The AI Awakening, my online minicourse (just 3 hours to complete) is now live @Coursera.

Modules with Jack Clark, Mira Murati, Alexandr Wang, Laura D. Tyson, Bindu Reddy, Mustafa Suleyman, and Eric Schmidt.

The enrollment link is in the next post

Trying to write but 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧's advice to never use the word 'had' is messing with my head. It's exhausting to always have to show, not tell!
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2023/12/advanc…

Apple CarPlay plus my Honda crashes so often that it feels like a genuine hazard.

RJ Andrews James Cham Stewart Brand Steven Johnson Also this exhibit card and photo which is one of the best summaries of being a founding engineer at a startup that I’ve ever seen.

The LLM’s are terrific little toolmaker. We just need to give them a few nudges!

Is there a friendly popular history of metal? (the material) I sense that much magic like mechanical computers and bicycles was only unlocked once material science advanced.

cc Stewart Brand James Cham Steven Johnson

Unfortunately, I suspect the solution will be to add a 712th error message:
“This presented the trader with 711 warning messages, consisting of hard block and soft block messages, listed in a single alert where only the first 18 lines of alerts were immediately visible unless the

On the one hand, we’re told that everyone has short attentions and we’re losing a sense of common knowledge. On the other hand, a 4-hour review of the failed Star Wars hotel got 4.9 million views in 6 days.

I love the [[Minimum Viable Demos]] website. If all you see is the boring vertical mobile version on your phone…turn it sideways! (and/or visit the glorious desktop version)
mvdemos.com

let us always remember the nation’s leading graduates as old enough to be critically thinking, and young enough to not yet be indoctrinated in rhetoric of the past

true in entrepreneurship, true in politics, true in markets

You don't need a fancy BI tool to do good data analysis. You just need to have a process for looking at numbers often enough to know exceptional variation when you see it.

Typing fast has been an undervalued superpower. What happens now that dictation is almost good enough?

Fun to see Hans Tung at the newly branded Notable Capital office…

Why not more document-centric enterprise software? Feels like it would result in more resilient, flexible systems.

This is a great reminder that a lot of startups are all about getting great people together and figuring out a path, rather than starting with a clear idea and taking it all the way.

Discord such a great example!

I’d like to start an AI Interface Innovation Lab to explore and discover how to create a new kind of virtual operating system.

My goal is to build an OS that runs smoothly in a web browser or as a local app, allowing you to create and consume media in whatever way feels most

> How did you find your way to Mucker?

> Kim: We got we got introduced to Will and Erik through our legal contact. They believed in the vision from the beginning with Will and Erik both having worked at larger public companies as well.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Everyone thinks video editing is hard and tedious.

When building a new feature Capsule, we simply ask: what would it take to make this simple and fun?

“The advantage is that it understands human narratives”

exit, voice, or loyalty but for whatsapp groups.