Token Wisdom ✨ 4th Edition

$Turbo Meme Coin, Vice Goes Bankrupt, Civilization Destroying AI, AI Drake vs. Google, Human NeRFs, Human Desires, Three Waves of AI Development, History of LLMs, Oura Ring Can Replace Your Keys, Mercedes-Benz uses VR/AR everywhere, Bye Bye Journalism, Story Times, VR Racial Empathy, Amazon is Hiding Everywhere, Anthropic Unveils Claude

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Khayyam Wakil
May 15, 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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Listen to this episode from Hot Buttered Soul on Spotify. The 2nd Edition hosted by @iamkhayyam. Guest starring: The O'Jays, Galt MacDermot, Joe Cocker, Otis Redding, Bob James, Johnny Pate, Ann Pebbles, Ramon Morris, Johnny Hammond, Lakeside, Instant Funk, Eugene Wilde, and Betty Davis.

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The most dangerous phrase in the language is “We’ve always done it this way.” 

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The Making of the $Turbo Meme Coin With ChatGPT

The joke that became a reality. This time it’s a story of collaboration and co-creation between AI, the artist (Rhett Mankind), and the community. It’s a story of how far an experiment can go.

hackernoon.com

Once Valued at Nearly $6 Billion, Vice Files for Bankruptcy

The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday in New York, listing liabilities in the range of $500 million to $1 billion.

businessinsider.com

Paper Claims AI May Be a Civilization-Destroying "Great Filter"

If aliens are out there, why haven't they contacted us yet? It may be, a new paper argues, that they were wiped out by superhuman AI.

futurism.com

AI Drake Just Set An Impossible Legal Trap for Google

Google has to make some big decisions about fair use, YouTube, and building AI tools of its own.

theverge.com

HumanRF: High-Fidelity Neural Radiance Fields for Humans in Motion

To close the gap to production-level quality, we introduce HumanRF, a 4D dynamic neural scene representation that captures full-body appearance in motion from multi-view video input, and enables playback from novel, unseen viewpoints.

synthesiaresearch.github.io

5 Modern Movements Reflecting Human Desires, Not Algorithms'

What are the cultural needs to be addressed by organizations?

zine.kleinkleinklein.com

What Google Trends Tells Us About the Three Waves of AI Development

Google Trends is a useful tool to observe how trends are changing for specific topics. Seeking paradigm shifts in AI technology: "Expert System," "Deep Learning," and "Generative AI" to observe the results.

www.digitimes.com

A Brief History of Language Models

Breakthroughs on the way towards GPT — explained for non-experts. A language model is a machine learning model, that predicts the next word given a sequence of words. It is as simple as that!

towardsdatascience.com

Future Oura Smart Rings Could Feature Payment Support and Replace Your Keys

Smart ring maker Oura has announced the acquisition of digital identification startup Proxy, which could potentially lead to support for future features relating to contactless payments and smart door unlocking.

www.wareable.com

How Mercedes-Benz Uses Virtual And Augmented Reality To Sell Cars, Train Staff, And Create New Customer Experiences

For engineering, marketing, driver, and customer experiences, as well as employee training, enhancing various aspects of the car manufacturing process and transforming customer interactions and staff development.

forbes.com

Google Unveils Plan to Demolish the Journalism Industry Using AI

Google just revealed vision for AI-integrated search — and that vision, apparently, involves cutting digital publishers off at the knees.

futurism.com

Retailer in Portugal Turns Hold Times Into Storytimes

Embark on a literary adventure while waiting for customer support.

musebycl.io

New Virtual Reality Technology Seeks to Teach Racial Empathy

The latest generation of put-yourself-in-their-shoes VR projects allow users to take part in scenes that mix game-playing with "what would you do?" scenarios — and that tackle issues such as racism and discrimination by encouraging empathy.

axios.com

Amazon Could Be Hiding Anywhere

Including video games. Amazon’s new “Amazon Anywhere” shopping experience lets you shop for real-world goods inside of games and virtual worlds.

theverge.com

Anthropic Releases AI Constitution to Promote Ethical Behavior and Development

Anthropic unveiled its constitution for Claude, which aims to ensure that the AI system adheres to a set of ethical guidelines and principles, thereby making its behavior more helpful, harmless and honest.

venturebeat.com

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