Beta Ben Popper V2.3

We brought an April Fool's joke to life stackoverflow.blog/2021/09/28/bec…

I was today year's old when I learned where the killer riffs from Mortal Kombat theme song came from youtu.be/PUJgx7stXFY?si…

Started talking about sleepovers at breakfast with the kiddos....which led to a story about the Mortal Kombat theme song....and now I’m just listening to Jock Jams Volume 1 at 7:20AM

A robot you can eat, battery and all. This is my kind of gonzo tech. Made to mimic prey so wild boars will chomp it down, receive their medication, and digest the little jelly bot. I'm ready to chow down on some nanobots if they'll clean my colon. spectrum.ieee.org/soft-edible-ro…

I've hear folks argue about AI agents as just an upgrade on RPA. "This isn't just RPA on steroids!" But so what if it is? RPA could handle a certain level of task, now it can go broader and deeper. What we have now is RRPA or RPA² - Routine REASONING Process Automation FTW!

Lots of hand wringing from talking heads about Apple potentially outsourcing AI. How could they abandon full vertical integration?!? It's not like they used a competitor to power search on iOS for the last two decades....

14 minutes to find the meaning of life

Check out the full post for a deeper dive linkedin.com/pulse/ais-new-…

"It is a crazy update that I don’t think the world has really understood yet," said CEO Sam Altman. What's he talking about? The idea that progress in AI is limited largely by constraints around compute and energy has dominated the conversation for the last two years. In a recent video, however, OpenAI made a fascinating admission. The researchers working on its next frontier model, GPT5, say that scarcity of DATA, not compute, is the biggest obstacle to training the next frontier model.

Books you can read in less time than one doom scroll loop onesittingreads.substack.com/p/riffing-and-…

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Back on my BS, making the media machine go BRRRR Tune in for insight on the state of today's AI IDE market - AKA: which bot writes the best code?

@dr_cintas They need to turn this into a multi-player game - a sort of AI powered pictionary - guess the three inputs for subject, style, setting.

Google’s new Whisk tool is so good. It lets you create custom stylized versions of any photo by combining subjects, scenes, and artistic styles. Entirely free and you don’t even need to write prompts, just add images for each.

Things are getting fun

@aweissman You're lucky! Sounds like you are well versed in experiencing joy. It's a muscle that needs to be exercised

everyday i hear some song and think to myself "this might be the greatest song ever recorded" sometimes it's a new song; sometimes an older one i've just come across; and sometimes an old song i've heard many times but it happens every single day

Writing while I code has been hugely beneficial to my process - so I shared my thoughts on the @StackOverflow blog.

@cwolferesearch Congrats!

I’m excited to announce that I joined Netflix this week! I’ll be working as a Machine Learning Scientist on the promotional writing team. My work will focus on working with creative writing teams to amplify and scale promotional content on Netflix. Given that my two primary passions are writing and AI, it goes without saying that I’m pretty excited for this role. I’m looking forward to deepening my understanding of AI and sharing some interesting findings along the way!

@colineverest Always good for a bookie

@benpopper A - 4:1 B - 3:1 C - +10000

Trying to calculate the over/under on taking a vacation in Iceland as volcanic activity in the area reaches new highs. A) Trip of a lifetime, visual spectacle B) Flights cancelled, spas closed? C) I actually perish beneath a wave of lava

@zachklein Also a location likely to weather climate change well over next decade or two

Critically important that value flow between the communities creating the knowledge and the big AI builders in a ethical and mutually beneficial way stackoverflow.blog/2024/02/29/def…

Pretty sure it was @Jason who said on the @theallinpod that there was a ton of value in the data sets of big web communities :) techcrunch.com/2024/02/29/goo…