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@EccentrismArt @ai_massive A dramatic stop motion scene of a group of skeletons dancing around the fire filmed at 25 frames per second in the back a dark cemetery at twilight atmospheric ambient lighting cinematic hyperreal photorealistic award winning dark fantasy horror stop motion animation

A cinematic shot, a centaur holding a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left hand is charging into battle, next to the centaur are soldiers in Ancient greek style armor and helmets, background is a ruin of a temple smoking from a previous fire, muted gray color tone, shot on film, film grain, realistic

Calling anyone curious to test Veo2!🧐 We're running a special prompt session! Drop your prompts in the comments and we'll reply with the outcome! We will try to cover as many as possible! Hope you enjoy !🔥

@VilgotHuhn @KordingLab This sounds like a description of primate cognition achieving something like logic, by throwing heaps of experiential data at a bunch of boring survival tasks - a greedy fast future predictor based on correlations alone - should have hit a wall some time ago, but here we are

@KordingLab Like we found a back-door to cognition by just throwing data and compute at it. I would also have expected it to hit a wall some time ago. Very surprising imo.

I am against the AI hype bubble. But 01 got me convinced that the current path will get us surprisingly far. I feel a bit disturbed by the thought.

@KWargamer @yang_yi_cn @chanwoopark20 @pirchavez Does anyone else also feel that "noise" (uncertainty) lies at the crux of thought?

@KWargamer @yang_yi_cn @chanwoopark20 @pirchavez Humans minds aren't stateless - we have internal working memory - and leveraging that is probably how we do symbolic manipulation (even if our implementation of the symbolic transforma might be done with squishy probabilistic wetware)

I really hate the argument about whether LLMs can reason or not. Can anyone mathematically differentiate between inference and reasoning? :) People treat reasoning like it’s something magical, but I bet many who argue about this issue can’t define it, relying more on gut feelings than facts.

@KWargamer @yang_yi_cn @chanwoopark20 @pirchavez I think the curse of dimensionality prevents a system from doing the FULL probability mapping. Instead some finite sampling makes the problem tractable again.

@KWargamer @yang_yi_cn @chanwoopark20 @pirchavez Inferences is a decent approach of your "axioms" are probabilistic claims, that you car over to make more downstream "beliefs" that are likely to be consistent with the probabilistic input.

@KWargamer @yang_yi_cn @chanwoopark20 @pirchavez Logic is more like set theory. Deterministic transforms given fixed axioms, with no uncertainty in them. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia…

@chanwoopark20 Logic is super deterministic, once you have your premises. But you have to assume the starting point. On the other hand "perception" promises raw observations of bits of reality that lead you to "premises" that you could extend with good old symbolic logic.

x.com/alepiad/status… Is this related to reasoning? Logic is deterministic, sure, but choosing logical paths can be stochastic. What’s wrong with that? Is this guy saying humans don’t "reason" because we use randomness?

@Neuropalcare Thanks for organizing! 4 years and counting, now. Do you have presentations online for your remote community?

Happening NOW. Pre-conference registration and workshops for the INPCS annual meeting in #GrandRapids are officially underway! #conference #palliativecare #Neurology

Grateful to have contributed to this @AANmember Neurobytes with Dr Noona Leavell (@OSU_Health). Key messages : thoughtful exploration & consideration of patient & care partner goals, provider concerns & full spectrum of care options. CC @Neuropalcare @Neuropall_SIG

@Syth406 @minhsmind I know it defeats the joy of working in person / on set, but how do you guys feel about looping in remote crews? I just did some location scouting for gen AI video-2-video assets, and it strikes me that this kinda work would pair well for people on a team at a gen battle.

@minhsmind Is this still ongoing? Would love to attend the next one in LA!

Every month we organize a monthly event where people can learn and play with new AI tools in LA (and SF coming soon). It’s been a real joy to grow a community of people who want to create and experiment with new tools.

@Syth406 @minhsmind @synth406 When are you thinking about going up / down?

@rezawrecktion @OpenAI @Tribeca @sama Congrats!

Amazing day at @OpenAI SF! Screened my @Tribeca Sora short, did a Q&A, toured their beautiful office designed by @sama’s designer & had lunch with the Sora team. Feeling super fortunate to be part of shaping the future of filmmaking with this tech! #AI #filmmaking #Sora #OpenAI

@etherington @theangle What's your process for selecting which startups are worth covering for your audience?

Hey, I'm relaunching @theangle with a new look and feel, and a new mandate to focus on early stage startups. I'm just going to post the whole explanatory article here directly bc X likes that stuff (link to the new site in first reply): If you’re already a subscriber to The Angle, then you’re getting this in your inbox – but you might be just landing here on the web, without any or much context. Either way, welcome – it’s great to have you reading this. The Angle started when I got laid off from TechCrunch, after spending over a decade there building what I hoped was the world’s leading startup technology publication. In my brief foray into unemployment, I envisioned The Angle as a general purpose tech newsletter focused on everything from iPhones to intellectual property disputes. The new iteration of the blog (and yes I think of it more like a blog, but you’ll still be able to get it in your inbox via Substack, too) will have a more defined focus: Early stage startups. In case you missed it, shortly after I left TC, I was lucky enough to land a job at OMERS Ventures – a venture firm attached to Ontario’s municipal employee retirement pension plan, and one of Canada’s largest VC funds in terms of assets under management. OV’s primary focus in terms of allocating its funds is on companies that I would categorize as in the ‘late early to growth’ stages, including Series A through Series C. Ironically, across my career this is probably the category of company that I’ve had the least exposure to; instead, my focus has either been on mature public companies without outsized influence on the tech industry overall, like Apple – or on companies at or near formation. The Angle will henceforth focus squarely on that latter category, and will feature profiles of interesting early stage companies (geography agnostic), as well as interviews with founders and investors. To that end, I’d love to hear from you if you find yourself identified in any of the above coverage areas. I’m already lucky enough to be getting inbound based on my original The Angle announcement, but with the new remit I think there’s a whole world of new potential connections out there to be made. I’m darrell @ theangle [dot] com for those of you who are not robots and can figure out my low-tech CAPTCHA. There’s plenty in the works for The Angle in this new iteration – including a podcast, a tweaked approach to the newsletter, and possibly some events as well. But all of the above will be guided by what resonates best with, and best serves, the audience, so please let me know what you think as we go.

Initial prompts made last night with @louiepecan at #cerebralbeach wrapped up this morning with @10zebra_app.

Claims from the paper (hardware dependant, code not released). Still ... 1 minute!

Gaussian splat screen grab running from my android phone

New workflow for navigating a 3D scene. Img -> multi view -> splat.

"War Movie" - a videopoem by the one and only Martha McCollough movingpoems.com/2024/05/war-mo…