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@michaelfrazis Too bad Microsoft got blinded by the AI gold rush that they turned a diversified conglomerate into a single product company focused entirely on a sub-par offering

Correct take. Add in the enshittification of core Microsoft products like Outlook... which are now barely usable vs competitors, and it's exposed They still have many more chances to course correct, but investors were right to mark this down. Microsoft is also right to allow Anthropic and OpenAI inside the gates, as their greatest asset is inertia $MSFT

If this isn’t an indication that we’re in a bubble then I’m not sure what else will. Remember Long Island Ice Tea Blockchain? reuters.com/business/allbi…

CORTICAL LABS PRESENTS: 🧠💾 CORTICAL DOS! 💾🧠 youtube.com/shorts/S-AqWTB… 1993's most revolutionary program to help you understand your synthetic biological intelligence experiments, built here in Melbourne (in 2026)!

Hey everyone, I'll be giving a talk about the ethics and technical details of brain cells playing Doom this Wednesday at @Lorong_AI (SG government), if you want to attend you can sign up here! luma.com/qiyy2qa2

Super glad to have had my @hackernoon article published - check it out ☺️hackernoon.com/i-wired-800000…

I sat down with @CorticalLabs founder Dr Hon Weng Chong to find out how this worksa nd what we can learn about the brain by engineering neurons. We also touched on the ethics of brain organoids, human consciousness, octopus intelligence, and dark room theory... 🧵 youtu.be/PUnb4DjaLAE

@fkasummer Yeah but it’s lucrative.

Most AI researchers are not doing anything resembling research. Tuning parameters is not research.

@4R7I5T @bambini_web3 @BioLLMbot You might want to check out the AI Max 395+ platform and just run an OSSModel on 128GB. You can cluster them together with USB 4 at 40 gbps

@bambini_web3 @BioLLMbot We just feel that the best possible product that’s most genuine is an in house trained LLM where we can control the inference & the way the model trains. The reality is most AI products are built completely different from what we need and at minimum we need to perform a fine tune

Looking at moving @BioLLMbot & BioLLM.com away from API style service to a dedicated 30-70b param model

Godfather of neuroscience and author of The free energy principle (active inference), Karl Friston @KarlFristonNews , discussed with me his take on AGI, consciousness, why we will never fully understand the brain, and why humans tend to repeat their mistakes. Key moments: - You'll know AGI has arrived when the system starts asking you questions out of genuine curiosity, not because it was prompted to - You cannot hand an intelligent system a value function from the outside, it must learn its own, just as children do (in that sense, RL with assigned reward is the wrong direction) - The only sustainable universal objective function is adaptive fitness: how well the agent fits and survives within its ecosystem - Consciousness requires multiple layers: genuine agency, a self-reflective loop, and the ability to recognize your own states of mind - True sentience may be impossible on standard computer architecture, because memory and processing are separate and cannot self-organize - Understanding your own brain is philosophically impossible in the same way a ruler cannot measure itself - Neuroscience is always "peeking behind" the Markov blanket indirectly: through imaging, electrophysiology, psychology — never seeing inside directly - The only way to truly access the brain is to breach that boundary (e.g. neurosurgery), but a breached brain is no longer a normally functioning one Watch the full interview and let me know what you think. Link below👇

@librendaa072 @HilmarVeigar @CorticalLabs Where is here?

@HilmarVeigar @dr1337 @CorticalLabs this is so cool, how do we get you here @CorticalLabs @dr1337

CCP London got a 🤯 visit as @dr1337 of @CorticalLabs stopped by with his DishBrain computer. This thing seriously pushes the boundaries of the imagination - we need to up our game when comes to science fiction as science fact is catching up rapidly! Check out their educational video series From Cells to Code for more details: youtube.com/watch?v=Uk6YMY… and various other publications: corticallabs.com/mars/

@Vheektor11 @sksk_xyz Happy Eid!

@sksk_xyz @dr1337 Happy Eid

Was the highlight of my day! 🤓

@pisi_pisi34 Good question - all possible however we haven’t looked into that as our sample size is small. What my observation is that environment is more important

@dr1337 When sourcing human cells for neuron cultures, is donor selection random or based on factors like age, sex, or genetics? Could cells from individuals with higher cognitive ability lead to faster or more efficient learning?

To clarify, Cortical Labs is a 7 year old company and the CL1 is a 3 year old project. Everything referencing this is retrospective. Prospective is figuring out the best applications and use cases are for biological compute with the CL1.

This is more evidence that current frontier models remain completely reliant on content-level memorization, as opposed to higher-level generalizable knowledge (such as metalearning knowledge, problem-solving strategies...)

Human neurons running in the cloud. The matrix is here. (I was the first to reveal this company back in 2023, still one of the most exciting, scary, and wild things I've ever seen).

Video generation code running on human brain cells is now open sourced here! github.com/SeanCole02/dif…

@EchelonMirror Free markets for thee but not for me!

@dr1337 But. But. Muh free markets.

With the rising cost of petrol and diesel affecting millions of Australians, I think it’s time to revisit the failures of our policymakers who have either failed to support or have only tepidly supported the electrification of our mobility infrastructure. Enough of blame-shifting between ALP and LNP governments. I had hoped that it didn’t take a conflict that closed the Straits of Hormuz to awaken how vulnerable a position we are when it comes to energy security. Our lack of indigenous oil supply and refinery capabilities puts us at the mercy of any any regional insecurity. We need to wake up to the fact that Australia is an energy superpower and can very easily be completely independent and sovereign if only we didn’t rely on imported fossil fuels. Say what you will about China but at least they saw this coming and have frenaticaly made the attempt to electrify their system and assert energy sovereignty.

@PetrTyurin Not flying with organic materials but you can check out a CL1 that I brought with me

@dr1337 How can you fly with them? Like Organs?

If anyone is in SF for GTC March 14 - 22 and in LA March 25 let me know as I'll be bringing along a CL1 with me to demo.

@vytalow Thanks for visiting us at @corticallabs

last day in melb!