AI, Web3, XR, Longevity & Wellbeing | March 27th 2023

A daily summary of all things emerging tech

AI

Best video channel idea: make money + get entertaining feedback + spread the word + Youtube views in your Tesla with FSD 11.3.3

Whole Mars Catalog @WholeMarsBlog

Can Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta 11.3.3 handle real ride-sharing rides? Let's find out... youtube.com/watch?v=nW-3Kc…

Existential thoughts of a StackOverflower on GPT-4

Peter Nixey @peternixey

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again. Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge. A… https://t.co/Oc5H6lLSX1

Who needs super models anymore…

Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats

Pt. 2 - Exploring lighting in Midjourney v5 So far we've looked at the effects of film stock and cameras (links at end of thread), here we'll look at a variety of ways you can prompt for lighting. 🧵 Part 2 of an ongoing series

Solve mazes with GPT-4 and LangChain

Eric Zhu @ekzhu

I built a maze navigating agent using @LangChainAI, with only two custom tools: (1) check next possible moves and (2) make a move. Using GPT-4, the agent can navigate 4x4 maze without getting lost/trapped. See if we can make it better using demonstration examples!

Infinite content in virtual worlds

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Roblox and Its Generative AI: How Game Creation, and the Metaverse, May Be Changing - CNET

cnet.comRoblox and Its Generative AI: How Game Creation, and the Metaverse, May Be ChangingTwo new creative tools are the start of possibly a lot more.

Infinite gaming

Greg Brockman @gdb

Using GPT-4 to write a new language game for me which I played, with GPT-4 as the judge. Actually had surprising amount of fun playing:

AI escape velocity

anton @abacaj

Human in the loop is quickly becoming another LLM in the loop (self-reflection). A model that can self improve is pretty incredible

Here’s an example

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

Good example of us not seeing max GPT-4 capability yet, imo. Prompt design, tool use, meta cognition strategies (eg idea of attempt, critique, retry, capabilities model, etc) are very likely to go a long way.

Eric Jang @ericjang11

Instead of finding the perfect prompt for an LLM (let's think step by step), you can ask LLMs to critique their outputs and immediately fix their own mistakes. Here's a fun example:

But it will need to be grounded on reality

Yann LeCun @ylecun

I have claimed that Auto-Regressive LLMs are exponentially diverging diffusion processes. Here is the argument: Let e be the probability that any generated token exits the tree of "correct" answers. Then the probability that an answer of length n is correct is (1-e)^n 1/

Perhaps text is a projection of the world?

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Text is a Projection of the World, Says OpenAI’s Sutskever

analyticsindiamag.comText is a Projection of the World: OpenAI’s SutskeverYann LeCun, Gary Marcus and other AI scientists disagree with Ilya’s assessment and believe that “LLMs don’t reliably understand the world”

Gary says no

Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus

“Text is a projection of the world”, as @ilyasut said at GTC, but that’s the problem; text is only a projection, like a moving shadow on the ground is a projection of an airplane above. LLMs analyze shadows, and don’t understand the difference between those shadows and reality.

Ye

Eluna AI @ElunaAI

If Ye grew up in South Central LA in the 80s and 90s.

Web3

When US bans, China embraces

CZ 🔶 Binance @cz_binance

When one door closes, other ones open. Chinese banks court crypto firms in Hong Kong | The Straits Times

straitstimes.comChinese banks court crypto firms in Hong Kong after mainland banCrypto firms rushing into Hong Kong after it opened its doors are finding a surprising source of potential support: China’s state-owned banks. Read more at straitstimes.com.

If the US dollar was a cryptocurrency

6529 @punk6529

pretend the US dollar is a crypto project. describe its tokeneconomics in that style

Hyperbitcoinification

Balaji @balajis

"History...tells us investors tend to flock into dollar-denominated assets during times of stress" No, take a longer historical lens. People exit devaluing currencies. That's the key difference vs 2008. USD is no longer too big to fail. Hope what comes next is BTC, and not RMB.

CoinDesk @CoinDesk

.@balajis recently predicted bitcoin will hit $1 million and forecast hyperinflation and a dollar crash. But doomsayers are ignoring other historical precedents. @godbole17 reports https://t.co/XUZXssjN2J

Philip Pilkington @philippilk

Its getting rough out there, folks.

Thoughts on token mapping in regulation

peterxing.eth🧢🦾 @peterxing

Crypto token mapping: KPMG’s submission to Treasury

kpmg.comCrypto token mapping: KPMG’s submission to TreasuryKPMG’s submission to Treasury on token mapping and developing appropriate crypto regulatory settings for the cryptocurrency sector.

XR

Not long now…

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Apple Reportedly Demoed Mixed-Reality Headset to Executives in the Steve Jobs Theater Last Week - MacRumors

macrumors.comApple Reportedly Demoed Mixed-Reality Headset to Executives in the Steve Jobs Theater Last WeekApple showcased its mixed-reality headset to the company’s top 100 executives in the Steve Jobs Theater last week, according to Bloomberg’s...

Mindblowing

JSFILMZ @JSFILMZ0412

Wow, I can't believe im actually having fun in #fortnite now with 2.0 @FNCreate #UEFN #FortniteCreative2 Full video: youtu.be/NMW-gsEK-5U

Ready Player Meta

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Meta’s new VR hand tracking feature almost feels like touching the future - The Verge

theverge.comMeta’s new hand tracking feature almost feels like touching the futureMeta’s hand tracking could become a big deal.

Wellbeing

You were the chosen one

peterxing.eth🧢🦾 @peterxing

.@sama says @elonmusk is his hero, reflecting on when Elon was in tears on @60Minutes wishing his heroes would see how hard the team are working. See the full clip here youtu.be/TbaQUGF1kU0 https://t.co/bV57qboWkB

I pay, therefore I am not a robot

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Given that modern AI can solve any “prove you’re not a robot” tests, it’s now trivial to spin up 100k human-like bots for less than a penny per account. Paid verification increases bot cost by ~10,000% & makes it much easier to identify bots by phone & CC clustering. Obvious… https://t.co/DtJxDDeLuw

YangGang

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang

What impact will AI have on work - and how does one prepare? On Monday NYT tech reporter and author of “Futureproof” @kevinroose joins andrewyang.com/podcast to discuss. Things are speeding up fast.

Implementing a universal basic income

Worldcoin @worldcoin

A fascinating conversation between @lexfridman and Worldcoin co-founder @sama centered around @OpenAI just went live. Around 1:40 in, they have brief discussion about AI driving the need for UBI — and about @worldcoin’s potential to make that possible. Only the beginning. 🪩

Lex Fridman @lexfridman

Here's my conversation with Sam Altman (@sama), CEO of OpenAI, the creator of GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and other incredible AI systems that are transforming human civilization. This conversation was truly fascinating, challenging, and eye-opening. https://t.co/LTNPaJ8YQq https://t.co/3Spr0623mc

Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

peterxing.eth🧢🦾 @peterxing

U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Danielle Ruiz youtube.com/live/gcnmDh_g9… via @USTranshumanist

youtube.comU.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Danielle Ruiz – March 26, 2023On Sunday, March 26, 2023, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Danielle Ruiz to discuss health interventions that could maximiz...

About Peter Xing

Peter Xing is a Global Singularity Group educator and practitioner on transhumanism and emerging technologies. He co-founded Transhumanism Australia and Transhuman Coin, a community of technologists dedicated to helping society transcend the limitations of our human biology using science and technology and funds scientific discovery and technological innovations that accelerate the transhumanism movement through decentralised finance. 

Peter also works on global emerging technology initiatives at KPMG including generative AI, blockchain, web3 and extended reality technologies to help organisations navigate and flourish in these unprecedented times of accelerating change and disruption. 

Peter is passionate about co-designing the strategy and developing solutions for businesses in preparation for the impact of disruption from emerging technologies including AI, Web3, XR and IoT in every industry. He manages projects which automate the delivery of actionable business insights to leadership using digital, data and design principles. Ultimately, Peter's mission is to accelerate R&D investment by governments and private sectors into science and technology to transcend the limitations of the human biological condition by enhancing our intelligence, healthy lifespan, and wellbeing.

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