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Michael Spencer

Michael Spencer

@Michael_AI_bro

Talks about exponential tech, national defense, BigTech, OpenAI and Generative AI.

Katılım Şubat 2024
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@vkhosla @realDonaldTrump I certainly don't want children with the ethics of Sam Altman either. But lo and behold. Our leaders are like cheap and crafty Napoleons.
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Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind·
“We have entered an age where a single human mind cannot comprehend the data that we are gathering about the universe.” Our VP Research for Science @pushmeet joined @a16z to discuss how AI can help scientists and others with new insights. Listen now ↓ dpmd.ai/3wTVug5
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
When American democracy depends on three swing States, you cannot call it a functional representative democracy. America doesn't really have a real democracy.
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Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
Looks like I'll have to @lindayaX quit X, if I write 2,000 posts and get 200 followers who are mostly bots. That's not an adequate user experience for some who writes daily with 300,000 actual readers.
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@Noahpinion It doesn't even matter considering what an oil exporter the U.S. is becoming. The U.S. is decades behind the rest of the world when it comes to Green energy, EV adoption and even making it practical or affordable.
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@bindureddy People talk about agentic AI but even our copilots and search doesn't even work. Can we please actually build good products before we speculate on what you think will be able to do next. This era of copilot in chatbots is like a sea of tools people don't even want to use.
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Bindu Reddy
Bindu Reddy@bindureddy·
AI Agents Are Going To Automate The Following Tasks First - customer support and call routing - doc generation in the legal profession - data analyst / report generator - IT support desk and ticket triage - test script generator - junior financial analyst - contract creation and analysis For the above tasks, AI agents already perform MUCH better than humans. The next level of hard problems will require a small leap in agentic and planning abilities, and we should expect that in the coming months.
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@eldsjal It's synthetic spam it's not people sharing content though right? I could flood Spotify with synthetic music but that's not me is it. Even the majority of reactions on Twitter are now bots.
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Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek@eldsjal·
Today, with the cost of creating content being close to zero, people can share an incredible amount of content. This has sparked my curiosity about the concept of long shelf life versus short shelf life. While much of what we see and hear quickly becomes obsolete, there are timeless ideas or even pieces of music that can remain relevant for decades or even centuries. For example, we’re witnessing a resurgence of Stoicism, with many of Marcus Aurelius’s insights still resonating thousands of years later. This makes me wonder: what are the most unintuitive, yet enduring ideas that aren’t frequently discussed today but might have a long shelf life? Also, what are we creating now that will still be valued and discussed hundreds or thousands of years from today?
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@tegmark Why do people never talk about wealth and equality and actually issues people care about? For the militarization of generative AI we are already seeing with openai's partnership with the Pentagon? Instead I hear all the lame talking points of years ago.
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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark@tegmark·
Yann, my position is markedly different: 1. Extreme power concentration must be avoided. 2. Superintelligence is likely to kill us all if anyone builds it before figuring out how to make it safe. 3. Hence *nobody* should be allowed to build it before it can be guaranteed to be safe.
Yann LeCun@ylecun

The Doomer's Delusion: 1. AI is likely to kill us all 2. Hence AI must be monopolized by a small number of companies under tight regulatory control. 3. Hence AI systems must have a remote kill switch. 4. Hence foundation model builders must be eternally liable for bad uses of their models and derived versions of it. 5. Hence open source AI must be banned. 6. But open source is popular, so we're just going to say that we are pro open source but also say we need some sort of regulatory agency to oversee it. 7. We're going to scare the hell out of the public and their representatives with prophecies of doom. 8. But we'll make sure to appear much more respectable than the most extreme doomers. 9. To look even more respectable, we'll create a one-person institute to promote AI safety. 10. We'll get insane levels of funding from well-intentioned but clueless billionaires who are scared sh*tless of catastrophe scenarios, got too rich too quickly, have too much time on their hands, but should know better. 11. We'll claim that the majority of prominent scientists agree with us, even though said scientists are an infinitesimal minority in the AI community.

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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@gdb Not enough traction, not enough daily active users. Build products people actually need. Build products that have some entertainment value.
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Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
America is in a k-shaped economy. This suggests that generative AI will pump value for the top 20% of consumers while stripping more value from the bottom 40%. So how you view the lobbying of the technology optimism movement, is mostly just a function of your rank.
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@AravSrinivas It's amusing when a company that's just 14 months old without a product that's distinct, can raise a $6 billion round. There are so many bots on Twitter I'm afraid it's not the best place to train an AI on.
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Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas·
That’s a lot of GPUs for Grok!
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@bindureddy The reality is hardly anyone uses AI tools on any regular basis unless they are necessary for their work. Few people have even heard of these things.
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Bindu Reddy
Bindu Reddy@bindureddy·
Disagree! Society Will Shift Towards People With Design Skills While AI may make coding obsolete, it will make design and supervision of agents necessary People who can use AI tools and execute will be the ones in demand The problem with verbal skills is that there is not much inherent demand anyways! AI is not going to change that
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@kimmonismus Who cares. People don't even use their products on a daily basis. Having weekly or monthly users isn't a thing. They don't have a real business model.
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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer@Michael_AI_bro·
@pmddomingos This is a popular rumor among the techno-optimists. But the venture capitalist wouldn't even be successful if there was no regulation. Because generative AI can't do what it's claimed to be able to do. The ROI is minimal. And companies and individuals are starting to realize it
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Pedro Domingos
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos·
Overregulation will kill the AI boom.
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