DeepMay
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DeepMay
@deepmay_net
DeepMay is a camp for an applied rethinking of what technology is and should be.



NYPD Pepper sprayed himself on the Manhattan bridge, trying to arrest people on the bridge.


A teen hacked Nvidia, got arrested, was released on bail under police supervision. Police confiscated his laptop and put him in a motel room. He then used the Amazon fire stick connected to his motel room TV to hack Rockstar and steal GTA 6 clips bbc.com/news/technolog…


Huge thanks to @endnotesjournal for publishing this piece I co-wrote with Phil Neel which answers the question "how would a communist society work?" We deploy a scientific approach with a large emphasis on questions of production and industry. (1/2) endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-a…

When will we run out of English tokens? Soon. Very Borges. Synthetic data probably not enough? "Our analysis indicates that the stock of high-quality language data will be exhausted soon; likely before 2026." Will synthetic be able to generate new knowledge? #NeurIPS23

Gemini is Latin for "twins". The Gemini effort came about because we had different teams working on language modeling, and we knew we wanted to start to work together. The twins are the folks in the legacy Brain team (many from the PaLM/PaLM-2 effort) and the legacy DeepMind team (many from the Chinchilla effort) that started to work together on the ambitious multimodal model project we called Gemini, eventually joined by many people from all across Google. Gemini was also was the Nasa project that was the bridge to the moon between the Mercury and Apollo programs.


This report on Israel’s military strategy of wiping out “power targets” and “family homes,” which is powered / justified by an AI “mass assassination factory,” is so shocking and unreal. You want lethal impacts of AI? Well here you fucking go! 972mag.com/mass-assassina…



