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☆ Meet the former child prodigy who played 'Moneyball' with GPUs and built a $3 million AI model for $30,000
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Daimon Labs, by contrast, had raised $1.5 million from a handful of VCs. It was around then that he started Daimon Labs alongside Dhruv Malik and Xiang Zhang to pursue the dream of what he calls "machines of loving grace". He ignored every metric of success for an AI model, except one: perplexity. It's a measure of how certain the AI model is of its predictions. But even with ruthlessly optimized hardware and that single-minded focus, Daimon Labs still couldn't afford to build the model Benmalek was envisioning.

Persons: —, Ryan Benmalek, wouldn't, Benmalek, Isaac Asimov, Dhruv Malik, Xiang Zhang, Michael Lewis, Daimon, Brooklyn Organizations: Service, Business, Daimon Labs, The University of Washington, Cornell, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Labs, Lambda, Daimon Locations: Silicon, Seattle, Moneyball, Montreal, Brooklyn, North Carolina, Canada

☆ Apple TV+ is raising prices and expanding its content ambitions — here are the shows and movies it wants now, per leaked Hollywood agency documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple TV+ is a small but influential player in the streaming wars. And Apple has signaled it wants to grow its streaming content slate at a time when other media companies are contracting. Apple is "always looking" for films that "highlight humanity," according to one of the agency documents. As a side hustle of a massive retail business, Apple TV+ can fly under the radar, insulated from economic pressures that have roiled the entertainment business. (Apple TV+ was the first streamer to win the best picture Oscar, in 2022, for "CODA," which it acquired at the Sundance Film Festival).

Persons: Martin Scorcese's, Reese Witherspoon, Apple, execs, Apple hasn't, Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso, Rose Byrne, Seth Rogen, Jon Stewart's, Isaac Asimov's, John Krasinski, Stephen Curry, Ridley Scott's, Napoleon, They're Organizations: Apple, Netflix, Disney, New York Times, Major League Soccer, Major League Baseball, New England Patriots, Sundance Locations: China

☆ These 3 science fiction stories inspired Elon Musk and explain his business choices — but critics say he's missing the point
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

These stories' focus on great men and amazing technology defying the rules could explain his business choices. Elon Musk is one of the most divisive tech and business personas of our time, and there is much chatter about what shapes his beliefs and business choices. Beyond these, however, a consistent source of influence from his childhood to today is his self-professed love of science fiction. "That is Musk's guide for living, yet he is using that guide to justify doing the very thing that the story is opposed to," she added. Elon Musk loves "Deus Ex" and its cyberpunk styleElon Musk appears to be a huge fan of the 2000 science fiction video game, "Deus Ex."

Persons: Elon Musk, Isaac Asimov's, Douglas Adams, he's, dystopias, Napoleon, William MacAskill, Walter Isaacson, Musk, xAI Douglas Adams, —, Adams, Jill Lepore, it's, Hari Seldon, Jonny Diamond, takeaways, JC Denton Organizations: SpaceX, Guardian Locations: South Africa

☆ ‘Lunar Codex’ aims to bring human art to the moon
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Nicknamed “Moon Museum,” it was attached to a leg of the spacecraft and then left on the moon with it. Called the Lunar Codex, it will be split across three launches planned over the next 18 months. The artworks that make up the Lunar Codex will be miniaturized in nickel NanoFiche. Peralta originally intended the Lunar Codex to include only his own works, such as "Sonnets from the Labrador," but reconceived the project as a global endeavor during the pandemic. Jack Burns, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado Boulder, thinks the Lunar Codex is a cool concept.

Persons: —, Andy Warhol, Samuel Peralta —, ” Peralta, Peralta, I’ve, ”, “, Isaac Asimov's, Samuel Peralta, Mazzy, Olesya Dzhurayeva, Connie Karleta, Samuel Peralta “, Daniela De Paulis, ” Paulis, Jack Burns, “ I’m, Carl Sagan, Timothy Ferris, Bach, Beethoven …, Chuck Berry, Ferris, ” Ferris, ‘ Kilroy Organizations: CNN, NASA, “, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Virgin, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Colorado Locations: Canadian, North America, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Russia, American, Netherlands, Labrador, University of Colorado Boulder

☆ ChatGPT Secret Training Data: the Top 50 Books AI Bots Are Reading
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

To figure out what GPT-4 has read, they quizzed it on its knowledge of various books, as if it were a high-school English student. One way to answer the question is to look for information that could have come from only one place. Genre — sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror — is, broadly speaking, more interesting, partially because these books have plots where things actually happen. Bamman's GPT-4 list is a Borgesian library of episodic connections, cliffhangers, third-act complications, and characters taking arms against seas of troubles (and whales). See what a bot makes of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," maybe, or Sheri Tepper's "Grass."

☆ Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Mirrors the Myth of the Wild West
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

As Silicon Valley Bank went down the tubes, it wasn't surprising that the loudest mouths in Techworld started demanding that the federal government cover everyone's losses. They were pioneers on the frontier of tech and finance, and as such they acted the way pioneers always do. Myths of the frontiersIt's unfashionable for people in the tech industry to dispute the central role that government-funded infrastructure and academic projects have played in the development of Silicon Valley and the digital age. Shout down into Silicon Valley and you'll hear echoes of this same pioneer myth. They see themselves as heroes not of a Western frontier but of space — the Final one — as refracted by the legendary writers of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

☆ Baristas in San Francisco went on strike. Their robot co-workers went right on serving
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

For three days last month, 1,000 food-service workers at SFO went on strike over wages and working conditions. For decades, robots have been replacing, or at least nudging aside, human labor. But at SFO, robot baristas didn't simply replace humans — they crossed a picket line. Cafe X robot baristas stayed on the job when food-service workers went on strike at San Francisco International Airport last month. The short version is: Every new robot per thousand human workers reduces employment by 0.2 percentage points and decreases wages by 0.42%.

☆ 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-05 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

In the case of Elon Musk v. Charismatic Megafauna, the agency intends to publish its final report in late April. Musk went on: "Either explicitly or implicitly some people seem to think that humans are a blight on the Earth's surface. Musk is talking about existential risk, the idea that something — an asteroid, a rogue artificial intelligence — might kill every human on Earth. And if you assume that future human minds will "mainly be implemented in computational hardware instead of biological neuronal wetware," as Bostrom does, you end up with a mind-boggling 1054 human lives. Musk has made the defense of "future life" his mission.

The Lord of the RingsUnul din cele mai așteptate seriale ale anului. Acțiunea filmului e setată cu mult timp înainte de acțiunea din Hobbit sau Lord of the Rings (triologia). [1]Serialul a fost întâmpinat în mod pozitiv de critici, care au lăudat caracterizarea personajelor, a distribuției și a atmosferei care aduce omagiu filmelor științifico-fantastice din anii 1980. The Wheel of TimeThe Wheel of Time este plasat într-un univers extins, unde magia există, dar numai femeile o pot folosi. The Witcher (Season 2)Bazat pe best-sellerul fantasy cu același nume, The Witcher este o poveste despre destin și familie.

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