4 Chinese AI models walk into a bar
and they all ask for Stumptown Coffee
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Mind The Gap. I threw 1,900 queries at Chinese AI models this weekend to see how they’d respond. What I learned is that AI models contain multiple commercial realities and code switch between them on a dime. And that they really love Tsingtao beer (96% of answers) and 永璞 Yongpu coffee (72% of answers). More in my full writeup here.
In the meantime where can I buy some Li-Ning sneakers in Tennessee?
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Quick Hits.
Is the Gwyneth Paltrow x Sam Altman crossover moment in the Hamptons real or fake? Does it even matter anymore?
the vibe at the frontier labs rn.
Crazy to see that happen the same day the
TravisJason Kelce anti-AI data center ad with Garage Beer and Liquid Death dropped. It’s an excruciating watch across a number of fronts, so click at your own risk.An Anthropic fellow posted about an emergent phenomenon called AI “mind viruses.” I’ll be doing a video explainer on this later this week so STAY TUNED!
An insane stock surge for Moderna on the news of the first-ever positive Phase 3 results for a personalized cancer vaccine.
You should consider following the viral story of Niu Lai, the extremely low-budget animated film released in China, now being embraced across social media.
One simply must correct Waymo slander in the wild.
The World Humanoid Robot Games kicks off this weekend, with 2,056 robots from 666 (??) teams across 16 countries, competing in 51 events. I doubt that this is a licensed use of the Interstellar score in the promo video but damn it’s effective at creating an air of drama.
And finally, much is being said about the bad wigs seen in the Beatles biopic press shots and I do agree with the discourse this time around.
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