Token Wisdom ✨ 12th Edition

The Fediverse, Toyota's AR HUD, LLMentalist Effect, Darker Side of Research, Weirdest AI Unicorn, Hallucinations in AI, XMTP Web3 Messaging, MIT's MegaWatt Motor, How Do We Teach Children to Survive AI, Samsung XR Headset Delayed, Quantum Computer Built on Sound Waves, GPT Caught Feelings, NL-Robots, Decline of Critical Thinking, Record Setting Solar, and the Philosophy of Accelerationism

Khayyam Wakil
July 10, 2023

🌤 gm! gm! ☀️
Keeping up in this new generative mega-multi-meta-DAO-verse is hard to GPT. That's why I package up a small part of the internet that catches my eye and stirs my mind and share it with you.

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Generalists can see the big picture. They can see the forest for the trees. They can tell us deeper stories of our times. They are more apt to see macro.

— Randall Wallace

🔮 A curated collection of consumed knowledge 🔮

Your Next Social Media Platforms are Already Here

Tired of today’s social media mess? Pioneers say alternatives will be principled, decentralized platforms: the ‘fediverse.’

medium.com

Toyota's AR Goggles Set To Replace Head-Up Display

Toyota has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a new approach to augmented reality glasses that could potentially replace traditional head-up displays (HUDs).

carbuzz.com

The LLMentalist Effect: How Chat-Based LLMs Replicate the Mechanism of a Psychic’s Con

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour.

softwarecrisis.dev

A Researcher Who Publishes a Study Every Two Days Reveals the Darker Side of Science

Spain’s most prolific scientific academic — meat expert José Manuel Lorenzo — put his name on 176 papers last year, exposing an underworld of shady practices

english.elpais.com

One of the Weirdest AI Unicorns Lets You Talk to Albert Einstein, Elon Musk or Mickey Mouse

“I joke that we’re not going to replace Google. We’re going to replace your mom,” CEO Noam Shazeer says, hastily adding, “We don’t want to replace anybody’s mom.”

fortune.com

Hallucinations in AI

In the tech-pocalypse desert of 2023, only the AI oasis can save us.

luttig.substack.com

Is Web3 Messaging Going to Replace WhatsApp and iMessage? Co-founder of XMTP Explains

Web3 messaging with Shane Mac, co-founder of XMTP — an open protocol and network for secure Web3 messaging — who explains the differences between Web2 and Web3 messaging.

cointelegraph.com

MIT Invented a New MegaWatt Motor That Could Revolutionize Air Travel

Researchers with MIT have created a new megawatt motor that could completely change how we travel through the air.

bgr.com

How We Can Teach Children So They Survive AI – and Cope with Whatever Comes Next

It’s not enough to build learning around a single societal shift. Students should be trained to handle a rapidly changing world.

theguardian.com

The Apple Vision Pro Means Samsung's Own XR Headset Has Been Delayed

The wait continues…

techradar.com

A New Kind of Quantum Computer Could Be Built on The Strange Physics of Sound Waves

When you turn on a lamp to brighten a room, you are experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy.

sciencealert.com

Holy Cow, ChatGPT Can Create Words for Emotions We Never Knew We Had

Now I have globanxiety.

www.creativebloq.com

Sereact's PickGPT Lets Users Instruct Robots with Natural Language

Sereact has announced PickGPT, a robotics transformer that combines large language models with the company's computer vision technology.

therobotreport.com

The Decline of Critical Thinking Skills

Here's how to get back this important life skill.

psychologytoday.com

‘Miracle material’ smashes solar panel efficiency threshold

Breakthrough paves way for mass-production of ultra-efficient perovskite solar cells

independent.co.uk

🤡 Time Well Spent

Midjourney just released the feature “Panning”.
It allows you to expand an image in certain direction. And it is AMAZING.
Here are 10 great examples:
— Alvaro Cintas (@dr_cintas)
Jul 4, 2023

Countdown to Sound opening to all artists!
We are very close to opening our doors to everyone.
Time to bring you behind the scenes.
Here’s how we’ve been preparing Sound as the best possible place to bring your music onchain.
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— sound.xyz (🎧,🎧) (@soundxyz_)
Jul 4, 2023

yeah the world is burning to the ground and our climate is fucked and everyone is poor now and we're all dying but look at this $2,425,000,000 ball we made
— berd (@berdyaboi)
Jul 7, 2023

BlackRock CEO 🤯
“Ethereum is the world supercomputer of finance, $ETH is programmable ultra-sound money, and bitcorn is more boomer than I am”
— Crypto Texan | Polygon Labs 🦇🔊💜 (@Crypto_Texan)
Jul 5, 2023

I don’t care if this is true.
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans)
Jul 4, 2023

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