Token Wisdom ✨ 14th Edition

AI-generated synthetic data, AI leadership, NFC technology, brain activity and intelligence, magic mushroom use, daring architectural designs, electric motors, chatbots, the attention economy, brand relationships, AI-generated art, AI in journalism, stablecoin transactions, EV batteries, TikTok and Warner Music Group's licensing agreement, TalkToVid for interactive video experiences, and the Harvard data scandal. #tokenwisdom

Khayyam Wakil
July 24, 2023

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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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A journey of a billion nodes begins with a single prompt.

— Khayyam Wakil

🔮 A curated collection of consumed knowledge 🔮

_W29_{— content consumed and reviewed during July 16-21th, 2023}

AI Developers Are Quietly Training AI Using AI-Generated Data

There will come a time when AI models are built on data that was made by other AI models — and for some companies, that time is now.

futurism.com

The Hottest New Job is Head of AI" and Nobody Knows What They Do

America’s biggest companies are hiring AI leadership as fast as they can.

vox.com

Would You Wear Face Stickers Embedded with NFCs?

Rtfkt and Shu Uemura have partnered to experiment with a future of beauty that is ‘offline, online and on-chain’.

voguebusiness.com

Brain Speed vs Intelligence: New Study Disputes Long-Held Beliefs

Do intelligent people think faster than others when solving problems? New findings by researchers question this deeply ingrained belief in the field of intelligence research.

scitechdaily.com

‘Magic’ Mushroom Use by Young Adults Has Nearly Doubled

Consumption of “magic” mushrooms and other hallucinogens by young adults nearly doubled over the past three years, a new study has found.

thehill.com

This Retreat Upends the Traditional Island Structure with its Nearly Complete Lack of Walls

For architecture studio Heliotrope, the location of their project Lopez Lookout was easily their most challenging one yet.

plainmagazine.com

Here’s How Koenigsegg’s ‘Dark Matter’ Electric Motor Makes 800 HP

Koenigsegg has developed one small electric motor before, however its new 800-horsepower "Dark Matter" unit is particularly impressive.

thedrive.com

ChatGPT Can Match the Top 1% of Creative Human Thinkers, Says New Study

"We had all been exploring with ChatGPT, and we noticed it had been doing some interesting things that we didn't expect," the study author said.

cnbc.com

In The Future, Our Attention Will Be Sold

Modern technology isn’t changing us. It’s changing society. The difference is important to understand.

markmanson.net

Only a Third of Customers are Happy with their Brand Relationships

R/GA focused on four main categories – tech, financial services, retail, and hospitality – to see how different attributes stack up when it comes to customer satisfaction.

martechcube.com

DeviantArt’s Decision to Label AI Images Creates a Vicious Debate Among Artists and Users

The debate touches on the core of how we define art and who gets to make it. And creators on both sides are furious.

artnews.com

Coming To Your Internet, Whether You Like It or Not: More AI-Generated Stories

Why G/O Media is pressing ahead with bot-written content.

vox.com

Gnosis Visa Debit Card Debuts in Europe, Letting Users Buy with Euro Stablecoin

The card and its payment network, Gnosis Pay, have been in development for over a year according to Gnosis CEO Martin Köppelmann.

blockworks.co

It’s 100 Degrees Out, What’s Happening to Your EV’s Battery?

Sitting in extreme heat—or, even worse, charging in extreme heat—can age your EV's battery faster than normal.

fastcompany.com

TikTok and Warner Music Group Ink ‘First of its Kind’ Deal

TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew, and WMG CEO, Robert Kyncl jointly announce fresh pact that includes scope for development of new economic models.

musicbusinessworldwide.com

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So, you can chat with your PDF, but can you chat with any video?

Ready to start a conversation? With someone in a recorded video? Just enter the URL of the video and get its transcript! For best results, choose a video with only one person speaking and make sure it’s less than twenty minutes.

talkto.video

🤡 Time Well Spent

I “jailbroke” a Google Nest Mini so that you can run your own LLM’s, agents and voice models.
Here’s a demo using it to manage all my messages (with help from @onbeeper)
🔊 on, and wait for surprise guest!
I thought hard about how to best tackle this and why, see 🧵
— Justin Alvey (@justLV)
Jul 18, 2023

And the 70b LLaMa chat drop on Perplexity Labs! Eg: Implement barebones linear regression in numpy, on labs.pplx.ai! Have fun! The latency will improve a lot in the coming days!
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas)
Jul 22, 2023

BOOOM!
In my garage lab we have made some astonishing milestones:
I now have 64 AI models running as a counsel of experts.
Each LLM AI model is tuned to be an expert in one of 50 domains. 14 models measure and meditate the results and form an outputs.
The power of many!
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele)
Jul 17, 2023

Replies and quote tweets to this are pretty funny
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin)
Jul 24, 2023

Odd that you never see good hearted, intelligent, successful people talking shit in the comment section. Feel like there’s a reason to that.
— Parker McCollum (@ParkerMcCollum)
Jul 19, 2023

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I’ve been playing around with an automated version of the show, which you can listen to below-below, however, this one that is just below is 100% me and think we’re going to keep it this way. In an attempt to better the machines, I completed this entire recap in one take. Automation 0, Human 1 🎉

“A journey of a billion nodes begins with a single prompt.”

— Khayyam Wakil

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✨ Token Wisdom - W28 (Last week and lots of AI)

The 13th Edition — This week's curated collection of consumed knowledge focuses on the latest developments in technology, such as AI, AR/VR, Quantum Computing, and Digital Payments. We explore topics ranging from AI Mafias to Dark Patterns, Reinventing Music Creation to the potential of the Intuition Economy, and the ethical implications of these advances. We also examine the potential of sound.xyz, artists fighting the good fight, fashionably Pharrell, debunking illusions, and a lot of Windex for this architectural vessel in Greece. Plus, application of the week!

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The internet is big. This version of it is nerd sized. Try it!

Collection of content that has been perused, curated, and finely trimmed.

Solid links all day long in here. There are folders within folders of all these folders unfolding folds.

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