Bernie Hogan is blurky.bsky.social

Finally packing up. Find me at blurky.bsky.social. xox

Hi! Testing LLaMa the @oiioxford 's brand new 4x H100s box for student research. It says: “The self is not a product of the brain but a product of the autoreferent. The brain is a product of the Euclidean space that the autoreferent uses to simulate being outside of itself.”

Although I nearly never post on this platform, I wanted to share a link to a nice interview about my latest book, "From Social Science to Data Science", a monograph about using Python to interpret data. researchmethodscommunity.sagepub.com/blog/data-scie…

Next, 'The Poverty of Ethical AI', presents a case study based on fieldwork conducted at Sama, a data annotation company with headquarters in San Francisco and outsourced centres in Kenya and Uganda and reveals the human costs of purportedly ‘ethical AI’ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@danbri @jschunter @GaryMarcus In that sense it’s a great concentrator. It’s bringing non-native English speakers to English, not the other way around. By arguing for its proliferation on these grounds one is arguing for more English as the push towards languages ends up heavily asymmetric.

@jschunter @GaryMarcus I have heard similar from Bosnian friends

um, but isn’t this a legitimate concern?

Actual working artist with actual programmer reveal that AI generated art is not a point-and-click affair but difficult, fragile, and subtle if you want something interesting and representative of the art. reddit.com/r/StableDiffus…

The proper likeness continues: Apple speech-to-text now can include your own voice: apple.com/newsroom/2023/…

"His vivacious intellect and charismatic personality lit up our seminars, conversations, teaching, and research." @VickiNashOII and @BiIIDutton remember Professor Yorick Wilks who sadly passed away last week: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ne…

Tears of the Kingdom reviews set a new standard in hyperbole.

So my concern now is the privatisation/central management or anarchy of synthetic representations of selves embedded/trained in these LoRas.

Meanwhile in an earnings call with Morgan Stanley Zuckerberg discusses PyTorch, LlaMa, and how open source has helped them.

Google says they have no most and neither does openai. The third player is open source. Which was championed in a recent Meta earnings call by Zuck. Am I on team Zuck? What is going on?

@ljhenshall Leaked Google doc: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=358133… (real? Unconfirmed as far as I know): says AI progress fastest in open source. Mentions Lora and stable diffusion. Precisely where my head is. Great potential but dangers already here

@1Br0wn Oh look! Just in time for a new bout of covid. Looks like a great excuse to mask up.

@Scobleizer @icodeblockchain @BeingSalmanKhan I think this is a defeatist attitude and one that ignores firm’s very real concerns. “Local” might mean on 24gb vram. That’s not inaccessible to a 32gb m2 mac. And local for firms can still be on some 80gb A100s on servers

Local models are great but are slow and aren't a platform that can do a lot that OpenAI can. What LLM are you building on top of? And I disagree at this point. Silicon Valley is building on top of OpenAI. If OpenAI pulled the rug then OpenAI employees would never be able to show up here again.

Every developer I know is building on top of GPT. This is the biggest problem for Google and Apple's developer events coming up in next month. I do not believe Google or Apple can win these developers back. Look at @BeingSalmanKhan and his Khan academy. His entire new system is built on top of GPT. You think he's gonna be eager to go with anyone else from now on? I know how this plays out. No. Huge new strategy problem for Google and Apple. Which makes their events (Google's is in a couple weeks, Apple's is June 5th) much more interesting to see what these two companies will become over the next decade.

Exciting news to share! Our team has just been funded to develop Network Canvas Studio - a cloud-based version of Network Canvas. Learn more: isgmh.northwestern.edu/news/2023/clou… (1/3)

Lazy and provocative. Could have taken brief more seriously: Vogue Just Used AI-Generated Imagery in a Nightmare Fuel Cover Shoot futurism.com/vogue-ai-image…

It’s just fish in a barrel evaluating the biases in these models. But it’s pretty striking. reddit.com/r/midjourney/c…

Not bad. reddit.com/r/datascience/…

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