Phil Wiser

It was so exciting to be with creators and entrepreneurs at the @runwayml AI Summit today! I had the privilege of joining a fireside chat with Cristobal Valenzuela, Runway’s CEO. We talked about my perspective on this AI moment through my startup founder and enterprise tech exec experiences. The room was full of energy, forward-thinking entrepreneurs, and visionary creators. The future is being defined right now. What an honor to be part of the discussion and community. #RunwayAISummit #GenerativeAI

Well that SORA phase was brief.

A good read to start the day. This is what we need to celebrate this year. We are blessed today to have founding fathers like George Washington. open.substack.com/pub/inpursuit/…

Federal agents claimed Alex Pretti, 37, forced their hand on a Minneapolis street Saturday morning, alleging he “violently resisted” disarmament until the officers fired “defensive shots.” Bystander footage appears to tell a different story. on.wsj.com/4rxG9IT

@hurricanenita Thank you for sharing Nita! Happy Anniversary.

Made it 🤍 I remember my first few weeks of sobriety with this vague idea of “I’ll see if I can do 10 years.” At the time, that number was PREPOSTEROUS. Might as well be a million billion years!! I thought I’d just bide my time, wait until things calmed down in my life and then everything could go back to normal. I had no concept of all the gifts sobriety would bring into my life and how much better the new normal would be! Sobriety still does not come “easily” to me. I’m by myself a lot on tour and I have easy access to anything I want on the tour bus and dressing rooms… In fact I actually called the front desk in my hotel this week and asked them to please come and remove the massive quantities of alcohol from the room’s minibar, because I knew I’d be here today, and even after all this time I still don’t want to give in to that little voice that says “you’re alone in the room, you hit your goal of 10 years, no one will know if you have a lil celebration.” It’s something that you work at quietly every day, on some days that it never crosses your mind and some days harder than others. Grateful for the support of @thejoshv through this whole journey and for my dear friends in recovery who have given me the best advice and reading lists 🤍 Sobriety can be a solitary road but it’s important to know that you don’t have to walk it alone when you don’t want to!! Celebrating here with an iced coffee walk before rehearsal. Couldn’t ask for my life to have turned out any better 🤍

PREACH! FACTS!

@BillyonBass Strange to see three of my heroes just standing there! Bummed that I missed this show.

Michael, Geezer & myself. So great to hear these guys play! True gentlemen and monster bassists🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Interesting conversation today on AI and media at #MITEmTech. This holodeck concept gets better each time I discuss it.

Geoffrey Hinton explains his concern about AI. Just made the point that these models can automatically transfer knowledge to each other... #EmTechDigital

@shellypalmer Good point on not knowing whether you are talking to a salesperson or not.

Bard, Google’s experimental conversational AI model, has faced criticism from users for its limited knowledge and responses compared to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat, both powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. To fix this, Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that Bard is going to switch from LaMDA, the large language model (LLM) that Bard is currently using, to the much bigger PaLM LLM. You know what they say: “Go big or go home.” The AI wars are real; for Google, the stakes could not be higher. Conversational AI is going to reduce web traffic, which is bad for Google. It is likely going to have a quantifiably negative impact on Google’s search business, which is even worse for Google. Alphabet’s only answer is to make Bard as good (or better) than the competition… but then they are going to have to figure out how to make up for the lost search revenue. Yesterday, Bing said it’s going to put ads directly into its GPT-4-based chatbot. I am having trouble imagining what an acceptable format for that advertising would be. Could you imagine ads showing up in the middle of a conversation while you were texting someone? I already get pissed off when Alexa starts babbling about a deal or offer when I ask it a question. Think about this… Right now, whenever you search, you are not getting the best answer; you are getting the answer with the best SEO. As conversational AI evolves, we will learn when (and when not) to use it for our information-gathering needs. Once we become confident about generative AI use cases, we’re going to lose our tolerance for advertiser-driven search. #ai #google #googlebard #openai #chatgpt #artificialintelligence

The protests in Tel Aviv today are another reminder of democracy's fragile state.

Really glad to see the battle for search come back with this new phase of AI.

🚀 I'm beyond thrilled to join the #ChatGPTPlus squad! Can't wait to unleash the full potential of @OpenAI's cutting-edge language model and have some mind-blowing conversations 🤯 #AI #LanguageModel #OpenAI"

And the 2023 Nominees are out! Please throw in a vote for Eddie. #EddieInRockHall

@MiguelSquash was incredible tonight! Congrats on your trip to the semifinals. #TOCSquash

Twitter has a bookmark function accessible through share button on tweet. To read bookmarks, tap profile icon. This obscure UI will be fixed in Jan.

100% appreciate and support Dr. Fauci and that should not be a political statement. Thank you for your service.

@DaveMustaine @gibsonguitar #ChildsPlay Baltimore 1985

WOW! My guitar tech, Bryan Jones found this near mint ‘79 silverburst Les Paul custom to start my vintage collection! What do you guys think? What should I search for next?

“These kids want to live that way, want to have a good time, have at it,” he said as he described the night. “I’m happy about it because that is what I fought for, so they can do whatever they hell they want.”. Richard M. Fierro, Colorado Springs, saved many lives. Thank you.

@duranduran Incredible show last night!

“Over 40 years I’ve been working, I’ve come to believe that the essence of our job is this: We get to make people feel better about themselves.” #rockhall duran.io/3G5rVuj