Rodolfo Ocampo
@_RodolfoOcampo
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Researcher and PhD in human-AI interaction @unsw AI Researcher @leonardoai_ ⊂ @canva Ex @google, @csiro, @3Ainstitute
Sydney - CDMX
Joined June 2009
I stumbled upon my new favorite spot in the latent space and I brought you back literally thousands of images. Here are some! My prompt: "flowing rivers in the australian desert the abstract feeling of soft flowing soft colors"
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I worked at Google doing ads. There a lot of incentives to improve ad targeting, but I can assure you it doesn't listen to you. The appearance that is shows you ads based on what you just talked about is a combination of the Baader-Meinhof effect (red car effect) and good
Introducing Gaslight Garage: a box where I put my phones and feed them AI-generated audio nonsense to make them think I want to buy stuff. Practical AI for the people. 👌 I'll report back if my ads change in the next weeks.
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when the novelty wears off, when we aren't so awed by empty technological pageantries, will we be able to look at what we have built and say that we have truly improved the human condition?
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Been saying this for years
Why do we keep dedicating our brightest minds, billions of dollars, and the most powerful GPUs on earth to building yet another app that optimizes for attention decay? I was hopeful when ChatGPT seemed to reclaim time from TikTok and Instagram. It felt useful, even nourishing.
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Alcaraz's rise to this insane level at 22 years old (I'd argue the best level ever seen in tennis) needs to be scientifically studied. It's crazy how a single guy can be so above everyone.
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Perhaps the belief I hold the most strongly.
I used to have bright white overhead lights on until the last moment of the day like some maniac. I've recently discovered you can massively improve your QoL by shifting to very dim, warm lights for the last hour or so before going to bed.
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AI bros can learn the most about what people actually want by listening to people not in AI. Surprisingly, I've found Hollywood people tend to have good takes.
📁 Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.
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Hey listen up, the killer use case of generative ai is not generating more content. It is organising existing content to help us make sense of it.
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in many ways as far as timing is concerned for new breakthrough technology is facebook / meta operating against the zeitgeist? like who is asking to be *more* plugged in? the iphone was born into a pre smartphone vacuum, everyone wanted a single device for music + calls +
as a man who's always wanted to watch tiktoks when i get bored during conversations with people - the meta display glasses are looking very compelling
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If you don't watch tennis yet, it's a great time to start now. We are in the ealry the days of what will be a legendary rivalry, and some of the craziest tennis ever played.
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This is crazy: Over the course of their entire rivalry so far (15 matches), only *six* points separate Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner 🤯 Alcaraz - 1,579 points Sinner - 1,573 points (@_SportsBall_)
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Amusing how 99% of people trying to explain LLMs forget that they don't generate the next token, they generate a probability distribution over the entire vocabulary space that the end application is free to sample from You are very often not presented with the Most Likely Token
Amusing how 99% of people using LLMs forget how these things work: They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training. Under the hood, it’s a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output.
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exploring paths through latent space by interpolating between known embeddings
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The kinda stuff I was programming in 2020: "How to program a beat in Python"
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don’t build slot machines don’t fake humans don’t hide the messy truths don’t create black boxes don’t make people feel stupid don’t extract value or attention don’t optimize for vanity metrics don’t gatekeep knowledge don’t make tools that divide don’t sacrifice agency for
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More simulation proof coming in
Is kayak the only palindrome where the object it describes also looks the same backwards?
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Hoy salí a caminar por la playa y regrese de noche. En mi camino, se cruzaron mas de 10 tortugas saliendo a desovar, para luego regresar a la infinidad del mar.
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