Alexander Kruel
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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality” ― Seneca
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Watch Google's Waymo self-driving car avoid calamity with a scooter rider
December 17, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Watch Google's Waymo self-driving car avoid calamity with a scooter rider
Google's new state-of-the-art AI video model is absolutely brilliant: blog.google/technology/g...
Prompt for the video: A pirate canon shooting meatballs into a spicy hotpot
Prompt for the video: A pirate canon shooting meatballs into a spicy hotpot
December 17, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Google's new state-of-the-art AI video model is absolutely brilliant: blog.google/technology/g...
Prompt for the video: A pirate canon shooting meatballs into a spicy hotpot
Prompt for the video: A pirate canon shooting meatballs into a spicy hotpot
What is a minimal set of axioms that you have to believe in to be able to do science and self-improvement?
Here is what OpenAI o1 suggested:
Here is what OpenAI o1 suggested:
December 15, 2024 at 2:45 PM
What is a minimal set of axioms that you have to believe in to be able to do science and self-improvement?
Here is what OpenAI o1 suggested:
Here is what OpenAI o1 suggested:
🌘 Earthrise was stunning as Alex’s ship neared the moon base. Fully automated docking gave him time to enjoy the view—yet, unease lingered.
December 15, 2024 at 12:50 PM
🌘 Earthrise was stunning as Alex’s ship neared the moon base. Fully automated docking gave him time to enjoy the view—yet, unease lingered.
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AI: Microsoft Phi-4 is announced: It's a 14B parameter LM trained heavily on synthetic data, with very strong performance, even exceeding GPT-4o on GPQA and MATH benchmarks.
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December 14, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Google Gemini 2.0: “2025 will be the year of AI agents and Gemini 2.0 will be the generation of models that underpin our agent-based work. Gemini 2.0 Flash outperforms even 1.5 Pro at twice the speed.” blog.google/technology/g...
Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Today, we’re announcing Gemini 2.0, our most capable AI model yet.
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December 11, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Google Gemini 2.0: “2025 will be the year of AI agents and Gemini 2.0 will be the generation of models that underpin our agent-based work. Gemini 2.0 Flash outperforms even 1.5 Pro at twice the speed.” blog.google/technology/g...
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AI: Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space — Introduces a new paradigm for LLM reasoning called Chain of Continuous Thought (COCONUT) https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769 [S...
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December 11, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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o1: A Technical Primer www.lesswrong.com/posts/byNYzs...
o1: A Technical Primer — LessWrong
> TL;DR: In September 2024, OpenAI released o1, its first "reasoning model". This model exhibits remarkable test-time scaling laws, which complete a…
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December 10, 2024 at 2:49 PM
o1: A Technical Primer www.lesswrong.com/posts/byNYzs...
OpenAI announces a new version of its video generation model Sora.
THE VIDEO BELOW IS 100% AI GENERATED.
You can watch the live announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKV...
You will be able to access the model at sora.com later today.
THE VIDEO BELOW IS 100% AI GENERATED.
You can watch the live announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKV...
You will be able to access the model at sora.com later today.
December 9, 2024 at 6:15 PM
OpenAI announces a new version of its video generation model Sora.
THE VIDEO BELOW IS 100% AI GENERATED.
You can watch the live announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKV...
You will be able to access the model at sora.com later today.
THE VIDEO BELOW IS 100% AI GENERATED.
You can watch the live announcement here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKV...
You will be able to access the model at sora.com later today.
Meet Willow: Google’s state-of-the-art quantum chip. It's the first quantum chip to show exponential error reduction as qubits scale, paving the way for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. blog.google/technology/r...
December 9, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Meet Willow: Google’s state-of-the-art quantum chip. It's the first quantum chip to show exponential error reduction as qubits scale, paving the way for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. blog.google/technology/r...
The animal-human dichotomy fails to carve reality at its joints. In a counterfactual scenario where another species from the genus Homo still existed but was demonstrably less intelligent, this distinction would lose its power to criticize positions like vegetarianism or racism.
December 8, 2024 at 1:24 PM
The animal-human dichotomy fails to carve reality at its joints. In a counterfactual scenario where another species from the genus Homo still existed but was demonstrably less intelligent, this distinction would lose its power to criticize positions like vegetarianism or racism.
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December 7, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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If Satoshi had implemented 3 technically identical cryptocurrencies called Bitcoin, Memecoin, and Shitcoin, one of them would probably be worth much more than the others today.
December 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM
If Satoshi had implemented 3 technically identical cryptocurrencies called Bitcoin, Memecoin, and Shitcoin, one of them would probably be worth much more than the others today.
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Sam Altman: I expect that in 2025, we will have systems that people look at, even people who are skeptical of current progress, and say, “Wow, I did not expect that.”
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgU...
Finally, a prediction that everyone can judge for themselves very soon.
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgU...
Finally, a prediction that everyone can judge for themselves very soon.
OpenAI's Altman: Here's what to expect from AI in 2025
YouTube video by CNBC Television
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December 5, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Sam Altman: I expect that in 2025, we will have systems that people look at, even people who are skeptical of current progress, and say, “Wow, I did not expect that.”
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgU...
Finally, a prediction that everyone can judge for themselves very soon.
Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQgU...
Finally, a prediction that everyone can judge for themselves very soon.
Google just introduced 🧞Genie 2 🧞: A large-scale foundation world model creating a path to unlimited environments for training and evaluating embodied agents.
Read more: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Read more: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
December 4, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Google just introduced 🧞Genie 2 🧞: A large-scale foundation world model creating a path to unlimited environments for training and evaluating embodied agents.
Read more: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Read more: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
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Ok, it is yesterdays news already, but good night sleep is important.
After 7 amazing years at Google Brain/DM, I am joining OpenAI. Together with @xzhai.bsky.social and @giffmana.ai, we will establish OpenAI Zurich office. Proud of our past work and looking forward to the future.
After 7 amazing years at Google Brain/DM, I am joining OpenAI. Together with @xzhai.bsky.social and @giffmana.ai, we will establish OpenAI Zurich office. Proud of our past work and looking forward to the future.
December 4, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Ok, it is yesterdays news already, but good night sleep is important.
After 7 amazing years at Google Brain/DM, I am joining OpenAI. Together with @xzhai.bsky.social and @giffmana.ai, we will establish OpenAI Zurich office. Proud of our past work and looking forward to the future.
After 7 amazing years at Google Brain/DM, I am joining OpenAI. Together with @xzhai.bsky.social and @giffmana.ai, we will establish OpenAI Zurich office. Proud of our past work and looking forward to the future.
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AI: The Year Algorithms Learn to Act https://tomtunguz.com/agents/
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Counting the number of black dots in this image is the human equivalent of asking an LLM how many 'r's there are in the word strawberry.
December 1, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Counting the number of black dots in this image is the human equivalent of asking an LLM how many 'r's there are in the word strawberry.
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AI: Alibaba takes on OpenAI's o1 with new "Reasoning" AI model QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown (32B beats O1 mini and competes with O1 preview) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eM7...
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After over 100 years of planning, Thessaloniki got a metro. The works exposed 300,000 archeological finds spanning millennia: a Roman-era thoroughfare, ancient Greek burial sites and mosaics, Byzantine and Ottoman artifacts. Some are showcased inside www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1254...
Ancient meets modern as a new Thessaloniki metro showcases archaeological treasures | eKathimerini.com
Thessaloniki is getting a brand-new subway system that will showcase archaeological discoveries made during construction that held up the project for decades.
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November 30, 2024 at 12:54 PM
After over 100 years of planning, Thessaloniki got a metro. The works exposed 300,000 archeological finds spanning millennia: a Roman-era thoroughfare, ancient Greek burial sites and mosaics, Byzantine and Ottoman artifacts. Some are showcased inside www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1254...
