-3 write me app script integrations of itself (!) and stablediffusino into a Google Sheet, allowing me to build a massive sandbox playground for various prototyping experiments.

Here's a thread on that process if you're curious: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1577416649514295297

If I bought a point and shoot, it would probably the Ricoh GR series. Super classic format and amazing sensor + lense.

I feel that NFT pricing exuberance (or lack thereof) is distracting both critics and even fans from the core innovation here - 1. the capacity to signify a digital original and 2. to decentrally organize ownership (though it's more like possession) of these items.

The ultimate question for crypto as a whole is whether the mass market wants digital possession that transcends a single centrally managed database. Personally am convinced we'll get there, but the onboarding mustn't happen through speculation, but specific unique utility, mostly interoperability/composability.

Here’s why: https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1565726070963408896...

That said, SALT will be 100% open to anyone, regardless of whether they’re using crypto or not

The pace of the OS development around Stable Diffusion is nothing but mindblowing, and I can't wait to see what we'll be able to to do in just 6 months from now.

The possibilities for non-skeuomorphic media format is pretty insane, especially once we get into animation territory.

I've been using Midjourney and SD to create a sci-fi filmverse called SALT, here's some details about how I put together, including all available "episodes": https://twitter.com/fabianstelzer/status/1565085199322456069

I think most are vastly underestimating the impact of Synthetic AI media - this is at least as big as the invention of film/photography (century-level shift) and maybe as big as the invention of writing (millenia-level shift). Once you really think through the consequences of the collapse of idea and execution, you likely to tend think the latter...

What we're seeing now are toy-era seeds for what's possible - e.g. I've been making a completely Midjourney-generated "interactive" film called SALT: https://twitter.com/SALT_VERSE/status/1536799731774537733

That would have been completely impossible just a few months ago. Incredibly exciting to think what we'll be able to do just one year from now..