Lance
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Inside the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Era of AI in Music From juicing demos to cloning vocals, AI music tools are creeping into the workflows of top producers, songwriters, and artists. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic Story: rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…
Packy and I spent the past month unpacking world models from first principles. This piece is the result of that exploration. We go into why, what, how, and look out into the future on the implications of our work.
Everyone says they’re building a world model. Very few actually are. Most AI learns to see the world. A world model learns to predict what happens in it — specifically, what happens when people do things. That’s a different problem. Seeing is passive. Consequences require understanding cause and effect Any AI can learn to read a scene. A world model learns INTUITION about what changes it. @gen_intuition
Doesn’t take into account that there is value to redesigning homes and other spaces so humans have more and better living space Just like warehouses were redesigned to optimize speed/storage and access. Homes, offices and other spaces can be redesigned Just because a humanoid can do the job, it doesn’t mean it’s the optimal robot for the job and space utilization Why wouldn’t you use a smaller, less expensive, easier to maintain robot that has an environment it was designed for ?
Paul Graham is back in the latest Social Radars, talking about what went on behind the scenes in the early days of YC. If you like the fly-on-the-wallness of Social Radars interviews, this is the most fly-on-the-wall of all. pod.link/1677066062/epi…
Operating in stealth mode is almost always a mistake. Talk publicly about what you're building. You’ll build momentum, get real feedback, and someone will reach out with the other half of your idea you didn’t realize you were missing.
Today @GoogleMaps is getting its biggest upgrade in over a decade. By combining our Gemini models with a deep understanding of the world, Maps now unlocks entirely new possibilities for how you navigate and explore. Here’s what you need to know 🧵
BREAKING: Proof—a new product from @every It’s a live collaborative document editor where humans and AI agents work together in the same doc. It's fast, free, and open source—available now at proofeditor.ai. It’s built from the ground up for the kinds of documents agents are increasingly writing: bug reports, PRDs, implementation plans, research briefs, copy audits, strategy docs, memos, and proposals. Why Proof? When everyone on your team is working with agents, there's suddenly a ton of AI-generated text flying around—planning docs, strategy memos, session recaps. But the current process for collaborating and iterating on agent-generated writing is…weirdly primitive. It mostly takes place in Markdown files on your laptop, which makes it reminiscent of document editing in 1999. Proof lets you leave .md files behind. What makes Proof different? - Proof is agent-native: Anything you can do in Proof, your agent can do just as easily. - Proof tracks provenance: A colored rail on the left side of every document tracks who wrote what. Green means human, Purple means AI. - Proof is login-free and open source: This is because we want Proof to be your agent's favorite document editor. Check it out now, for free—no login required: proofeditor.ai
the only way to have fun on the internet is to not play scared. you need to be ok with the internet dunking on you every once in a while so you can operate in a liberated, open state. if you’re trying to avoid criticism, you become boring (also true in real life too, by the way).
Writing ability is still one of the most important skills to have To test for that, I used to ask people to write something for me. But now, to make sure they’re good writers and not only good prompters, I find it helpful to also: 1) ask them to explain a concept extemporaneously (strong rhetoric and lucidity typically translate to clear writing, though not always the other way around) 2) look at writing samples from before 2023
