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Dave Williams

@Dave360

adventure travel enthusiast, mentor, advisor, social media addict, digital marketing entrepreneur, founder of NomadX, BLiNQ Media, 360i & other ventures!

Lisbon, Portugal Bergabung Mart 2009
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Dave Williams
Dave Williams@Dave360·
“AI Takeover” by The Doctor Is In The House taps into the rise of machines, automation, and next-gen intelligence. From RPA to digital twins, NLP to autonomous everything — this track is the anthem for a future where humans + AI run side-by-side. suno.com/s/es7AQXm0SPfC…
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Dave Williams@Dave360·
@mattshumer_ “AI Takeover” by The Doctor Is In The House taps into the rise of machines, automation, and next-gen intelligence. From RPA to digital twins, NLP to autonomous everything — this track is the anthem for a future where humans + AI run side-by-side. suno.com/s/es7AQXm0SPfC…
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@levelsio@levelsio·
I complain a lot about Portugal But one of its biggest selling points that very few places anywhere can compete with is the air quality if you live near the beach Bangkok now is AQI 168 Portugal now is AQI 4 It's simply some of the cleanest air in the world Happy 🫁 lungs 😊
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Dave Williams@Dave360·
@mcuban Elon is taking care of some long due Business. Thanks Elon 🚀 past Mr Cuban
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Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban@mcuban·
Anyone consider that maybe Elon’s mission, is for Elon to get what he wants, rather than the country to get what you voted for ? It’s not a shock for Elon , or anyone, to put their personal goals first Elon seems to be on a mission to protect brand Elon at all costs. No ? Free Speech is everything. Until it’s anything related to Elon. Who has complete control over speech here on X The censorship of the platform you adore is in the hands of a single person, who is on a mission to make himself the most powerful person in the world. above and beyond the President of the United States.
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Applied General Intelligence
Applied General Intelligence@AppliedGeneral·
We are at a pivotal moment in the future of AI. Our approach at Applied General Intelligence (AGI) has always been to validate our claims internally and only then speak. We no longer believe we have that luxury given the news over the past week. A few months ago, we hit a major breakthrough in our approach. For the past 5 years we’ve worked in stealth on a novel approach that goes beyond LLMs. We call this new approach a Coherence Maintenance System, or CMX. We’ve named our prototype system “Arx.” The breakthrough we achieved came by applying our abstraction of the full system to solve hallucinations while using LLMs for certain sub-tasks. Applying CMX directly at the problem of solving hallucinations in general intelligence systems was phase 1 in our roadmap. Phase 2 is developing the full system without using LLMs for any sub-task. While costs have been a huge problem with LLMs, it was not the true defect in the approach. Hallucinations prevent full scale adoption of AI because outputs can’t be trusted Hallucinations will always plague LLMs because they’re inherent to their architecture As we were building our Coherence Maintenance System, Arx, our north star was coherence. An intelligent system with coherence at its core will not guess. This presented a challenge we solved by doing two things. First, deconstructing and fully understanding language. Linguistics is the core of our foundation. With that we built our language comprehension engine, grounded in our knowledge base. As we begin to onboard early users, they will be able to see exactly how Arx chunks and parses every query. Second, Arx learned how to read so it could then read to learn. This is the same developmental process every human goes through. It’s why reading is the first thing any child must do before they can learn other subjects in school. While this sounds simple, the technological challenge here is extreme. That is why companies have instead resorted to building LLMs, a convenient statistical approximation of language understanding with all its pros and cons: you live by statistics and you die by statistics. Arx is fundamentally different – a true breakthrough beyond LLMs.. What’s more is that our approach is by its very design computationally efficient. Our current cost per query is $.0025. Cheaper than even the DeepSeek models that have recently come out. Earlier this year we submitted a small abstraction of our model to Tiger Lab at the MMLU Pro. We told investors and experts before we ever submitted that we would score the highest of any company on that benchmark. They ran and validated our result where we scored 82.9%. This was before the major improvements we’ve made in the past weeks. We were on the top of the leaderboard for a number of weeks but ultimately we were removed because we are not an LLM. We agree that we are not and we also believe that LLMs are not the path to achieving AGI. So while we were disappointed that they could not understand this novel approach we’ve taken, this is not new to us. In August we raised our seed round. We are sharing our pitch deck we used for the round and you will see that we were already calling for an approach Beyond LLMs. Many investors struggled to believe that there was another path forward. But this round was closed in 2 weeks as many investors immediately understood the approach we were taking and why it would lead to the world’s most efficient, coherent, and reliable intelligence system. At Applied General Intelligence we believe that winning the AI race is a matter of national interest and it’s one that we are positioned to win. Not because we need hundreds of billions of dollars to do it but because we’ve taken a novel approach that solves the two biggest problems in AI. Cost and Hallucinations. We have purposefully kept our research and IP out of the public domain. Seeing what has happened over the past week has validated our approach. We know there will be lots of questions and doubts. That has been the reality for the past 5 years in building this company. We said that the world needed to go Beyond LLMs and many are acknowledging that reality now. We will deliver a giant leap forward that surpasses all the LLMs. First, we will help solve their hallucinations with our abstraction. Next, we will make our full model available to take the world from LLMs to CMX and beyond. Link to our Seed Deck from 2024 here: docsend.com/view/zzv6yyt5j…
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Dave Williams@Dave360·
@levelsio No sense of urgency and generally not a strong customer focus
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@levelsio@levelsio·
I know LOTS of ambitious Europeans who grind But the insane amounts of regulation shut them down before they've even gotten started Silicon Valley is full of European founders so it's not the people's fault It's the European system
Dwayne@CtrlAltDwayne

@levelsio I work with people from Europe and they're intelligent and highly capable people. But they don't know how to grind. It's not in their DNA to work long hours or take huge risks. Also surprises me how many holidays that seem to get. I swear there's a holiday every month.

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Dave Williams@Dave360·
Yeah, we livin' life, on that cruise control, Ideas on the rise but they just don't unfold, Tryna write them books, but time's a thief in the night, Podcasts on the list, but the hours ain't right.
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Dave Williams@Dave360·
@levelsio Yes this is typical in common law countries but if you buy a home in Portugal you are from another country you can create a Will to use the Will from your home country. We just did this but should have done sooner if we knew otherwise it’s a real mess.
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@levelsio@levelsio·
Every week I learn more why the Portugal housing market failed to expand based on the influx of foreigners in 2020 And thus lost the opportunity to grow with it Except for building new homes being an administrative nightmare, here's another Crazy inheritance laws on homes:
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The rise and fall of 🇵🇹 Lisbon (2020-2024) Lisbon arrivals have now returned to the levels of 4 years ago, just before it started to explode and suddenly get popular with foreigners and tourists alike Why? The government stopped the NHR program (to attract foreigners to Portugal) in January 2024, many foreigners dispersed over other cities than Lisbon, and even more foreigners just left the country It might be a good thing because Lisbon simply never had the capacity or infrastructure or desire to deal with it But it's also a massive wasted opportunity: if Lisbon did have the capacity (or made it easy to build more homes and start businesses), it could have EASILY been the European Silicon Valley, with billions of dollars flowing into it and foreigners + locals starting companies that would have benefited the Portuguese with tax income and millions of jobs created It has a high quality of life, amazing climate, near the beach, very similar to California. Lisbon even has a cloen of the 🌁 Golden Gate bridge, and a 🚡 tram like SF! Portugal has over 700,000 vacant houses, of which 150,000 in Lisbon, which could have been used to house all the people. Instead the government ignored the problem and Portuguese locals started complaining about rising rents and made foreigners the scapegoat! This forced the government to stop attracting foreigners in January 2024. I'm in 🇺🇸 Austin, TX now and it's VERY similar to Lisbon in how it suddenly got popular during 2020 COVID and got massive migration to it, but if I ask locals about it, they generally love it: They say there's much more stuff to do here, more job opportunities, they're richer now, and it's more fun to live here than when they grew up here And this is because almost overnight Austin became a tech hub with companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, Dell, Oracle, IBM, Nvidia, AMD, Wise, and of course Tesla and SpaceX opening up offices here, most of them after 2020! It might still happen in Lisbon though, but for now the foreigners seem to be leaving elsewhere, and they're taking their billions of dollars/euros with them Many Portuguese will be glad that it's over, but long term it's questionable what it does to the economy and what an opportunity has been wasted here nomadlist.com/trends/lisbon

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Not Elon Musk@ElonMuskAOC·
Do you like this 𝕏 app logo?
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