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Here's a video of the Test Track Design Studio experience recreated in Minecraft -- we tried to match the game mechanics as best we could, so if you know how to get a high score in real life you should fare pretty well on here!
🚗Attention on the Sim Track! 🚗
🚘#TestTrack is now open on MCParks 🚘
🖥️Connect at Main.MCParks.us (Java Edition) to design and test your perfect car! 🖥️
It's crazy to me that Sam presents this like it's a big revelation that customers don't want to be charged a surprise amount of money?
"Like AWS," that thing everyone loves the pricing structure of!
Sam Altman says tokens are "fake from of a business from value point of view." Open ai almost stopped charging on tokens.
Sam Altman:
"We almost made what would've been a bad call, to say we're not going to price our next model in tokens at all. You're just going to give it a prompt, and we're going to give you a price back. It's going to be like AWS to you. Just do something and we send you a bill."
"But the customer response on that is so negative. They're like, 'I need to know what I'm paying for somehow."
"I asked a few people, 'Would you rather pay more for the same output, but have it priced in some number of consistent tokens ?' Even if we inflated the tokens, they're like, 'Oh, I'd much rather you inflate the tokens and pay more, because I know there's a real thing there.'
"People don't just want us to give them a price, because they feel like over the long term they're going to get screwed somehow."
"I would rather not make up a fake unit. Tokens are a kind of fake unit. I mean, they're real in some sense, but they're not a good unit." "They're fake from a business value point of view."
Hmmmm maybe we consider how to increase DRAM production rather than imply that it's wrong for people to want to own their inference?
We got where we are with DRAM scarcity because of regulatory capture and cartel behavior. I wouldn't want inference to become the same story.
sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources
“a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment
somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”
Absolutely in love with the "Mo's Diner" activation at #GitHubUniverse -- especially the back-of-house kitchen set!
Time for #GitHubUniverse! What a year it's been since we introduced the CLI last year! Let's celebrate how we're "All Together Now!"
If you're in person: I have a couple talks on the schedule today, come say hi!
I finally got a Litter Robot.
While onboarding it into Home Assistant, I was tickled that the integration wants to import my cat as an entity
It's very silly that this movie exists, but "venmo request Ebenezer Scrooge" is a very funny bit
Ebenezer Scrooge is now on @venmo. Think he’s feeling generous? 💰 Send a request: venmo.com/u/EBENEZERmovie
I started building something like this because I wanted to meet more stray cats in my neighborhood.
I stopped when I realized people might use the info to do harm to them.
Someone made an app that lets you collect real cats like ‘Pokémon GO’
You can snap a pic of any cat you spot, add it to your collection, and even use a map to discover cats people have found around the world
[via/ cat collector.app]
I'm thrilled I got an excuse to work on hybrid local model routing these last few weeks!!!
We have a lot more in the pipeline to help you leverage on-device intelligence to keep as much of your AI local as feasible while seamlessly reaching out to the cloud where needed!
Learn more about how we are bringing local models and sandboxed tools to GitHub Copilot to help you maintain both choice and control over your workflows ⬇️
gh.io/localdevelopment
Not many people know this, but Anthropic actually invented time travel so they could go back in time to the 80's and start training their models by opening threads on theme park BBSes
Horrible news: Chapek self-narrates the audiobook. I don't want to listen to this man speak for 7.5 hours
Exactly one year removed from the Copilot CLI's initial public launch! This was my moonshot pipe-dream when we started hacking a new harness together last summer (before most people were using the word "harness!")
Such an awesome team made this possible. S/O to @patniko leading the evangelism mission across Microsoft, so much more effective than I could have done alone!
Initially Copilot was just a brand that multiple (some may argue too many) adopted in our products. Each implementation was unique and product experiences varied widely. Now, company wide, we are using the same harness, the GitHub Copilot SDK.
This is a monumental achievement for a company the size of Microsoft.
I cannot believe that Disney has not had a CTO until now
(well, actually I CAN believe it given their approach to their tech products, but still incredibly surprising)
NEW: The Walt Disney Company has named Karandeep Anand, most recently CEO of Character.AI, to the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer, effective Oct. 2.
Anand will oversee Disney’s enterprise technology, infrastructure, data and AI platforms, product and engineering.
Don't shame me I just like building factories
“Look at my incredible new factory!”
Yo that’s cool, what do you make?
“It’s highly optimised, fully automated, zero tolerance for defects and with a continuous feedback cycle”
Cool cool, so what do you actually make?
“I can interact with it on my phone, laptop, messenger, completely async, and the shared context means it’s always learning how to get better”
Very impressive, but what do you make?
“Every agent has full context, can spawn other agents, review their work, fix defects, and ship continuously.”
yes yes. WHAT DOES IT MAKE?
“Software.”
Oh nice. What software?
“Well right now we’re mostly using it to improve the factory.”
Improve it to make what?
“Anything!”
Such as?
“…a better factory.”
I'm distraught -- I've been workshopping an Odyssey tweet to the effect of "Remember how easy it was to get a ride to Ithaca? Thank the Phaeacians" for a week and it has just come to my attention that THEY ARE NOT IN THE MOVIE
Christopher Nolan why would you do this to me
Anyone else's Twitter web client randomly deciding to unmute videos by default?
Sometimes, if I mute one or two, future videos spawn in muted, but it isn't consistent!
See, this actually makes sense to me! If we're guarding against late sunrise times, I would expect timezone boundary contours to bend at an angle!
My earth science and geometry are a little too rusty to conjure up WHAT I'd expect the angle to be, but this is directionally right!
