Masters of the universe, first impressions video

 Ive also seen it.  It went a bit hard on the comedy side.   But overall it was an excellent movie that should have done better in theaters.  I'm glad that at least it did well on streaming.  Very good portrayal of the characters, including He-man and villain Skeletor.

Doom debates with coiner of agi term Ben Goertzel

Ben Goertzel is a mathematician who is ai researcher and an optimist. In this episode of doom debates, he gives his opinions and arguments regards ai, agi and doom.
 

Cool lyrics music video.

A very excellent music video that evokes emotions.  The lyrics are included to make the words clearer to understand.   Some amazing music with good lyrics.
 

Encyclopedic parrots...

 

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The first llms were called stochastic parrots, but eventually they did prove to have some degree of intelligence, disproving the label.

But that said, I think a better label is encyclopedic parrot, even to this day the latest llms, still make mistakes when asked obvious questions that are outside their training data.  But they can make very intelligent responses within and around the training data.  So I think encyclopedic parrot might be a better label for them.

They have intelligence, but not agi yet, just proto agi.

potential new apple devices this summer

4 new apple devices including new versions of imac and mac mini.  Apple always delivering constant upgrades with excellent value and features.  The leaks mention some of the potential product details of these upcoming products.

 

interesting youtube short.

Evangeline comments on the tragic loss of jobs that may be due to ai developments.   Disney might be using automation to replace workers particularly artists.
 

Comparison between open source very large recent LLM model and open source small scale LLM model

A 1 trillion parameter recent model is compared against another recent 27 Billion parameter model.  The small model managed to remain competitive according to the tests.

 

mac neo rumor apple rumors

 Rumors of mac neo, a potential 299 dollar mini computer with access to the apple ecosystem.  A 299 mac woud sell like hotcakes.  But the likely 8GB of ram will likely be obsolete out of the box in my opinion.  Hopefully it can come out with 16GB.