2024-05-04
I, too, like to ask my psychotic acquaintance to tell me things he vaguely knows about, where he heard it “in a pub from a mate who's cousin with this guy who knew the guy who it happened to”. [embedded post]
TechCrunch
X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web
X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section.
I, too, like to ask my psychotic acquaintance to tell me things he vaguely knows about, where he heard it “in a pub from a mate who's cousin with this guy who knew the guy who it happened to”. [embedded post]
Big Technology
Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming
That is how you get widespread bias and disinformation. — #gigo Bluesky: @nzpom.com : These were some early examples of Grok testing that were accidentally released into producti...
2024-03-25
Slow motion trainwreck still slowly wrecking. Investors puzzled. [embedded post]
Wall Street Journal
Despite X's push to attract creators, its strategy remains unclear, as some creators cite concerns about the state of X's ad business and inconsistent payments
& to some extent, remain! — journalists: https://www.wsj.com/... That's one reason Musk's animus towards “legacy media” & the press has been uniquely damaging to @X's present — & f...
2023-09-21
OK this is very cool: — 'PFGM can create images of the same quality as those produced by diffusion-based approaches and do so 10 to 20 times faster. “It utilizes a physical construct, the electric field, in a way we've never seen before,” said Hananel Hazan, a computer scientist at Tufts University.' [embedded post]
Quanta Magazine
A look at Poisson flow generative models, a physics-inspired alternative to diffusion-based AI models that can create the same quality images 10X to 20X faster
'PFGM can create images of the same quality as those produced by diffusion-based approaches and do so 10 to 20 times faster. “It utilizes a physical construct, the electric field,...