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Ai Read_000 – Google “We Have No Moat…”

“These contributions were pivotal in the image generation space, setting Stable Diffusion on a different path from Dall-E. Having an open model led to ⁠product integrations⁠, ⁠marketplaces⁠, ⁠user interfaces⁠, and ⁠innovations⁠ that didn’t happen for Dall-E. The effect was palpable: ⁠rapid domination⁠ in terms of cultural impact vs the OpenAI solution, which became increasingly irrelevant. Whether the same thing will happen for LLMs remains to be seen, but the broad structural elements are the same.”
~ Anonymous Google Employee

While I wasn’t sure whether I would bring the “read” format to this podcast, there was just too much great material to cover and I felt I would do a disservice if I didn’t make it available for the audience who wants to dive into this stuff with me fully, rather than be satisfied with a summary. So I felt the best option for a flagship read, was the article that finally tipped me over the edge to start Ai Unchained. A leaked document from a Google employee seeing the trends and compounding effects of the open source Ai movement, titled “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI.” Get ready for a great read, and the shows first Guy’s Take…

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Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does (Link: http://tinyurl.com/2t28ye9k)

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Chris Lattner on Lex (Link: http://tinyurl.com/5xw4txun)

Modular announces Mojo (Link: https://www.modular.com/)

RunwayML – Text2video (Link: https://runwayml.com/)

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Read_739 – The State of Zapvertising [The Same Cat]

"Zapvertising has two forms, and I believe there is a crucial difference between the two. In one version, a company or creator zaps a ton of notes on the Nostr feed. Blockstream has done this for a couple of days at a time, to great success. It is very unobtrusive. Just a gentle reminder that…

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Ai_003 – The Dark Side of Ai with Alex Lewin

Ai may be able to make us vastly more productive, far more creative, and orders of magnitude more dangerous. As Ai moves into the realm of creating hierarchies of tasks to accomplish larger goals, combined with the unparalleled scalability of its execution, a broad, self-spreading and malicious Ai becomes frighteningly more possible by the day. Like a wildfire burning out of control, what could be the consequences, how bad could a hypothetical scenario get, and what, if anything, can we do about it?
Don’t miss this incredible conversation with Alex Lewin, bringing a software development and cyber security perspective to the show, to shine a light on the dark side of Ai
 
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Guy’s Take #67 – Withdraw Everything

With the banking crisis just getting started, with the SEC going after Binance and Coinbase, with rumors of Prime Trust declaring bankruptcy, it is no better time than now to take advantage of the most elegant aspect of Bitcoin, that it is a bearer asset that you can own without the permission or liability of…

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Read_738 – The Fruit of the Nostr Tree [Guy Swann]

"Nostr isn't just a social network, in a similar way that Bitcoin isn't just a transaction network. Both of these things are true, but they each miss the more significant elements of what they accomplish." — Guy Swann Yesterday I was consumed with a mental thread that I couldn't get out of my head, and…

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Read_737 – Is Your Money Safe During the Banking Crisis, Part 2 [Brad Mills]

"Much like how two nuclear bombs ended World War II, capital-crushing central bank policy rate hikes and Russian sanctions were like two nuclear bombs dropped on the economy and the banking system. The shock wave took one year to make its way around the world, and now we're dealing with the fallout.European banks like Deutsche Bank and Credit…

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Read_736 – Is Your Money Safe during the Banking Crisis, Part 1 [Brad Mills]

"Price inflation is the highest it’s been in decades. Labor participation is the lowest it’s been in decades. Wealth inequality is continually going in the wrong direction since 1971 and has accelerated during the QE period. The  bond markets are more volatile now than they have been in decades, and 2022 was the worst year for…

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Read_735 – When Bitcoin Meets AI [Svetski]

"The idea of a language user interface as the next step from the thumb tapping we’ve become used to over the past decade is fascinating, and what we should be thinking about is how to make these tools new “bicycles for the mind,” as Steve Jobs said about computers. It’s very important we push back…

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Chat_80 – Building the Ark with Burak

With the Introduction of Ark, the new 2nd layer payments and privacy protocol introduced with Read_734. I left with a lot of excitement, but I still had a ton of questions, so it felt like time for a chat with Burak, the creator of Ark. We dive into the bigger picture, how this is similar…

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Ai_002 – Bias & Truth in AI with Aleks Svetski

“This is the first time we’ve interacted with anything other than a parrot that can string together a coherent sentence. And it sounds stupid, but it’s actually true. So we are anthropomorphizing, we are projecting our own consciousness onto this thing, and we are immediately imagining Terminator, Minority Report, God knows what else we are imagining – the Ray Kurzweil’s of the world – we’re imagining that all of a sudden, that’s it, we unlocked it, basically we have discovered God. We did it. To me that’s such a mix of naivety, ignorance, and arrogance that it’s not even funny.”
~ Aleks Svetski
We have an awesome conversation kicking off episode 2 of AI Unchained today with Aleks Svetski, who is currently building a not-yet-public project in the AI world. He brings a very unique perspective that tries to bring back a bit of perspective to the imaginations gone wild on the world ending possibilities of AI. What is the truth of it? And can we instill “truth” in these machines? Can we make them “objective and unbiased?” Or is there something both inherently foolish and presuming in even the attempt of such a thing, that we can prevent making the same mistakes of the past. Don’t miss this crazy conversation.

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