LOL can't read this article from the Mercury News (paywall), but they don't need GenAI to answer that question.
"Why does I-80 always clog right before University Avenue in Berkeley on Saturday afternoons? What’s causing the nighttime crashes on I-280 from Meridian Avenue to McLaughlin Avenue in San Jose? And what’s the reason I-5 near Del Paso Road in Sacramento continually ranks as one of the most dangerous stretches of highway in the state?"
Here's a hint: the answer is: TOO MANY PEOPLE DRIVING CARS
Andrej Karpathy released today a tutorial for reproducing GPT-2 from scratch. OpenAI released GPT -2 in 2019, and it is a 124M parameters model. This four-hour tutorial covers setting up the GTP-2 network and then training and optimizing its parameters.
It looks like a really cool tutorial; I hope to get the bandwidth to watch it in the coming weeks!
I don't understand writing something using AI tools. For me writing is fun because of the entire process. From coming up with an idea to writing, rewriting, and editing it. AI takes the fun out of creativity.
📚✨ The Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 dazzled once again at the British Library. This year's sessions delved into themes like identity, ageing, and #AI, examining democracy, elections, and the psychology of war.
#SiliconValley#BigTech#VCs#SocialMedia#Web#AI#Capitalism: "I believe we're at the end of the Rot-Com boom — the tech industry's hyper-growth cycle where there were so many lands to conquer, so many new ways to pile money into so many new, innovative ideas that it felt like every tech company could experience perpetual growth simply by throwing money at the problem.
It explains why so many tech products — YouTube, Google Search, Facebook, and so on — feel like they’ve got tangibly worse. There’s no incentive to improve the things you’ve already built when you’re perpetually working on the next big thing.
This belief — that exponential growth is not just a reasonable expectation, but a requirement — is central to the core rot in the tech industry, and as these rapacious demands run into reality, the Rot-Com bubble has begun to deflate. As we speak, the tech industry is grappling with a mid-life crisis where it desperately searches for the next hyper-growth market, eagerly pushing customers and businesses to adopt technology that nobody asked for in the hopes that they can keep the Rot Economy alive."
I think what I resent the most about the technology we’re calling “#ai “ is that I used to be fascinated with the potential of creating actual artificial intelligence.
I grew up with #megaman , #astroboy , #startrek , and the idea that we could create artificial beings with their own sentience and hopes and creativity was inspiring. I still hope for that someday.
As it is now though, the fact we now associate the term with content scraping and mimicry is simply discouraging.
One unexpected consequence of AI is that its rise could revive demand for a liberal arts education. AI’s propensity for errors or hallucinations means an increase in demand for prompt engineers. They determine the best way to frame a question when interacting with AI-powered systems. This requires people with strong language and creative thinking skills. Like previous technologies, AI is creating new roles as well as revamping old ones."