The Verge
‘An engine for the imagination’: the rise of AI image generators
17+ min · · An interview with AI image generator CEO David Holz · Shared by 3598, including John Hagel, James Young, Jason Baldridge, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Zoe Scaman, Stephanie A Kowalski, Yves Mulkers, 👨✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌, Katja Evertz, Marcus Borba, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Bill Johnston, Matt Mullenweg
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AI Canon | Andreessen Horowitz
11+ min · · A curated list of resources we’ve relied on to get smarter about modern AI, including generative AI, LLMs, and transformer models. · Shared by 1040, including Bill Johnston, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Alexander Seifert, Mario Clemente, Jay Rosen
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
20+ min · · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. · Shared by 1030, including Vicki Davis, Mario Klingemann💧💦, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Sam Altman, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Leo Polovets, Soumith Chintala, Ilya Sutskever, MIT CSAIL, Jane Manchun Wong, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ser Jeff Garzik, Josh Wolfe, Randy Olson, Kevin Kelly, Chris Messina, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, danabramov.bsky.social, Vinod Khosla, Carla Gentry 🎶
The Verge
AI Is a Lot of Work
20+ min · · How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions. · Shared by 627, including Dan Whateley, Brian Ahier, Nicolas Babin, Florian Graillot, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Amy Webb 🤷🏻♀️, Brian Stelter, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Lynn Cherny, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, John Hagel, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Kyle Chayka, Prof. Sally Eaves, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, justin caouette
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless
5 min · · “Playing with GPT-3 feels like seeing the future,” Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco–based developer and artist, tweeted last week. That pretty much sums up the response on social media in the last few… · Shared by 452, including Matthias Lampe, Samuel Hu, Martin Ford, Howard Getson, Albert Ràfols, Neil Hart 💙, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Bob E. Hayes, Gian Klain, Jessel Sookha, Gabriele, Jansnet, Kirk Borne, Randy Deutsch, Luciano Floridi @lucianofloridi@mastodon.world, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Bill Johnston, l. ones, Rick King
OneZero
How to Destroy ‘Surveillance Capitalism’
Summary · · Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism — with surveillance. Here’s how to beat it. · Shared by 440, including Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Thomas Pleil, Matthias Lampe, Gerd Leonhard, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Bill Johnston, luis antónio santos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Psymposia, Tim Bray, Christian Surchi, Mathew Ingram, Josep M. Ganyet, Kyle Bunch, getAbstract, Michael Seemann, jérémie Flück, Ines Bieler, anildash.com
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The New Business of AI (and How It’s Different From Traditional Software)
14+ min · · We have noticed in many cases that AI companies simply don’t have the same economic construction as software businesses. At times, they can even look more like traditional services companies. · Shared by 400, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Mike Troiano, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Matthias Lampe, Claudia Sommer, Bill Johnston, Gideonro, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Howard Getson, Oliver Ewinger, Florian Graillot, Jonathan Kogan, Gengo 🦁, Katja Evertz, Spiros Georgiadis, Francesco Corea, Birgit Schefer, Thomas Power
gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com
Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS
· Shared by 400, including ⒿⒹⒽ, Ferris Jabr, Azeem Azhar, Balaji, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Cameron Sinclair, Chris Hadfield, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Christopher S. Penn, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, George J Huba PhD, Charles Arthur, Emin Gün Sirer🔺, francesc, Tom Muller, Avinash Kaushik, Ben Goldacre, Oliver Christie, Paul Kedrosky, Carl Zimmer
nature
Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power
3 min · · Those who could be exploited by AI should be shaping its projects. · Shared by 362, including Joanna J Bryson, Eric Bailey, Stanford NLP Group, Gerd Leonhard, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Helen Yu, Eric Topol, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Nige Roberts-Willson, Iain Brown, PhD, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Ronald van Loon, LizNeeley, Caroline Jarrett, Steve Faulkner SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social, Rick King, Andreas Staub, Terence Mills, Bob E. Hayes, Vaughan Bell
stateof.ai
State of AI
4 min · · A report that seeks to trigger informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future. · Shared by 333, including Wolfgang Blau, Nige Roberts-Willson, Yves Mulkers, Chris Messina, Mariana Mazzucato, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Nathan Benaich, Sebastian Raschka, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Robert Scoble, Azeem Azhar, AI, Tom Vander Ark, Gerd Leonhard, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Soumith Chintala, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Florian Graillot, Martin Varsavsky, Jim Marous 💯
MIT Technology Review
What is AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out
2 min · · What is AI, exactly? The question may seem basic, but the answer is kind of complicated. In the broadest sense, AI refers to machines that can learn, reason, and act for themselves. They can make… · Shared by 331, including Allison Arieff, Sandy.Polygon, Pranav Soni, Howard Getson, Bill Johnston, Vala Afshar, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Rick King, andre hollstein, Oliver Raduner, Matthias Lampe, Nicolas Babin, Carla Gentry 🎶, Vladimer Botsvadze 🛫🌎🎙️, John Nosta, Katja Evertz, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Smita Nair Jain
rt.live
Rt Live
· We're calculating up-to-date values for Rt — the number to watch to measure COVID spread · Shared by 300, including Avinash Kaushik, Nate Silver, John Rampton, Chris Sacca 🇺🇸, Chris Messina, Balaji, Dan Cederholm, Mathew Ingram, Andrew Ross Sorkin, tylercowen, Merlin Mann, Carl Zimmer, Semil, Dan Primack, Larry Brilliant 💛💙, M.G. Siegler, Noah Smith, Brad Feld, Natalie E. Dean, PhD, John Cutler
MIT Technology Review
This startup is using AI to give workers a “productivity score”
4 min · · In the last few months, millions of people around the world stopped going into offices and started doing their jobs from home. These workers may be out of sight of managers, but they are not out of… · Shared by 298, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nicolas Babin, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Nige Roberts-Willson, caroline sinders, Thomas Power, Bill Johnston, Andreas Staub, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Esther Schindler, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Neil Hart 💙, Michael Fisher, Ronald van Loon
Stanford University
The AI Index Report – Artificial Intelligence Index
14+ min · · Shared by 286, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Gary Marcus, Sebastian Raschka, Terence Mills, Robert Scoble, Mic King, Stanford NLP Group, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, MichelleRobbins, Matteo Carbone, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ronald van Loon, Bob E. Hayes, Frank Gruber, Chris Gledhill, Sean Gardner, Stanford HAI, Yann LeCun, AI
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Who Owns the Generative AI Platform?
12+ min · · Generative AI will have a massive impact in the software industry and beyond. The goal of this post is to map out the market dynamics and business models. · Shared by 277, including Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Wilko S. Wolters, John Nosta, Howard Getson, William El Kaim, Bill Johnston, Adrian Swinscoe, Steven Sinofsky, Robert Scoble, Lillian Pierson, PE 👩🎤 GTM & Growth Queen, Prof. Sally Eaves, Dave Kellogg, Paul Roetzer, Alex J. Champandard 🌻
VentureBeat
Top minds in machine learning predict where AI is going in 2020
13+ min · · Google AI's Jeff Dean, PyTorch's Soumith Chintala, Nvidia ML's Anima Anandkumar, Kidd Lab's Celeste Kidd, and IBM Research's Dario Gil on the future of AI. · Shared by 252, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Carla Gentry 🎶, Jonathan Kogan, Ronald van Loon, Prof. Anima Anandkumar, Elinor Stutz, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, Kirk Borne, Ronald Schmelzer, Marc R Gagné MAPP, LARRY ELKAN, Kathleen Walch, Thomas Power, Bill Johnston, Gengo 🦁, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Bob E. Hayes, Chris Gledhill