John Borthwick
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Didnt appreciate that the Syrian civil war was triggered by climate change
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Excited to announce Betaworks Studios: a place for builders
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We posted a deepfake article this week at betaworks as an experiment. A post written using a generative text algo that matches an input in both subject and tone
Interesting that no one flagged it as rubbish🚮
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Announcing AI Camp: Augment:
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Good turn out at betaworks Studios for the evening. Some new faces here -- awesome talk
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Acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor this week affirmed our conviction around voice and podcasting - they also validated our strategy of doing small batch accelerator camps focused on new interfaces / emerging areas of frontier tech ✨
Next up is Synthetic camp ... Details 👇
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Excited to open Upstairs at betaworks next week.
Someone showed up to help kick off the NFT / NYC events we have going on. Thanks to the awesome
@GMI_Studio
/ HT
@CozomoMedici
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New areas of technology we are thinking about at betaworks
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Good thread. We have to start building tech for the future we want. Tech is no longer just the shiny new toy cc
@tristanharris
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“It is simpler than Facebook, more fun that Twitter, and more useful than Foursquare" Ditto goes live, exciting.
http://tcrn.ch/hY7Jjk
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Good interview with Snap CEO
@evanspiegel
+
@karaswisher
- unusual do hear tech exec talk substantively about values in a product.
Why I’m long on SNAP - product, design and data minimization as he calls it
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Introducing Betalab, lets fix things …
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Tools for thinking? Fifty years since the first personal computer, thirty since the birth of network computing and we still dont have great tools for thinking
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Congrats
@ClementDelangue
,
@julien_c
@Thom_Wolf
and 🤗team!!! and
@Benioff
&
@salesforce
, a great investment.
I remember when Hugging Face started in botcamp (pic from day2
@betaworks
!!). Amazing to see 🤗 grow into one of the most important companies in open source AI 🤯🤗
Hugging Face, a startup that makes AI software and hosts it for other companies, said it has been valued at $4.5 billion after raising $235 million in funding
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"Agency is in the feedback loop" ..thinking about feedback loops, and systems since
@gordonbrander
talk at agent dinner last week at betaworks..
If you are thinking about Agents and building, think about applying to Agent Camp, details 👇
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Funny thing happened today.
Founders of Anchor,
@mignano
,
@NirZicherman
showed up
@betaworks
- they decided the place to take the phone call to close the sale was where it all started💥⚓️
Love what I do .. get to work with people like this.
@MattHartman
@peterrojas
missed you
Back to where it all began, at Betaworks.
Congrats to
@mignano
,
@nirzicherman
& the entire
@anchor
team on closing your deal with
@spotify
. We couldn’t be more proud of what you’ve built.
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Clip from last night's discussion Upstairs:
@tylerxhobbs
,
@punk6529
,
@iamDCinvestor
and
@bonafidehan
on CC0, power, participation, Walmart and the Decaverse
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Unforeseen effects+new markets in
@stevenbjohnson
analysis of creatives transition to digital
http://t.co/xixL3Rdu4e
http://t.co/hcpKjwZ7kf
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betaworks Studios launching a mentorship program for founders to deal with Covid related realities — peer to peer support for people who are 🤯 — no cost, want to help.
Details & application 👇
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Boom. Thank you
@GIPHY
handwashing sticker out this morning. 💪 (in imessage Giphy sticker pack)
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AI Agent Camp starts in Feb -- I went through 80+ applications yesterday, some really strong one's.
Reading hundreds of applications you can see how people are seeing agents as an opportunity to re-think software. I believe "agents" might well end up as the catch-all term for…
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The first human scale multi-player Dots game. Thank you
@patrickmoberg
and team for sending these huge Dots downstairs
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.
@dots
composers, Ross and Cody, demo the new wall sized game at
@betaworkstudios
The game is great and the sound is lovely -- its dimensional, designed for multiple players. And the sounds aren't sampled, all generative.
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War in the Western Hemisphere comes to an end. Portraits of a world at war aren't factual
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Where
@giphy
@Bitly
@Chartbeat
@playdots
@SocialFlow
@betaworks
@LererHippeau
all started. Becoming Dots HQ
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Couldn’t believe my Newton just booted right up. How much tech just works after 25 yrs in a drawer.
.
@Borthwick
just put batteries in his old Mac newton and it fired right up. We’ll put it out at
@betaworkstudios
if you want to try it out
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Congratulations to Alex and the
@GIPHY
team !!!!
We’re so excited to share some news – GIPHY has been acquired by
@Facebook
and is joining the
@Instagram
team! 🎉
Read more here:
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Why people, and companies die and cities dont. Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities
http://t.co/gYQzuwrb
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Worth listening to last two minutes of this interview w/
@elonmusk
“at any point Microsoft could cut off OpenAI”
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Memo to sentient beings from
@gordonbrander
:
The internet is a tool for thought
and might as well get good at it.
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Mark Zuckerberg is doing a series of interviews re: tech & society. Facebook's reach (2.4bn active users) & Zuck's singlehanded control of the company makes him one of the most powerful individuals in the world.
For that reason alone it's worth listening
My notes👇 (1/9)
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Applications for next
@betaworks
Camp are open now - we’re seeing great candidates rolling in 👉
The theme is
#agents
. Attributes we want Camp companies to have a unique POV on:
Autonomous: an agent must be able to perceive and synthesize data and…
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A Brexit conspiracy theory nails the no-win situation Boris Johnson now finds himself in
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petition seeking Trump tax returns flies past 100,000 signature goal
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Applications open for AI Camp: Agents !!!
We're looking for the brightest, most insightful founders building in the a̘̫͈̭͌͛͌̇̇̍g͎͚̥͎͔͕ͥ̿e̮̟͈̣̖̰̩̹͈̾ͨ̑͑n͉̠̙͉̗̺̋̋̔ͧ̊t̘̟̼̉̈́͐͋͌̊i̞̟̫̺ͭ̒ͭͣc͔ͣͦ́́͂ͅ AI space -- investing $500k into each. 🚨
Apply:
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Excited to bring a few new investors into betaworks. Approx. 20m total capital. The first time in 3 yrs+ that we have have done a raise
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Marketing vs product culture. What killed MSFT, IBM, cable companies and media companies + many internet pioneers - yahoo, aol, ebay etc.
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GM. AI. Sunny morning here in NY
@wolfejosh
beta testing an agentic shift' at Lux Ai conference
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Etsy’s IPO is a Milestone for New York’s Startup Scene. Congrats to
@chaddickerson
@Stinchcomb
and the team
http://t.co/q47yeLAIB2
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betaworks Studios turns one! builders to founders over 12,000 people have joined us here.
Including AMAs with best of NY tech, A President, two candidates. Authors, Creators more builders. Membership is jammed - tis buzzing each day.
Our tribe has a place. Thank you.! 🧁
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I'm an immigrant, w/ family who are political refugees. Lost family in the camps. Became a citizen after 911. Travel ban is v. wrong (1/3)
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Reviewing applications for
@betaworks
AI Camp: Augment. Ton of really strong candidate's .. 3x what I expected!!!!
I am particularly interested in applications that explore native AI workflows alongside augmentation
HT:
@jordanrcrook
@nbaronia1
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Where VCs are looking for voice startup investments ~ my partner
@MattHartman
discusses the three new areas of voice we are focused on at betaworks.
++ a string of other smart investors share interests in emerging voice interfaces👇🤔💯
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Very excited for Julien, Clem and the 🤗 crew.
From early days at betaworks -- i recall that crazy recursive loop hack!@$@ -- It was clear that they had the ambition to shape the future of AI - they are now doing just that via FOSS. Congrats on raise 🤗💥👌
🔥🔥 Series A!! 🔥🔥
Solving Natural language is going to be the biggest achievement of our lifetime, and is the best proxy for Artificial intelligence.
Not one company, even the Tech Titans, will be able to do it by itself – the only way we'll achieve this is working together
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Announcing AI Camp: Agents!
Tis seven years since botCamp, which included Hugging Face among its brilliant cohort ... now we are turning our focus to Agents.
Why, what and details ...
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Will do all we can
@betaworks
to support the ACLU + org's that Resist. Most of our team + companies we back are immigrant led & built (2/3)
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There are moments in life when everything stops. An accident, you get sick or someone you love dies. Moments when reality is pierced and you realize how much of it is constructed
One of the things that is remarkable about now - is this happening for all of us at the same time🚫
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Whaat!? this. Melania Trump speechwriter Meredith McIver probably isn’t a real person via
@howardlindzon
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Interesting — tech has taken over media distribution - now buying legacy, trophy brands.
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Announcement of great set of fellows for betaworks fund. Excited to be building this w/
@MattHartman
&
@peterrojas
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We are hosting a conference and then accelerator around all of this. If you are interested, join us:
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.
@ev
live at Studios tonight. Awesome to welcome Ev to betaworks. I was fortunate to meet Ev back in Pyra days (HT
@jerrymichalski
). Tonight’s it’s a live AMA --questions about creation, media, free to paid, and optimization vs creation...
Will share some 🎬 's
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Nice run this morning. Love NYC when it snows, the sound of hush. AVP video — little island reminds me of the game Myst
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Betaworks’ Voicecamp -- building on botcamp -- is looking to invest in verbal computing startups
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What if we go the business model of the web wrong?
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Interested in the UI for AI, join us and
@hmason
now -- will also discuss AI-Augment Camp we just announced
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Gosh - it’s great to have IRL events back at Studios.
On now
@simondlr
&
@jarroddicker
on storytelling and NFT'S - ht
@andrewxhill
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"This is Giphy. You're welcome"
(tag line on first
@Giphy
website)
Wow. Facebook just bought Giphy for $400M. This is the first time something has felt remotely “normal” in the past 2 months. Thank you Facebook for bringing back that feeling.
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Thank you for hosting
@nihalmehta
.
Good conversation, with a nice ENIAC backdrop
Amazing to co-host a conversation with
@RepRoKhanna
with
@TechNYC
at
@EniacVC
.
So important that we have leaders in DC who understand our industry. We chatted about why he's in politics, the banking crisis, AI and regulation and... the
@nyknicks
=)
Thanks for your time Ro! 🇺🇸
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Yep, excited to see what
@stevenbjohnson
and the Google team release, this has been brewing for a while ...
Today the tool I use today is the GhostReader inside of the Readwise / Reader app
This actually looks a lot like what we hoped early versions of Findings would be, right
@borthwick
?
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Conference next week at
@betaworkstudios
on Humanization of Tech. Ways to make tech less extractive, more human + intentional.
Join us &
@rushkoff
@tristanharris
@elipariser
and others. Free for Studios members, if not ticketed .. building🚲for the🧠
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Responses to this tweet illustrate lack of trust in media. Tickets sold is a fact - not a point of view
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Starting now 👇
The
@betaworks
crew is excited to chat all things AI with
@greycroftvc
’s
@markterbeek
later today. Don’t miss it!
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Getting ready for our first conference at betaworks in a while... a throwback to early betadays.
Starting tomorrow we are running mini conferences at Studios about frontier tech. Synthetic media is first up. Excited along with 200 RSVPs 👌
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Great discussion w/
@kofinas
-- enjoy !!👇👂
I'm joined in this
@HiddenForcesPod
by
@Borthwick
.
John and I discuss the risks and opportunities in A.I., the response by industry stakeholders & the public, and how to progress technologically without losing touch with our humanity.
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Good discussion re software + intentions - tons of good morsels in here.
@SamHarrisOrg
w/
@tristanharris
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Waiting for someone about to join the conversation tonight at Studios...
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Technology has a hole in it, I can feel it. And there is something missing from the way many people are talking about the future: 💧..💧..💧.💧💧💧..💦 ..🌊
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Ian Hogarth aka
@soundboy
on how the obsession with g_d like AGI is extreme hubris and a distraction while “ decisions potentially affecting every life on Earth could be made by a small group of private companies without democratic oversight”👇
I wrote an essay for the FT - We must slow down the race to God-like AI:
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1/ We need better tools for thinking ... most of the tools we have were designed last century, for file systems. They barely work as note taking app's let alone tools for actually thinking.
Much of the time ✏️ and 🧻 works better ...
#TfT
🤔
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Something I would recommend is setting up a hyper local chat group. I have one with ~100 sort of neighbors. It’s super useful for local news - re food supplies, help needed etc. or just ✋
I did it on Telegram, group functionality is good. Allows for larger groups...
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The week just got interesting. Richard Prince Just Showed How Art Fights Trump
#SheNowOwnsAFake
Not a prank. It was sold to IvankaTrump & I was paid 36k on 11/14/2014. The money has been returned. SheNowOwnsAfake.
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"Alexa, Please Send This To My Screen” … Thoughts on designing continuous computing experiences
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Super day. AI, Augment demo day — 12 amazing newco’s building on the edge of ai, apps’s middle ware & tools.
@jordanrcrook
and
@nbaronia1
kicked us off
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Join me for a discussion about Taking Smart Notes, and how it can change how you think 🤔
Came across
@soenke_ahrens
book last year and have been using the system religiously since.
Conversation w/ Sönke on tuesday:
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.
@eldsjal
on why Anchor and Gimlet were acquired. The next wave of voice interfaces + podcasting has begun, started with Pocketcast now its tipped. Could not be more excited for
@alexblumberg
@mlieber
@mignano
@NirZicherman
and teams 👂💥
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Self-Driving Trucks. Hard to watch a driver step away from the wheel of an 18 wheeler & go read a book
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Took a mental detour last month ... spent time immersed in WW1, reading and listening to podcasts. Some of what I learnt about people, technology and politics👇
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Proud to host
#MarchForOurLives
last night at betaworks Studios with
@chrisfralic
,
@KenLerer
,
@erichippeau
,
@RonConway
,
@KLemkau
,
@tim_armstrong
— these youths are inspiration. This is how Change happens & looks.
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Old tech for new tech. A phone box, literally, at a small resturant in Italy: “Per La Tranquillta di Tutti”
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