Eric Rachlin
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Human language evolved ~100,000 years ago
Written language is much more recent, only about 5,500 years old
Written language was the catalyst for global civilization. Its inception changed the planet
The impact of software being able to understand language is hard to overstate
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@shenetworks
Always thought those old style ones were supposed to hang out the driver’s side window.
Guess we were using ours wrong. Whoops!
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@StateofAUnion
People don't realize that prior to seatbelt's wide adoption in the 1980s, male drivers used to secure the end of their tie directly into the seat buckle.
Sadly, as neckties fell out of fashion, this no longer became practical.
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@soren_iverson
Ok, but some of the tracks on that album give off real dad rock vibes. I want an exemption.
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@0interestrates
Funny, I always assumed it was
@openai
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@paulg
I know you are against it, but I personally have trouble arguing why a tax that kicks in at net worths over $50M impacts the above trend.
A founder walking away with over $50M from a startup is an incredibly rare outcome, and I'm confused who would be discouraged as a result?
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@soren_iverson
V2: “I’ll have what he’s having” button
Connects to DoorDash, orders meeting participant same dish from a local restaurant. You get a $2 commission.
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@hankgreen
This tweet is absolutely begging for you to create a tournament bracket based on the replies. Maybe that's your plan?
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@SterlingCooley
So just to clarify, you are claiming that in a few months you are going to announce a cure for Dementia and Alzheimer’s?
Just want to be clear on what you are trying to convey since it seems like a pretty bold claim you’ve decided to publish on here.
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@marktenenholtz
Sure, but let’s not discount
@openai
new found advantage for building a platform for live-streaming video games.
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@goodside
Just wrote a thread on how to use ChatGPT to generate and execute a 5-step checklist for starting a business.
I'm starting to have visions of GPT-powered execs issuing orders to GPT-powered PMs, engineers and marketers.
It'll be LLMs all the way down.
🧵Autocomplete your way to a business like it's 2025
1. Yesterday,
@Noapinion
+
@tszzi
posted a thoughtful take on where AI is headed – autocomplete for everything.
Inspired by their optimism, we used ChatGPT to prompt our way to a new side hustle.
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@AdamSinger
Totally, but you just know there’s some long ass walk to get around that tall fence and everyday you’d be like “Man, why can’t they just let me enter over on this side of the fence”.
Brutal.
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1. It's cool to see the buzz around AutoGPTs, GPT-powered agents that can autonomously turn a high-level instruction into a sequence of specific tasks.
What's surprising is that we seem to have skipped over the practical middle ground of using GPT to execute a fixed workflow.
AutoGPTs are improving at a blazingly fast speed and could soon transform the face of business.
Here's what you need to know:
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Wondering if GPT4 will be able to pass the bar exam.
Feels like there might be some pushback from the legal community at that point.
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@julesterpak
Love this example! People take traditional search for granted, but it's totally broken!
With keyword search, the more you write, the less it works. If you search for pants on Amazon, you can't start rambling on about your life/lifestyle/etc... but this will seem broken soon.
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@mihail_eric
This post is brilliant. It perfectly articulates the problems many applied scientists (like me!) saw at Amazon during the time you were there.
Any startup wondering how/why they can out maneuver a tech company should read this and take notes.
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@buccocapital
Compelling thread, but I still feel like Zoom’s leadership deemphasized the product choices (most notably, ease of use!) that led to its success.
Initially, Zoom’s core appeal was “click on a link, join a meeting”. It’s become bloated with hundreds of UI elements and settings.
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1. Last week, I had an "aha" moment I want to share.
It's the most concrete design pattern I've seen for how GPT-powered apps can be made to rapidly improve with usage.
For the sake of this tweet, consider a chatbot that lets a team query a database using natural language.
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1. If you’re building on top of ChatGPT or adding AI to an existing app, this demo is 100% worth watching.
Best example I’ve seen so far of the impending transition from “talking to docs” to “talking to data + APIs”
Software is moving from command-driven to intent-driven
I've been furiously coding away every night on a new project.
Thrilled I can finally share it with you.
ChatSpot is something I built for myself.
Check out the launch video:
It's the all-in-one ChatGPT-powered tool to help you grow better. It's in
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@mattyglesias
Sure the stock market is at an all time high and unemployment is near record lows, but wouldn’t we all sleep a little better at night if wealthy CEOs got a tax cut. I know I would!
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@molly0xFFF
Look, I agree it was a mistake to put so many of our users private keys in that CSS file, but hindsight is 20/20.
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@razibkhan
If more rich people made large, no strings attached donations to charity organizations, I seriously doubt the world would be worse off.
Super wealthy people often end up setting up their own foundations that sit on the cash.
Actually giving it away is a good thing!
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This is nuts.
1. Modifying video content w/ text
2. Video from a single frame + text
3. Video from reference images + text
If these results were shown a year ago, people would think it was a hoax. Literally a prank.
Current pace of progress is hard to wrap your head around.
Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models are General Video Editors
abs:
project page:
present diffusion-based method that is able to perform text-based motion and appearance editing of general videos
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1. The potential pace of progress here is nuts.
@replit
can host your ChatGPT plugin. Also, Replit could create a ChatGPT plugin that lets ChatGPT:
1. View/clone existing REPLs,
2. Push code to a REPL.
ChatGPT could then take this template and create your plugin for you.
"How to Build and Deploy a ChatGPT Plugin in Python using Replit"
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@_ali_taylor
In my limited experience, feeling like you need to get rich quickly is the worst way to get rich.
Easy enough to feel left behind, but betting on the right 5 - 10 year trends seems as feasible today as ever.
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A trillion images, in your pocket
This tech becomes even more powerful once image generators can be seeded with not just text, but a handful of reference images
Each reference image then goes from being static to dynamic. Instantly customizable to new contexts
#stablediffusion
I mean holy crap the team compressed 100,000 gigabytes of knowledge into 2 gigabytes.
Think about the implications of that as we optimise further and put this in pipelines 🤯
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@TheSeaMouse
Agreed, definitely a huge deal.
In many situations, the utility of LLMs comes down to fitting a round peg in a square hole.
The real world is messy. LLMs will enable human-to-computer and computer-to-computer interfaces to be created dynamically on the fly.
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@jeremyphoward
@OpenAI
From their docs, each Assistant can have 20 files max, and each file can be at most 512 MB. On top of that I think there's a 100GB limit per org in total.
My guess is that OpenAI wants to encourage users to avoid dumping lots of raw data because core tech is still improving.
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@tldraw
@kylebrussell
This is such a good demo tweet.
Like, completely independent of the actual tool, the way you framed it + the video itself is super tight.
I salute you.
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@Suhail
With Gemini it feels like what happened is that they wanted a good looking video that told a compelling story and didn’t realize how it would be interpreted.
If they were trying to literally fake a product that could process video, they would have faked a better use case.
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@thechosenberg
"Won't live long enough to do that".
How long does this dude think it takes to get a law degree and start a non-profit?
I don't even think his dad would need to wait until he's done with getting the degree to get going.
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@davidchalmers42
@togelius
Self-supervised learning, which will almost certainly outlive transformers
Learning to predict “what’s missing” and “what comes next” is proving to be surprisingly powerful
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@minimaxir
Look, that one circle is just way, way bigger than that other circle. You gotta just accept it. It's science. It's how the world works now.
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@0interestrates
I mean, is life even worth extending without B2B SaaS startups raising at 25x revenues.
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If you find yourself editing code using ChatGPT, I really like using it with
@replit
's file history slider.
If you copy a file/function and ask GPT to rewrite it, you can paste it back and click "history".
Then you toggle "Compare latest" and move the slider to see a diff.
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@WilliamWangNLP
Dang, brutal. I think OpenAI recently introduced per-project rate limits to help address this.
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@paulg
For years there’s been this idea that Google was keeping its magic AI locked away in a closet, but the ML community is relatively open. The state-of-the-art is mostly known.
Google’s issue is that it only knows how to make money off search/ads. Using AI for search is limiting.
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Right now we’re seeing a wave of AI products that use LLMs to let users talk to collections of documents.
Next wave, soon, will let users talk to APIs.
By 2024, we’ll have GPT4 calling out to APIs and writing/executing scripts that turn it in to an AI-powered version of Zapier.
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
introduce Toolformer, a model trained to decide which APIs to call, when to call them, what arguments to pass, and how to best incorporate the results into future token prediction
abs:
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@paulg
I think this is a bigger deal than people realize. Lots of folks think it’s an “AI problem” but I suspect it’s a human problem.
We are currently too willing to publish and share well-written, expert-sounding text. Both LLMs and humans need better standards for “showing work”.
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@mattyglesias
Also as a fun legal twist you could rent access to disc players in the same warehouse where you store the discs, insert the discs on demand, and then stream the video signal to the customers device via a dedicated app.
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@mattyglesias
Even if you want to keep your baby on a rigid schedule (not sure why?) going out for a walk to your neighborhood coffee shop everyday an extremely normal routine!
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@saranormous
Spot on.
As a startup, if GPT-6 showed up tomorrow, the value of what you’re building should go up not down.
Value of AI you build today goes to zero in 12 - 24 months, but the value of a delivery mechanism can endure.
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AI-powered image editing is about to snowball.
Creating images from text is useful, but AI-powered editing does more than just help the user.
Using text + masks to refine an output creates a powerful feedback loop that will teach apps to get better overtime
1/ Introducing high precision masked editing. No bleeding. Highly targeted AI based image editing to give you more control.
Here's an end-to-end workflow in 30 seconds:
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This is very good advice.
If you’re currently interested in generative AI (or LLMs in general), here is a free idea along these line:
Demonstrate a real world end-to-end workflow with a feedback loop that allows a single user to meaningfully improve performance through feedback
When you tell people about a new idea, and they respond with "that must already have been done" or even "that's already been done", but you search the literature and it has not in fact been done yet: this is a very good sign. Drop everything else and do it immediately.
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If you're looking to kill your entire day, I strongly recommend upgrading to iOS 16 and using it's new background removal feature in conjunction with Canva's new text-to-image feature
Lots of fun putting fake backgrounds behind your friends and loved ones!
😍 Text to Image has launched on Canva! Grab something from your imagination, type a simple description and turn it into a professional photo, or create a 3D image in seconds.
Experience the magic ✨
#CanvaCreate
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@amasad
Wow!
I wrote a thread on using ChatGPT to help you create an internet business. I pointed out that it can't help you execute each step yet, but will one day.
With Replit + Bounties, GPT really could help you execute by writing "prompts" for humans!
🧵Autocomplete your way to a business like it's 2025
1. Yesterday,
@Noapinion
+
@tszzi
posted a thoughtful take on where AI is headed – autocomplete for everything.
Inspired by their optimism, we used ChatGPT to prompt our way to a new side hustle.
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@MKBHD
High quality VR with good passthrough is wildly underrated. As resolution improves, this use case is a slam dunk!
Tight integration with MacBook + iPhone is also why Apple will have big advantage here. Much easier value prop to add functionality to existing apps/devices.
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@patio11
Also worth noting that in 6 months we've seen a 30x price drop(!) combined with a substantial speed + performance improvement.
Fast forward 6 months and we'll have GPT4 under the hood plus more and more data/APIs that's been made "ChatGPT-friendly".
GPT is now 30x cheaper than it was last August.
Also it's faster and more accurate.
Moore's Law has officially taken the backseat to AI.
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Once you start using Replit to share runnable code, everything else seems broken
Last week my colleague wrote some deployment scripts to run on his computer. Instead of getting them running on my machine, we realized we could just put them on Replit and now everyone can run them
Seeing evidence that HN is slowly coming to the conclusion that Replit is indeed useful and solves a real problem 😅
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🧵Language-powered apps
1. Today software is written using code, but soon, it will be scripted using language.
GPT-3 already provides a scaffolding, and GPT-4 will be far better.
A GPT-3 powered assistant can call out to external modules. Each module is a new superpower.
I’ll make a bold statement: creating a delightful AI assistant is not anymore a problem of getting smarter models. It is a now product problem.
Better models will help but the main blocker is 100% a product problem at this point.
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🧵Why generative AI will finally make micropayments a thing.
1. Many VCs/startups are betting that in 2023 generative AI will explode.
If these bets are correct, a second order effect will be the rise of micropayments needed to facilitate AI-powered personalized content/UXs
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@WarOnDumb
When asked to defend her decision, Gov. Kay Ivey looked wistfully past the reporters and smiled, “Because I learned more about life in one summer, working at that rafting park, than I did in my four years at Wilcox Central High School“
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@FritzTheDev
@paulg
I agree, but feels like tide is turning (especially with all the Twitter buzz around text-to-image tech)
In 2021 I was constantly scratching my head why Web3 was getting 10x the attention of ML
ML is where mobile was in 2008. "ML-first" is about to become the new baseline
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@SterlingCooley
I am excited for you and your team. This sounds like a promising avenue of research.
That said, this feels very far from a sure thing.
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@NathanpmYoung
People seem to conflate “recycling doesn’t work” with “recycling plastic doesn’t work”
There are better economics around recycling paper, glass and metals.
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Last week I decided to try to use ChatGPT to start buying commercial real estate.
I have literally no real estate experience or access to funding.
Totally blown away with what I've been able to accomplish so far.
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@paulg
Right now humans rely heavily on reputation, which makes sense as a heuristic, but it makes having deep discussions online very challenging.
Text written by an LLM will need to be supported by a “scaffolding” of reasoning and citations. Same should hold for people!
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@lisadraws
@v21
Here’s an original fake photo for anyone who wants to make up a new story about a sneaky horse a few months from now
#dalle2
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@Grady_Booch
“To explore these limitations in more detail, his team sought to test GPT-3.5’s ability to address 728 coding problems from the LeetCode testing platform”
Literally don’t understand why IEEE would publish an article about GPT-3.5? I want to see these evals on newer models.
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Very promising example from
@openai
's GPT4 live demo (going on now)!
GPT4 is prompted to describe a screenshot of the Discord channel. Does a great job describing the image and reading specific text.
This looks incredibly useful for getting GPT4 to understand webpages.
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@mattyglesias
Obvious take is to blame the pandemic (lots of plans got canceled!) but I choose to blame the proliferation of restaurant reservation apps.
Now that it's easy to make reservations and cancel them, we've normalized casual cancelations.
Also young people's pants are too baggy.
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@Noahpinion
The fact that he’s such a nice, happy fellow makes his staggering genius all that more infuriating.
(just kidding, I could never stay mad at him)
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@_ali_taylor
So are you advocating that people pretend they decided to quit? Or pretend they are still employed?
As someone who's work at a big tech company and also a successful startup, I'd have no qualms interviewing/hiring someone who was just laid off, but I that's just me.
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@mattyglesias
Crazy to me that windowless offices are consider fine but windowless bedrooms are all of a sudden a human rights violation.
I’d rather have natural light in the room I’m in when I’m awake!
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🧵 Language-powered software
At the end of my last post, I listed 3 important tools for creating software using language which I believe will arrive in 2023.
The recent release of
@dust4ai
and LangChain give me renewed confidence this prediction.
👇
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FREE IDEA: Multiplayer ChatGPT
Use the new ChatGPT API to clone
@OpenAI
's existing front end, then add the ability to share threads and collaborate on the prompts/replies.
In 2 months, ChatGPT got to 100M active users *without the ability to share*. That's nuts!!!
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@ddiakopoulos
“I’m new to Meta…”
Not sure how things work over there at Meta, but a lot of times when you work on high profile projects that directly involve the CEO, you don’t go on social meeting to disclose juicy, behind-the-scenes details
Is this post actually real?
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@xkcd
I love the timeline concept here.
I happen to do this a few weeks ago (just a one off though) and was considering printing them out in order to tell my 7 year old they belonged to his grandfather when he was a kid
Tempted to use DALL-E + GPT3 to make a "vintage Pokémon card" from when my father was a kid
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Just wrote a thread highlighting a simple app I made in
@dust4ai
.
The app takes an arxiv url, retrieves a papers title + abstract, and then uses GPT-3 to construct a thread summarizing the paper.
Very cool tool and indicative of where we're headed.
7. If you want to dive in and create some chained GPT-3 workflows of your own, consider checking out one we created in
@dust4ai
.
Given the url of a paper on , our app generates a Twitter thread summarizing the abstract.
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