Since Google I/O, all the AI Threadbois have absolutely DECLARED that ChatGPT is dethroned and Bard is the new king. 👑

But is it?

I tested Bard against ChatGPT across 5 categories and here's what I found: twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2/ First the categories:

🖋️Creative/Storytelling
🖥️ Coding (for non coders)
💡 Business ideation
🗺️ Travel planning
🔖 Research

Plenty of others that could have been tested, but these were mine.

ANOTHER insane AI news week

The blistering pace continues and this week we got a preview of what comes after ChatGPT. From multimodal ImageBind to Google I/O to text-to-3D worlds, here's everything that happened in AI this week. 👇🧵 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 𝟮/ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆

Meta open sourced ImageBind, a model that connects six different modalities - images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU or inertial measurement.

@ylecun announces

https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1656073592759623691

And attached, Zuck explains

Quietly, this was one of the biggest weeks in recent AI history

Xi Xinping, the White House, Warren Buffett all discussed AI while new research read minds, new tools stunned users and AI safety convos went mainstream

Here's everything that happened in AI last week 👇🧵 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2/ 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 & 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀:
•Midjourney v5.1 releases - a more “opinionated” version
•@StabilityAI @DeepFloydIF can actually put text in text-to-image creations
•Inflection releases Pi -a more personal AI

https://twitter.com/inflectionAI/status/1653475948036259840

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗜? "𝗪𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗡𝗼 𝗠𝗼𝗮𝘁, 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜"

A leaked note from a Google researcher argues that they're losing to open source. It's quite relevant to the state of AI.

A short thread 🧵 2/ Here's a copy of the original leak: semianalysis.com/p/google-we-ha…

Tl:DR
Google, OpenAI & ANY closed models are going to be outcompeted by open source models
Why? The tinkerers w open source tools are advancing in ways the big co's didn't think was possible and at a far faster speed

ChatGPT Code Interpreter is the latest " this changes everything" moment in AI.

A few days in and we're seeing data analysis, visualization, business strategy, academic research and paper writing & even basic video editing.

Here are 6 of the coolest examples so far 👇🧵 1. Data Analysis + Visualization - San Francisco Crime

https://twitter.com/backus/status/1652433895793516544

If you've ever been frustrated that you couldn't get real words into a generative AI image, a new open source competitor to Midjourney is going to blow you away.

Let me explain... 2/ The images above share the same prompt: "a film camera photo of a 1960s southern california beachside burger restaurant, hazy afternoon, sign that says "burger"

Midjourney's image [left] is an unbelievably cool shot...but with gibberish.

@DeepFloydIF on the right nails it

‼️From AI that can “see” photos and turn them into descriptions, recipes or even poems - to mind-bending text-to-video releases that could fundamentally change the way we tell stories, it was another stagger week in AI.

Here’s everything that happened in AI this week 👇🧵 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2/x 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝘁𝗼-𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲

•Adobe integrated Firefly with video editing - aka turn a movie shot during the day into a sunset scene with a few words.
•NVIDIA also dropped some pretty amazing research.

https://twitter.com/nonmayorpete/status/1648548301292072962?s=46&t=5Nl1EhwpFOmRdaVNr7DApg

Runways Gen2 text-to-video is here, and it's mind blowing. Truly another 0-to-1 AI moment.

Here are some of the coolest examples of a new tool that just started rolling out in beta a couple hours ago 🧵👇 2/x For a bit of background @runwayml Gen1 video-to-video was already pretty amazing. Creators could use images and video to modify other videos and produce something entirely new:

https://twitter.com/ArtByJah/status/1646332233387503621

Imagine an AI model that can:

🥘Look at an image of food and spit out a recipe
🖼️Look at an image of art and tell you who made it and how it makes people feel
🌅Look at a sunset photo and write a poem

That AI is here and it's called MiniGPT-4.

If you want to learn more about MiniGPT-4, here are a few resources.

First, the researchers who created it!

https://twitter.com/garvinchen2/status/1647770046171844609

https://twitter.com/tikgiau/status/1647767975804452864

The AI Arms Race is one of the defining features of tech companies in 2022.

In the last week alone we've had major announcements or news leaks from Amazon, Google, Adobe and more, so where does everyone stand?

Listen or keep reading pod.link/1680633614/epi… 2/x

News of Google's Project Magi broke yesterday. It's a total reimagining of the search experience that has shaped our interaction with the internet for two decades. List of ten results OUT. Chatbot interface IN.

@NathanLands with the full details

https://twitter.com/NathanLands/status/1647864974323204096

From Amazon getting in the game to AutoGPT enabling task lists that complete themselves to viral Drake songs that Drake didn't actually perform on, it was another big week in AI.

Here's everything that happened in AI this week 👇🧵 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2/x 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀
•Amazon Bedrock lets devs build on models like Stability AI and @AnthropicAI and starts previewing their Titan FM language model
•@StabilityAI releases latest update Stable Diffusion XL which improves photorealism and improves text in images

✅Task lists that can complete themselves
🧠Businesses that can start themselves
💻Apps that can code themselves

The undisputed Big Thing™ in AI this week was AutoGPT.

It is mind blowing, for sure. But is it also dangerous? Let's talk about it. 🧵 2/x So what are we talking about?

Last week @SigGravitas introduced AutoGPT, which "chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set."

It exploded.

https://twitter.com/SigGravitas/status/1646117442031349761

‼️🚨BIG NEWS!‼️🚨

The Breakdown is expanding and is now...The Breakdown Network.

Our first spinoff show is BITCOIN BUILDERS - all about the entrepreneurial and creative energy swirling around #Bitcoin, Lightning and freedom tech more broadly - and is live NOW!

Thread time 🧵 2/x I've always said that @BreakdownNLW is about "big picture power shifts."

Those shifts are coming hard & fast, which is why we're launching The Breakdown Network to build shows that dive into different areas of important transformation.

Our tagline is "Change Explained."

One of the most compelling ideas I've heard lately is the idea that the Fed's forward guidance is effectively useless owing *not only* to questions of Fed credibility, but because of the broader breakdown in consensus reality.

If that's true, it has BIG implications.

Quick 🧵 This idea has been put most acutely by @kofinas.

In episode 299 of @HiddenForcesPod he and @JonAskonas put scholarly weight behind a feeling we can all recognize: that we no longer live in a world where there is one "truth," but a never-ending competition b/n competing truths

Bloomberg reporting that Genesis is preparing to file for bankruptcy.

Is this:

A) Bullish - finally some resolution on one of the big overhanging issues

B) Bearish - its a bankruptcy that will mean more capital locked up and more confidence lost

? To the extent this impacts your opinion

https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1615782198459646009

On this momentous night in #Bitcoin history, I’ve see a number of people ask “how could this possibly not cause the price to go up?”

My theory: individual events don’t impact bitcoin’s price, at least, not really and not alone.

🧵time! Bitcoin markets seem driven by big, structural narratives that create raison d’etre for new entrants to participate.

We’ve been in one of those since March 2020: money-printer-go-brrr-means-inevitable-inflation-means-institutions-get in here.

Alright since no one else seems to have done it, here's the running thread of laser eyed #Bitcoin politicians from Central and South America 👇 Kicking it off with @nayibbukele of El Salvador

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1401391067350581248

This new crop of critics pointing to the history of technology to explain why #bitcoin will inevitably be disrupted by something newer have totally missed that the most powerful forces in social technologies are not product features, but *network effects* “Hurrrr but MySpace and Facebook.”

Yeah, and it’s been 15+ years since Facebook won. It has 2,800,000,000 users. Do we really think that nothing technologically better has come along in 15 years?

No, it’s the network effects.

THE 2020 YEAR IN #BITCOIN

Ah yes, New Year's Eve. A time to reflect, look forward, celebrate, and throwback Long Reads Sunday style with the BEST BITCOIN TWEETS OF 2020.

Strap TF in, it's time for a thread!

👇👇👇👇 2) Let's start by going back to February.

Even before the full impact of COVID-19 kicked in, bitcoiners were thinking big about the epoch shifts we were in the midst of.

https://twitter.com/hansthered/status/1231268307614883840

Belarus is the most interesting story people aren't paying attention to:

-26 year dictator arrests popular YouTuber who plans to run for prez
-YouTuber's wife runs on promise to hold real elections 6 months later, gets huge support
-Dictator claims to win 80% of vote...

(cont.) -Massive demonstrations begin, not just in the capital but in 20+ cities around the country
-Police are INCREDIBLY brutal. 6000+ arrested. Widespread reports of torture. Horrifying audio evidence of torture all over the internet.
-Some police shown renouncing dictator.

(cont)

Welcome to the Macro Media Index: The most important macro content for June 2020.

This was an INSANE month. Social unrest and market disconnect. The Hertz bankruptcy bet.

If you want to understand the macroeconomic story right now, this thread is for you.

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