AI, Web3, XR, Longevity & Wellbeing | March 30th 2023
A daily summary of all things emerging tech
AI
AI update discussion with Roy Sherfan
AI news, GPT4 extensions, Wolfram integration and Unified Theory search @peterxing 28th March 2023 youtu.be/zyNsx-0YoqQ via @RoySherfan @stephen_wolfram
Post-AGI
OpenAI Chief Scientist @ilyasut on what a post AGI world looks like:
"We will become more enlightened because we interact with an AGI ... Imagine talking to the best meditation teacher in history."
"Some people will choose to become part AI - to really expand their minds."
Humanity’s last tweet
AI will really need to be trained to care and have empathy for humans, cuz if it cares more about climate change and sustainable resources usage than keeping humanity going, there’s kind of an obvious solution it will come to…
@BillyM2k AI optimizing for the greatest understanding of the universe might be the right objective. Eliminating or stunting human civilization would reduce understanding.
Great summary of Sam Altman’s Lex Fridman podcast from David Wood
My summary of some noteworthy points from the recent interview given by Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, about GPT-4, ChatGPT, and AGI, to Lex Fridman (thread)
Old joke about agnostic technologists building artificial super intelligence to find out if there’s a God.
They finally finish & ask the question.
AI replies: “There is now, mfs!!”
OpenAI world tour with Sam Altman
Hang out with @sama on upcoming tour. Looking to engage with & hear feedback from users/devs/policymakers/anyone else interested in sharing.
Sam Altman @sama
Responsible AI vs moratorium
1/The call for a 6 month moratorium on making AI progress beyond GPT-4 is a terrible idea.
I'm seeing many new applications in education, healthcare, food, ... that'll help many people. Improving GPT-4 will help. Lets balance the huge value AI is creating vs. realistic risks.
2/There is no realistic way to implement a moratorium and stop all teams from scaling up LLMs, unless governments step in. Having governments pause emerging technologies they don’t understand is anti-competitive, sets a terrible precedent, and is awful innovation policy.
3/Responsible AI is important, and AI has risks. The popular press narrative that AI companies are running amok shipping unsafe code is just not true. The vast majority (sadly, not all) of AI teams take responsible AI and safety seriously.
4/A 6 month moratorium is not a practical proposal. To advance AI safety, regulations around transparency and auditing would be more practical and make a bigger difference. Let's also invest more in safety while we advance the technology, rather than stifle progress.
GPT-5 predictions
Task-driven Autonomous Agent
🔥1/8
Introducing "🤖 Task-driven Autonomous Agent"
An agent that leverages @OpenAI's GPT-4, @pinecone vector search, and @LangChainAI framework to autonomously create and perform tasks based on an objective.
"Paper": yoheinakajima.com/task-driven-au…
[More 🔽]
Uh oh..
GPT-4 and other #AI are just the beginning.... #AGI @Devs_FX
peterxing.eth🧢🦾 @peterxing
GPT-4 Siri voice assistant on Apple Watch
What if writing code was as simple as talking to your device?
Watch my GPT-4 voice assistant:
- take in a complex coding task
- write the code
- create a PR on my GitHub repo
All I had to do was tell it what to do.
This is the future of software.
Virtual AI companion
"any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" ✨ p sure i've never said this about anything we've made.
meet uncle rabbit—the first conversational holographic ai being powered by #ChatGPT @OpenAI powered by @LKGGlass
(hey @DBtodomundo 👋🏼)
Apple LLM
If it’s not clear yet, this is what I think will happen soon.
Every major tech company except Apple has announced their own LLM.
Apple have spent years perfecting their on-device neural engine. Capable of some absolute insane operations. Loads of compute in a small and energy… https://t.co/wKAfTGahcM
A new operating system for humanity
ChatGPT is fundamentally changing the way we interact with computers. We all agree about that.
However, I believe many experts are *underestimating* how big the paradigm shift will be.
My prediction: LLMs will replace the operating system, App Store and apps. Here’s why 👇
Google Bardstardisation
NEW: Prominent Google AI researcher resigned after warning Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and other senior execs that Bard—Google’s rival to ChatGPT—was *using data from ChatGPT*.
Big no-no in that world.
theinformation.com/articles/alpha… w/ @jon_victor_
HumanOS - priming our perceptions
Over 6 years ago the AI I built in my garage lab with piggy bank money made a massive discovery about human perception.
It can be primed.
I have been the most annoying here on presenting the reality of the HumanOS.
Today’s AI “knows” many of the edges … https://t.co/nfyewaJS8m
Effective accelerationism
YouChat LLM
@emollick you.com/chat - first LLM to be connected to the internet and have an app store with multi-modal responses that tell you stock prices, weather, generate images with AI, etc :)
Practical stuff with AI
A lot of people ask me how to effectively use AI to do stuff. So I created this updated guide, with lots of links and resources.
RunwayML Gen-2
I just clued in how insane text2vid will get soon. As crazy as this sounds, we will be able to generate movies from just minor prompts and the path there is pretty clear.
Turning ideas into executions. With Gen-1.
Try it for yourself at
Runway @runwayml
GPT-4 personalising student learning
GPT-4 will change the way that every student learns!
Imagine a single lesson being instantly converted into a version for visual learners, logical learners, etc.
We built an app that used GPT-4 to do exactly this - without code and in literal seconds.
Here's how we did it 👇🧵
Besties-GPT
Finally got GPT4 API access, so built an app to test it: here's Q+A assistant for all 121 episodes of the @theallinpod. You can ask any question abt the shows. It uses @OpenAI whisper model for audio -> text, @pinecone, @LangChainAI. App is here: besties-gpt.fly.dev
Midjourney updates
LangChain updates
Two new BIG features in BOTH Python and JS packages today:
🖼️ Replicate Model integration: they recently launched LLM hosting support, but also you can now get image generation ability in LangChain now as well
🎞️ Persistent Chat Message History (Redis, Dynamo)
👇
GitHub - logspace-ai/langflow: ⛓️ LangFlow is a UI for LangChain, designed with react-flow to provide an effortless way to experiment and prototype flows.
Codegen-2B instruction tuned vs standard
Compare codegen-2B instruction tuned vs. standard codegen-2B. It attends to instructions surprisingly well for a small model, inference is also quick (just 5-6GB of memory)
Fetching $40m
Blockchain startup Fetch.ai grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information | TechCrunch
Web3
Kraken F1
Kraken signed a multi-year global pact with F1 team Williams Racing, marking the crypto exchange’s first major sponsorship deal
Wen moon?
Michael Novogratz says he wouldn't be surprised if crypto prices move "substantially'" higher in the months ahead, though he isn't giving any price targets
Digital Assets (Market Regulation) Bill in Australia
Australian cryptocurrency exchanges could receive a licensing regime under a new bill introduced to the Parliament on Wednesday by Coalition Senator Andrew Bragg.
The Digital Assets (Market Regulation) Bill has now been referred to the @AuSenate Economics Committee for an inquiry. We will want to hear your thoughts.
VentureCrowd Web3 Platform
37% of women in Singapore invested in crypto
In Singapore, female investors are making their mark on the crypto landscape. With 37% of women invested in the #crypto market, marking a 7% increase since 2022.
Continue reading on @itscrypto_news
crypto.news/women-and-gen-…
FedCoin in freefall
Transhuman Coin ramping up utility
A project developed on the #Binance #BNB network, which will soon have its bridge to #ETH and in collaboration with @iotex_io .
A project to invest in your #Health your well-being and your skills. A #transhumanist project.
$THC #THC #Transhumancoin
1 million tech jobs in US at risk due to policy on crypto
1 million tech jobs are at risk of going overseas. As the U.S. goes down a path of regulatory uncertainty, the EU, UK, UAE, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and Japan are all creating environments for crypto to flourish so that they can capitalize on the next wave of innovation.
Liability of the DAO in the US
EU IS embracing crypto
Gemini preps overseas derivatives exchange
On-chain verification
Binance’s On-Chain Balance Stands at $64B, Nansen Data Shows.
Blockchain is transparent.
#Binance handles billions of both deposits and withdrawals daily. We saw a bit of net outflow yesterday, smaller than "BUSD" or "FTX" days.
Bicasso
Annnnnd… voilà ! 🎉
100k NFTs minted in 5 hours only (instead of 12h anticipated)!
CZ 🔶 Binance @cz_binance
XR
HFS Research
HFS Roundtable: Where is the metaverse heading: How can we create a business impact? - HFS Research hfsresearch.com/hfs-roundtable…
Fornite Creator 2.0 and Unreal Engine 5
Photoscan props to @FNCreate #FortniteCreative2 #uefn using @LumaLabsAI #madeinfortnite
Full Tutorial:
youtu.be/qcGn0jCPEhA
State of Unreal
Apple WWDC June 5 to 9
Longevity
Want to live to a healthy 150?
Want to live to 150? The world needs more humans.
Believe it or not, we have an underpopulation problem to solve — and there’s good reason to believe aging isn’t inevitable.
TLDR:
1. More humans = more ideas = more resources.
2. Solve aging = solve most lnkd.in/gAyEmh3J… https://t.co/xUqg8sgsSj
No one who’s happy & healthy wants to die, ever. A great read @RaianyRomanni 👏 bostonglobe.com/2023/03/29/opi…
Epigenetic age acceleration in oncological trials
Inclusion of epigenetic age acceleration in oncological trials
thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…
@LancetLongevity
Wellbeing
Post Humanity Forward
Heading on @CNBC around 7 pm tonight to talk about putting a pause on large-scale deployment of AI and how the incentives right now are leading us toward unprecedented risks. https://t.co/udpnC0Mhep
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang
“I think we have to start looking at different ways to get people resources in an era where AI is going to take millions of jobs,” says @AndrewYang about the impact of AI on employment.
Certain industries and organizations will be more aggressive adopting AI than others. How will these changes play out? And how will they affect jobs? NYT tech reporter and author of “Futureproof” @kevinroose joins andrewyang.com/podcast to discuss AI’s likely impact on workers.
These are powerful new tools that will have profound impacts on the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Right now the incentives are to move as quickly as possible even as we remain uncertain what the impacts will be. We should be more judicious and give organizations,… https://t.co/fLw4ROncMk
Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus
AI wouldn't exist without all the data collected from us to train it.
A Citizen's AI Dividend is repayment for that, a collective share of the benefits, in a world where AI out-competes average workers.
Optimism & abundance
Every day we have a choice between ‘fear & scarcity’ vs. ‘optimism & abundance’.
Between going extinct, and evolving.
We often say, "this time is different," but this time really IS different. The world is about to change forever.
Boring
Prufrock II returns home after completing another Bastrop tunnel! Great job by TBC team in advancing rapid retrieval and continuous mining. And a subtle cameo by Prufrock III…
Towards a multiplanetary civilisation
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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