Ben Straley

@jowyang not sure about the number of public events with "AI" in the name in Seattle but there is A LOT of AI-related activity and building happening here with @Microsoft, @Amazon, @Google and @Meta outposts, the @AllenInstitute as well as a rapidly growing number of startups

San Francisco is the capital of AI, hosting 58 public AI events in July alone, not to mention many private events. Which city has the second most AI events: NYC, London, LA, Austin, Hong Kong, Paris, Singapore, Toronto, Shanghai? Despite July being considered a "slow month" for tech events due to vacation schedules, SF remains buzzing with activity. This am I noticed along the 101 Freeway, a smattering of billboards feature AI vendors showcasing their offerings. Data from @cerebral_valley follow them and visit website for calandar. #AI

@SullyOmarr @bstraley on Threads and on Twitter

If you’re on threads drop your @ here, will try to follow everyone I really wana see how this compares to twitter once the algo starts going

@profgalloway I just onboarded to @instagram 's Threads. pretty good. you should check it out. Threads v. Twitter > billionaires boxing

Excited to talk about blockchain-enabled Open Loyalty today at D2 / Retail Innovation Conference and Expo in Chicago. Ping me if you're attending! #RICE23

I'm very excited to share that Thred, the digital asset discovery and engagement platform we launched earlier in 2023, has merged with Heaps, a leading crypto loyalty platform, and secured $6M+ in additional funding from investors…lnkd.in/gRZhncgh kigo.io

Paul Desmond, the original saxophonist of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, wrote a piece for Audrey Hepburn. He never knew she’d heard it. nyer.cm/B9LVxSZ

hey @profgalloway when and where are you speaking in Seattle during your upcoming tour? open to the public? too late to buy a ticket?

@Trunksthedj Carmelo’s on 12th

Still looking for a taco spot in Seattle 🌮

@Philip_Cosores @KSVesq well done

@KSVesq Hi Karen, I'm sorry for this, this is very shitty. I updated this part to something more appropriate on the site. We love this story and hope you all have a blast at the show (I went in Arizona and it is one of the best concerts I've ever seen)

Come on man

Really looking forward to attending the #innovationexchange at Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) on April 20th. The evening will provide a spotlight on aerospace technology, rocket launches and more and also highlight the companies operating in the Se…lnkd.in/gyxz96Rz

@0xDesigner So good

Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world. The results 🧵 1/22

@Carnage4Life brilliant observation

Web3 is continuing to provide creators with new opportunities for more favorable equitable distribution while using the existing systems for amplification. Happy to see my friend @iancr and @derekedws have this important conversation via @Ledger bit.ly/3JdHkbI

@LinusEkenstam brilliant

If it’s not clear yet, this is what I think will happen soon. Every major tech company except Apple has announced their own LLM. Apple have spent years perfecting their on-device neural engine. Capable of some absolute insane operations. Loads of compute in a small and energy efficient form factor. With M1, M2 & soon M3 the neural engine is even more powerful than their A series mobile chipsets. While we currently need the cloud to run ChatGPT and it’s clunky, I think Apple is going to blow everyone out of the water here. Both on desktop class hardware and mobile. I think Apple will be launching their own secure and private LLM that runs on device (edge compute). And when necessary it offloads more heavy workloads to a cloud based LLM that’s optimized for heavier tasks. So we will initially have some hybrid. Personal, with tight hardware and software integration this AI will be omnipresent. Apple will probably use this to sell a lot of new hardware that they claim is needed to run this. They will make a lot of moneys. For me the LLM’s will form the new protocol level technology upon which most new software will be built. We will have to re-wire our core understanding about what an application is. Single-use apps will be a huge thing. If you need to solve a unique problem, and nobody has ever done software for that because not enough market. With an LLM even a problem with only one user, will be doable, enter your ask, and code gets written, problem gets solved. Runtime ends, app dies. Done. Single use apps are born. It’s hard to predict or try to understand how the world will look just 10 years from today. It will be very different, we have passed the inflection point, the rocket engines have been lit. We’ve taken off. Add to all the above that every single field, category and market will be disrupted at the same time. And not only with text/coding but with any multi-media we have. Images, video & audio. Anything we can come up with can and will be enhanced or disrupted by AI. Once we got more people that will have their AI A-ha moment the rate of change and adoption will continue to increase. This will continue until we have global access and coverage. People will get left behind, and this will be one of the most important things to try to combat. Having a 0% left behind policy. We need to make sure AI benefits all. We’re living through a paradigm shift, and we’re witness a new protocol level technology. We’re seeing it arrive in real-time and most people have no clue about what’s about to happen. I’m not an AI alarmist, I’m an AI gardener, and optimist. We will have time to adapt. Not as long as we had during the Industrial Revolution, but enough time to make sure we have a chance at a positive outcome. We’re moving away from the Information Age into the Age of Intelligence. With unlimited access to intelligence anywhere, anytime. 18th Mars 2023 - Linus Ekenstam

@niftyportal @allnick well said

Why are so many NFT projects failing and running out of money? "If you throw money at someone who can't sing, that doesn't make them a great singer" - @allnick What kind of qualities do you look for in a founder?

@kristophershinn GM! love your work and where you do it

gm to absolutely everyone spending the day on the water, where i belong

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