Learnings from our world tour. Was truly amazing to see how many people across the world are embracing AI, and thinking with great sophistication both about today’s and future systems: https://t.co/lc19372dB0
जस्ले जति बिल्ला हानोस् तर ऋषि दाई यस्तो मान्छे हो जो निरन्तर भुईं मान्छे र लोकतन्त्रको लागी आवाज ऊठाऊँछन्। चित्त नबुझ्ने कुरो सुन्ने धैर्यता राख्छन्। हो अलि बढी ड्रम्याटीक छन् तर यिनि लोकतन्त्रको aspirations मा एकदमै बिश्वास राख्छन्। काजु खान्छन् त के भो 😊 https://t.co/qiZqjmudey
Assdreessen Horrorwitz’s finest, at it again. These are the people that y’all beg for funding, follow, praise, worship as “thought leaders”, etc. lol https://t.co/0DiSqAa1Q9
I’m happy that the Supreme Court is ending one of the most visible forms of structural/institutionalized racism in our society, perpetuated for decades by elite educational universities. #stopAsianHate
This is a big victory for the huge number of working-class/middle-class… https://t.co/a9qjo4RqBV
True story: Harvard Business School rejected me in '91. When I got the news, I checked to see if they'd cashed my $100 application fee check. They hadn't, so I did a "stop payment". When they called, trying to collect, I suggested they could learn a business lesson from this. 😂
Them: Doesn't it bother you when VC's pass on you? 🤔
Me: No, and here's why: 1. Black founders get less than scraps anyway every year. 2. The folks that have said yes keep me grinding and fired up. 3. I plan on making every single one that said no regret it in their soul. 🤷🏾♂️
Apple's next target: $3T Apple's market value is nearing the $3 trillion mark — a milestone no company has ever reached. The tech giant's shares have risen roughly 46% so far this year — worth about $900 billion — putting it in striking distance of the mark ahead of closing on Friday. The tech sector has seen a flurry of renewed optimism around the potential of artificial intelligence, with the Nasdaq up about 30% and on track for its best first half of a year since the 1980s. Apple has also benefited from a rebound in its iPhone business. .......
In early trading Friday, Apple shares were up almost 3% at $192.51, taking it past the $3 trillion mark.
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From the moment the iPhone's sleek silhouette graced our lives, Apple's market value took a quantum leap from $100 billion to a staggering ~$3 trillion. This meteoric rise has anchored Apple's position as the reigning champion, the world's most valuable company.
A star cluster in the Milky Way appears to be as old as the universe Measuring ages of ancient clusters like M92 can help resolve a puzzle about cosmic evolution ......... One of the oldest known objects in the universe is wandering around the Milky Way. ......... One of the oldest known objects in the universe is wandering around the Milky Way. ....... The team found the cluster is 13.8 billion years old, give or take 750 million years. That’s strikingly close to the best estimate of the age of the universe: a smidge over 13.8 billion years, plus or minus 24 million years
Trump, the Worst Boss You’ve Ever Had Donald Trump did not — and does not — recognize any distinction between himself and the office of the presidency. He is it, and it is him. .......... This view is as close a fundamental rejection of American constitutionalism as you can imagine — and it helps explain much of the former president’s behavior in and out of office. It is why he could not abide any opposition to anything he tried to pursue, why he raged against the “deep state,” why he strained against every limit on his authority, why he rejected the very idea that he could lose the 2020 presidential election and why he decided he could simply take classified documents to his home in Florida. ...... For Trump, he is the president. He is the government. The documents, in his mind, belonged to him. .......... Of course, business owners have always been a critical part of state and local Republican politics. The nation’s state legislatures and county boards of supervisors are full of the proprietors of family-owned car dealerships, fast food franchises, construction companies, landscaping businesses and regional distribution firms. And in fact, many of the most visible and important families in conservative politics have their own family firms, albeit supersized ones: the Kochs, the DeVoses, the Crows and the Trumps. ............ No longer content to run government for business, the Republican Party now hopes to run government as a business. ........... government as the fief of a small-business tyrant.
On giving AI eyes and ears AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize. ........ Over the past seven months, AI has come to mean chatbots. All of the web interfaces of the big Large Language Models (Bard, Bing/ChatGPT, and Claude) started as chatbots, and that has shaped our popular understanding of what AI can do. It anthropomorphizes AI as “someone” you can talk with, and it makes us think that AIs can only communicate via text. ........ the multimodal capability of Bing, which uses GPT-4 in creative mode. Everyone is likely to get this feature for free in the next four weeks. And it really does radically change what AI can do. ........ What multimodal AI does is let the AI “see” images and “understand” what it is seeing. I had some fun with this by uploading a recent meme (and thus one that would not be in the training data of the AI) with a little bit of image manipulation to make sure Bing couldn’t find the image by searching for it. The AI not only accurately described the scene in the meme but read the text in the image, and even explained why the meme was funny. ............ Bing Image Creator (which uses OpenAI’s DALL-E)..... An important thing to note is that I did essentially nothing beyond the first prompt, other than feeding it its own results. The result was self-improvement, as the AI developed and refined an idea that combined visual elements, research, and a sense of style. The result is that the AI can now build and refine prototypes using vision, a large increase in capabilities. And this is just the start. As AI can observe and comment on the world around it, we will see all sorts of new uses emerge............ An often-overlooked OpenAI product is Whisper, a voice-to-text system that is very, very good ......... but I also had GPT-4 act as a real-time virtual VC, using voice recognition on the pitches and prompting it give VC-like feedback. ......... It was incredibly easy to do, and did not require any equipment or additional expense. I was able to sit in the front row of class and record the pitches directly with the ChatGPT app on my phone, it captured everything extremely well. At the end of each pitch, I just added a simple prompt: You are a seed stage venture capitalist who evaluates startup pitches. Evaluate the following pitch from that perspective and offer 4 positives and negatives, as well as what you think about the pitch overall as an investor. .......... Those results were of high quality, and the VC in the room was impressed. .......... the ability to get feedback live to verbal presentations is an exciting one with lots of teaching implications. You can now get instant feedback from any simulated individual you want to any talk you want to give. ............ Connecting AI to the internet made it much more powerful. Giving AI the tools to write and execute code made it much more powerful. And, now the capabilities to watch and listen are going to do the same. AI doesn’t just advance because of new fundamental models, like going to GPT-5, it advances when it is given the tools to operate in the real world. Jobs that require visual or audio interactions felt insulated from AI, but now they are not ............ AI will be able to play a more active role in the real world by observing and listening. The implications are likely to be profound, and we should start thinking through both the huge benefits and major concerns today. .
Here's my conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) about the positive role of AI and technology in the recent history and future of human civilization. This was fascinating and fun! https://t.co/XQdkfhNI4npic.twitter.com/WYKeF1trYt
The ambitious mind can view progress in binary terms:
• I don’t have an hour to lift, so I shouldn’t go. • I don’t have 4 hours for deep work, so I shouldn’t start. • I don’t have 30 minutes to call mom, so I shouldn’t call.
America’s childcare system is on the brink of collapse due to lack of funding. My bill will lower childcare costs to $10 dollars a day to help families and restore our childcare industry. pic.twitter.com/esZbFDnHkD
Avoid These 10 Common Writing Mistakes To Build Your Twitter Audience. The difference between the roaring successes and the majority dropouts? High impact writing. The ability to clearly communicate a message, in a way that builds an audience and gets them excited about becoming your customer. Learning how to write, and applying your skills to scripts, tweets, articles and newsletters is the single biggest investment you can make in your career as a creator and your personal brand. ......... Kieran Drew quit dentistry to become a writer, and now shares what he learns as he builds his creator business. With 160,000 Twitter followers (having only opened his account in August 2020) and over 20,000 subscribers to his Digital Freedom newsletter ........... “One big idea, one captivating story, one core emotion, one core benefit, one call to action.” Drew believes that “specificity is the secret.” ........... “The road to hell is paved with adverbs,” said Stephen King. .......... Avoid words such as really, quickly, rarely, and so on. If a word ends in -ly, it’s not your friend. “Use them as an opportunity to swap out for bigger and bolder language.” Your message will be stronger, less fluffy, and more memorable to readers........... To save serious headaches, see if your sentence passes “the zombie test,” which goes like this: “If you can add ‘and by zombies’ to the sentence, it’s passive. If you can’t, it’s active.” This is the difference between “The world was rocked by Kieran (and by zombies)” and “Kieran rocked the world (and by zombies).” You want the latter, and so does your audience. .............. “First draft fast, second draft slow, one week buffer.” Simple. “Leave time between your drafts, and schedule content one week ahead.” ........... The internet shows you the opposite.” Instead of trying to sound well-educated, “distil core ideas down to their simplest form.” Be clear instead of clever. It makes you easier to consume, instantly memorable, and more than pays off long term........... Add line breaks to break up your paragraphs, use snappy sentences, bullet points and white space. “The secret is to be easy on the eyes.” ......... “Cut a third from your draft before publishing. People are busy. Write like it.” Even if you think what you’ve written cannot possibly be cut down, give it a go. Keep chopping until it’s a third shorter and much punchier. You won’t even remember what you cut out. ............ Remove fluffy phrases like “I think that,” “it’s possible that,” “you could,” and “probably.” Don’t be afraid to take your stance. ........ “Don’t be the guru, be the guide”
When Doctors Use a Chatbot to Improve Their Bedside Manner Despite the drawbacks of turning to artificial intelligence in medicine, some physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patients. ........ On Nov. 30 last year, OpenAI released the first free version of ChatGPT. Within 72 hours, doctors were using the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. ......... Most surprising to Dr. Lee, though, was a use he had not anticipated — doctors were asking ChatGPT to help them communicate with patients in a more compassionate way. ........ In one survey, 85 percent of patients reported that a doctor’s compassion was more important than waiting time or cost. In another survey, nearly three-quarters of respondents said they had gone to doctors who were not compassionate. And a study of doctors’ conversations with the families of dying patients found that many were not empathetic. ............. Enter chatbots, which doctors are using to find words to break bad news and express concerns about a patient’s suffering, or to just more clearly explain medical recommendations. ..........
the help he and other doctors on his staff got from ChatGPT to communicate regularly with patients.
......... He asked his team to write a script for how to talk to these patients compassionately. “A week later, no one had done it,” he said. All he had was a text his research coordinator and a social worker on the team had put together, and “that was not a true script,” he said. So Dr. Pignone tried ChatGPT, which replied instantly with all the talking points the doctors wanted. ........... The ultimate result, which ChatGPT produced when asked to rewrite it at a fifth-grade reading level, began with a reassuring introduction ......... “Doctors are famous for using language that is hard to understand or too advanced,” he said. “It is interesting to see that even words we think are easily understandable really aren’t.” .......... The fifth-grade level script, he said, “feels more genuine.” ............ “Most doctors are pretty cognitively focused, treating the patient’s medical issues as a series of problems to be solved,” Dr. White said. As a result, he said, they may fail to pay attention to “the emotional side of what patients and families are experiencing.” .......... In long, compassionately worded answers to Dr. Moore’s prompts, the program gave him the words to explain to his friend the lack of effective treatments .......... It also suggested ways to break bad news when his friend asked if she would be able to attend an event in two years .......... for a doctor to admit to using a chatbot this way “would be admitting you don’t know how to talk to patients.” .......... It’s time-consuming to read the letters of referral and medical histories and then decide whether to grant acceptance to a patient. But when he shared that information with ChatGPT, it “was able to decide, with accuracy, within minutes, what it took doctors a month to do,” Dr. Kohane said. ............ Dr. Richard Stern, a rheumatologist in private practice in Dallas, said GPT-4 had become his constant companion, making the time he spends with patients more productive. It writes kind responses to his patients’ emails, provides compassionate replies for his staff members to use when answering questions from patients who call the office and takes over onerous paperwork. ......... It was the sort of letter that would take a few hours of Dr. Stern’s time but took ChatGPT just minutes to produce. ...... After receiving the bot’s letter, the insurer granted the request. .
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🚨🆕️ Imp: Zoho is building its own large language model (LLM), similar to OpenAI's GPT and Google's PaLM 2 models. The project is being overseen by @svembu, and is being worked on by the company's R&D team in India.@deepsekharc reports https://t.co/7CxvajmzSx
— Chandra R. Srikanth (@chandrarsrikant) June 14, 2023
Kind of hilarious that when money was virtually free people were blowing it on ad spend and subsidizing delivery apps, and now that capital is extremely expensive there’s a technological breakthrough that requires insane amounts of hardware investment to play ball
1/ The market is changing so quickly -- so much learning comes through osmosis speaking to others (both strangers and friends), and often times spontaneously
My favorite point from @mattcharris's latest article: while there's a lot of discussion on the threat of hallucination in genAI chatbots... banks should actually fear chatbots telling the truth! 'Don't invest your money in my bank. Our rates are worse than X competitor!'👏 https://t.co/gDR1HPpSZz
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 14, 2023
Someone’s assistant just told me in scheduling a coffee meeting that the person doesn’t actually drink coffee, only Diet Coke. Believe it or not, you don’t actually have to order coffee at coffee meetings! 🤣
Remember. Russia's rehabilitation of Stalin and Stalinist policies require united opposition from the free world once again. Ukraine is the front line of a fight that demands attention from all. https://t.co/egQBeLHnrZhttps://t.co/cY56fYD4fA
I think Putin already knows this, and his current military goal is simply a prolonged stalemate. He can't win; if he pulls out, he might be the victim of a coup; but if he digs in he might be able to prolong the war till he dies of natural causes.
In studying the great characters the world has produced, I dare say, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out ......https://t.co/0jlFV2JGB2pic.twitter.com/kZPs8vo0GV
A very strong call from #Estonia's Parliament to break Russia's cycle of aggression and establish a special international tribunal under the auspices of the UN General Assembly.
It's the first time a national parliament has adopted such a statement but I believe not the last. https://t.co/pAWkOG6r26
So. You are looking at the new John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard. Effective July of last year. It is one of a small number of endowed professorships for tenure-track faculty. pic.twitter.com/rm2YSVlsAu
— Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (@sarahelizalewis) June 14, 2023
All sufficiently organized countries can reliably teach you the basics, but none can reliably figure out what you should work on. You have to do that for yourself.
I had invited him as a guest for the TV talk program Pairavi Defending the defenseless in 2011. He was shooting in Pokhara. He came to Kathmandu took part in the debate and left for Pokhara. On a parting note he said , every person needs to speak for Dalits - a real mahanayak ! pic.twitter.com/pG3DSY4eCt
— Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) June 15, 2023
Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted a future where a new virus would become the #1 infectious disease killer of children and that medical leadership would decide the vaccine for this virus is NOT important for kids, and NOT promote it. 🤯https://t.co/kFDPU9w9MO
— Dr. Lisa Iannattone (@lisa_iannattone) June 15, 2023
Since @JoeBiden cannot and should not talk about Trump's indictment for violating the Espionage Act. But if other Democrats don't push back on Trump's disinformation, he will succeed in framing things on his terms https://t.co/pzeMQtNiS9
— Lars for President (@LibertarianLars) May 24, 2023
How to value your seed-stage startup: Start at $10m
Did YC? +10m Product has revenue? +20m Founder ex-FAANG? +50m AI startup? +90m Ex-OpenAI / Anthropic +100m Founder sold previous company? +100m Authored a famous AI paper? +500m Crypto but added AI to the name? +1B
My partner Ryan (whom I am marrying next week ❤️) wisely stays off social media, so allow me to be his temporary avatar. He’s been teaching himself woodworking. This is the first piece of furniture he’s built with his own hands: a walnut credenza in midcentury modern style 😍 pic.twitter.com/fuMh2HjUFX
"Startups are bought, not sold" is one of the biggest value-destroying myths in VC.
Founders can and should lay the groundwork for a sale years in advance by proactively reaching out to and meeting with potential acquirers. Don't wait to be "discovered" by corporate M&A teams.
In a great (& destructive) irony, Mechanical Turk is just AI, now.
The MTurk crowdworking platform is a major place for researchers (and companies) to get humans to do small tasks & experiments. But this paper finds 33-46% of Turkers use LLMs to do tasks. https://t.co/MMO15yYMgjpic.twitter.com/N0B5f6dxOY
Amnesty: "We call on the UK to refrain from extraditing Julian Assange, for the US to drop the charges, and for Assange to be freed” @amnestyhttps://t.co/GlWuuUBeOD
"We cannot seem to do what other countries think is easy, while we’ve happily decided to do what other countries think is impossible." Really appreciated this essay by @aaronecarrollhttps://t.co/SORJCVeEQy
