The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.
Four hundred thousand kids dead in less than a year. But hey, the Trump administration saved less than half a percent of its budget. Oh! And did we mention, DOGE was shut down already because it cost taxpayers more than it saved? Talk about fraud and waste…
Incredible animated student short film from France. Produced in a stunning knitted stop-motion animation style to create some beautiful visuals. And if you stick around for the whole thing, it gets pretty deep.
LeCun thinks we need completely different approaches, including what he calls “world models,” before we can talk seriously about AGI. His timeline? At least a decade, probably much longer.
I’m obviously no expert, but I’ve been saying this for years. LLM’s are not a path to AGI or any sort of intelligence. They are fancy algorithms with random outputs. They don’t think or understand—they ingest and compute.
New newsletter that I’m excited for from Manu kicking off in the new year.
Coca-Cola is back with another series of AI-generated ads to herald the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.
What an expensive and ugly ad. People keep saying “ThIs iS ThE WoRsT AI WiLl EvEr bE,” and sure, but also, it’s absolutely terrible and pointless. Why would you ever want to take the time to make something this bad and put your name on it???
Didn’t catch this yesterday, but what a great three song set from White with Eminem joining for the second, rapping ‘Till I Collapse over Hello Operator.
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