Monthly Archives: September 2023

AI #31: It Can Do What Now?

It slices. It dices. Or, at least, it sees, hears, talks, creates stunningly good images and browses the web. Welcome to the newly updated GPT-4. That’s all in two weeks. Throw in Microsoft 365 Copilot finally coming online soon. Are … Continue reading

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AI #30: Dalle-3 and GPT-3.5-Instruct-Turbo

We are about to see what looks like a substantial leap in image models. OpenAI will be integrating Dalle-3 into ChatGPT, the pictures we’ve seen look gorgeous and richly detailed, with the ability to generate pictures to much more complex … Continue reading

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Housing Roundup #6

The listings will continue until people can afford houses in places they want to live.

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AI #29: Take a Deep Breath

It works for the AI. Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step was the strongest AI-generated custom instruction. You, a human, even have lungs and the ability to take an actual deep breath. You can also think … Continue reading

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Startup Roundup #1: Happy Demo Day

There were a bunch of discussions recently related to issues surrounding Y-Combinator, related as usual to their annual demo day. It seemed worth splitting them off into a post.

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AI#28: Watching and Waiting

We are, as Tyler Cowen has noted, in a bit of a lull. Those of us ahead of the curve have gotten used to GPT-4 and Claude-2 and MidJourney. Functionality and integration are expanding, but on a relatively slow pace. … Continue reading

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Monthly Roundup #10: September 2023

It’s that time again. Here’s all the news and items of interest that isn’t something else. Things that didn’t make it in to try and stand them on their own include whether America or France has better food and various … Continue reading

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Who Has the Best Food?

It is a fun question going around the internet this past week, so here we go. In particular, people focused on the question of France vs. America. As one would expect, those on the French side think those on the … Continue reading

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