togelius · TEXXR

I asked QvQ to reason about this picture of my son and me in a café and it confidently proceeded to give a good description of the scene where it was in a café with its son 😂 [image]

2024-12-26 View on X

Qwen

Alibaba releases QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on “enhancing visual reasoning capabilities”, built on Qwen2-VL-72B

QVQ-72B-Preview is an experimental research model developed by the Qwen team … QwenLM on GitHub : Qwen2-VL — Introduction After a year's relentless efforts, today we are thrilled...

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Tim's team did it again! This looks like a big step forward, and I'm excited to dig into the details. Will be very interesting to compare this to the @worldlabs demo from the other day, in terms of e.g. expressivity and consistency.

2024-12-05 View on X

TechCrunch

Google DeepMind unveils Genie 2, a model that can generate 3D worlds from a single prompt image, playable by humans or AI agents using keyboard and mouse inputs

Google's Genie 2 can turn text into a playable game in real-time William J. Broad / New York Times : Google DeepMind unveils GenCast, an AI weather model that the company claims ou...

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Please just IPO already. I find it easier to deal with an openly profit-maximizing company than this sanctimonious bullshit.

2024-10-03 View on X

CNBC

Source: on top of the $6.6B in funding, OpenAI got a $4B revolving line of credit from JPMorgan Chase, Citi, and others, bringing its total liquidity to $10B+

OpenAI has a $4 billion revolving line of credit, bringing its total liquidity to more than $10 billion, CNBC has learned.

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Please just IPO already. I find it easier to deal with an openly profit-maximizing company than this sanctimonious bullshit.

2024-10-03 View on X

Axios

OpenAI raised $6.6B led by Thrive Capital, the largest VC deal of all time, valuing it at $157B, with participation from Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, and others

- Not taking part, a source confirms, is Apple, which reportedly had been in talks to invest.

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As much as I dislike the various shady finance shenanigans that people often think of when they hear “crypto”, at its core crypto is technology that makes privacy possible and censorship harder. These are very important principles. This piece is worth reading.

2024-07-18 View on X

Vitalik Buterin

People in crypto should not choose political allegiances based on who claims to be “pro-crypto”, as such politicians might go against crypto's underlying goals

Over the last couple of years, “crypto” has become an increasingly important topic in political policy …

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I think the intellectually honest approach to LLMs is to be interested in both the (sometimes astonishing) successes and the (equally astonishing) failures. There are real use cases, and real problems. Ignoring either category is foolish and dishonest. Yet, very many do.

2023-02-16 View on X

Stratechery

Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon because the AI is attempting to communicate emotions, not facts

Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn't really, really, think it was worth it.

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My considered opinion of Galactica: it's fun, impressive, and interesting in many ways. Great achievement. It's just unfortunate that it's being touted as a practical research tool, and even more unfortunate that it suggests you use it to write complete articles.

2022-11-19 View on X

MIT Technology Review

Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica three days after launch, amid criticism the large language model for generating scientific text asserts falsehoods

and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...

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The reasoning and conclusion here very much mirrors my own decision regarding my PhD research back in 2005 or so. Video games are just so much more interesting and rewarding than robotics from an AI research perspective. Welcome to the club, OpenAI. https://twitter.com/...

2021-07-17 View on X

VentureBeat

OpenAI disbands its robotics team that researched machines that learn tasks like solving a Rubik's Cube, to focus on domains that are more data-rich

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @tsimonite , @_brohrer_ , @mark_riedl , @grady_booch , @togelius , and @carnage4life Tweets: Tom Simonite / @tsimonite : Company claiming to p...

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