good thread, though I disagree with some of the fundamental assumptions.
strong AI is going to be compute bottlenecked. otherwise everyone wouldn't be racing for flops. there's a lot of capabilities that only make sense at low cost and those will happen in distilled models
there's also a lot of cases and what you do not want general intelligence for automation!
we already have a society where many operations are overseen by creatures that would rather be thinking about the nature of their own consciousness or whatever. Don't create billions more
Nov 27, 2023 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
Asking DALL-E to make images of the archetypal resident of a city and then make it more and more archetypal. here's San Francisco
New York. That is indeed a big apple
Mar 21, 2023 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
Serious moment: @OpenAI has decided to shut off access to code-davinci-002, the most advanced model that doesn't have the mode collapse problems of instruction tuning.
This is a huge blow to the cyborgism community
@OpenAI The instruct tuned models are fine for people who need a chat bot. But there are so many other possibilities in the latent space, and to use them we need the actual distribution of the data
Nov 22, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Utopians are misunderstood
i mean, the word "utopian" is generally not understood to mean the same thing as the word Utopian when i use it. i use a specialized definition from a sci-fi novel. but also, the Utopians in that novel are misunderstood, by the societies around them, and they always have been
May 25, 2021 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
I think the reason I'm obsessed with CLIP is because it's hard evidence for unified meme theory
unified meme theory states that the "meme", defined as the transmissible unit of human thought, and defined has a picture with some words on it that gets copied on the internet, are not different.
New York. That is indeed a big apple 
1 subscribed