Crazy recent weeks in generative AI:
Midjourney v4 is also released. Check out the progress (details, reflections, etc.) here.
But I think the ultimate release was the new text model for GPT-3 (text-davinci-003). A remarkable example:
A researcher has trained another GPT-3 model with his childhood journals and started to chat to herself when she was a child:
Getting out of AI, I found this method of lumber production that the Japanese are using for the past 700 years which saves trees.
In the past weeks I’ve been reading more about the negative effects of copying others. This one was interesting about superstitious learning if you’re interested. Uniqueness is scary, it seems lonely, but it prevents superstitious learning.
Flat start-ups are not that great (Link)
This is a 200-kilogram preserved blue whale heart.
The tempting L'Ami Pierre: A French cafe and restaurant whose baguettes are supposed to be the best baguettes in New York! Besides the cafe, I thought maybe France is the best country in the world. Their political stance, their freedom, clean energy, and their protests. Saw a similar tweet from Noah Smith
I was looking for novels about Los Angeles, and I’ve found that this is one of the bests
In 1971 two researchers started to work on animal acoustics and especially in wales. Years later, in 2019, Sara Niksic (Inner Child), a biologist and musician from Croatia, starts another research and uses the whale voices to publish an independent album in the electronic genre along with other artists. Earlier this year she, released the second album in the series.
I kept this for the last: Metallica is releasing a new album.
They announced it on their website and released a demo two days ago
Their last album in 2021 was fifty-three covers from the songs of the black album. They release the new album, called “72 seasons,“ on April 14th 2023. The endless efforts of a band of metal geniuses.
I was wondering if you could share your recommended books on this blog.