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Rami's Readings #14

GenAI, BloombergGPT, Vicuna, Art Investments, Twitter, World Happiness Report, and more.

Rami Sayar
Apr 2, 2023
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Welcome to Rami’s Readings #14 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, videos, Twitter threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering technology, business, culture, fashion, travel and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.


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🤖 AI Reads

Lots of news this week in AI land including an open letter that took the internet by storm. I will refrain from my offering my opinions on it for reasons. This week’s other AI news:

$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market

Notes: Reminds of the crypto-developer salary craze a few years ago. This will tail off quickly in my opinion.

BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance

Notes: The data size used to train this model is impressive, but the output is not much more impressive than those of ChatGPT and GPT-4. But I guess there must be value when machines can finally explain Credit Default Swaps reliably 😂.

Vicuna: An Open-Source Chatbot Impressing GPT-4 with 90%* ChatGPT Quality

Notes: This is impressive given the size and training cost! We’re already seeing exponential cost reduction for training LLMs.

Cost of training Vicuna-13B is around $300.

The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth (Briggs/Kodnani)

Notes: A report on Generative AI from Goldman Sachs.

AI Will Not Replace You, But a Human Using AI Might

Notes: Nathan, my colleague, has been actively involved in Midjourney and Generative AI art since day one.

Generative AI-assisted knolling (#5) brings me tears of joy. 😂

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Kris Kashtanova @icreatelife
PROMPT CHALLENGE #6: KNOLLING 1. I’d like to see how you interpret the phrase to come up with whatever you imagine. Please be creative! You can use any A.I. platform to create with, whether it is MidJourney, StableDiffusion, DALL-E, or others. 2. You can share several images.… https://t.co/uRLMAhTfmC
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1:40 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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💼 Business Reads

Art tops 2022 luxury investment index

Notes: Not surprising but important to know the trends continue.

Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm Open Sourced

Notes: Going through the code is the equivalent of a speed run for how to quickly increase your Twitter reach and engagement. No guarantees the weights will remain the same. Twitter really is an eternal game.

Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake

Notes: This trend is extremely frustrating for job seekers. Reminder; avoid putting sensitive information in your resume because job listings are also a new vector for cybersecurity attacks and identity theft.

Global Layoffs Extend Far Beyond Big Tech

Notes: Fantastic data visualizations in this article.

🎨 Culture Reads

UN released World Happiness Report

Notes: Taiwan is the happiest country in East Asia.

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George Mack @george__mack
What is ignored by the media -- but will be studied by historians? Here's 7 more examples:
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5:47 PM ∙ Mar 29, 2023
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That is all for this week. Hope you enjoyed the newsletter!


I wrote a disclosure for this newsletter in #7. Please consider reading it.


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