Eugene Chung
@eyc
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Solipsism & the Singularity. @PenroseStudios Troubadour. @WEF YGL. @GreemKim ’s Photographer
EugeneChung.eth
Joined May 2009
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Can confirm
@MarioNawfal
isn’t an AI, but in fact human, with flesh & blood.
Thanks Mario for hosting
@GreemKim
& me in Dubai. Your crew is 🔥
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On
@MarioNawfal
point about how easy it is for
#ChatGPT
to write an article with any bias (left, right, pro-US, pro-Russia, etc), in this case a Pro-Russia article about the Ukraine War — I typed this into Chat-GPT 4, and this was 1st response - what do you think?
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Vision Pro Persona driving Unreal Engine MetaHuman.
Sort of works, would need to tweak a lot. There’s several frames of delay between the two (synched in post here), which wouldn’t make this suitable for live-streaming out of the box.
Interested to experiment further.
Thanks
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Udio is GenAI music. Making waves
Here’s Dune, the Broadway musical
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Live mocap performance w/ an actor rendering in real time
@UnrealEngine
. Fascinating cinematic applications
#GDC16
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Took 1 day for me to generate this
#AI
@taylorswift13
‘Miss Americana’ Music Video (w friends
@takyon236
@ALToloza
)
Themes incl: US geopolitics
@POTUS
@realDonaldTrump
@HillaryClinton
,
@federalreserve
#SVB
,
#UkraineRussia
#XiJingping
#Putin
, racial divide, nuclear conflict &c
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We did it. We created the 1st VR Ordinal inscribed directly into Bitcoin.
This digital artifact, part of
@penrosestudios
award-winning film Allumette, may appear unassuming, but she's a technical marvel. Her existence was realized through cutting-edge advancements, such as
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I’ve learned more from Twitter Spaces over the last few days than I have from traditional media in quite some time. Not many places for direct & swift engagement w/ ppl like
@robertwolf32
(
@UBS
prez in ‘08) as well as diverse voices from around the 🌏. Kudos
@MarioNawfal
for
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The incredible
@RCArmitage
!
A favorite directing moment: his genuine & moving reaction to
@penrosestudios
Arden's Wake in London. Richard’s portrayal of Tide is a true tour de force of VR acting.
Park City après throwback with
@GreemKim
#RichardArmitage
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Made this AI & Unreal MetaHumans short film in a few days.
‘Reflections’ is a short film about a young woman who faces a mirror that reveals more than herself, unveiling some of the underlying inner chaos social media inflicts on us all.
Learned a ton making it.
Who wants a
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@RCArmitage
@PenroseVR
Thank you
@RCArmitage
. A wonderful pleasure working with you, and look forward to your further bold strides in this new art form.
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People predicted that digital disintermediation over last several decades (records / CDs to digital) would create fragmented audiences. The opposite happened, and Power Law prevailed, with a small fraction of the top artists in music & movies capturing the most value.
AI content
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Not your 🔑…
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Historical 1st YC demo day entirely AI-generated by
@lina_colucci
of
@toinfinityai
Bravo on the technical achievements, but lipsync continues to be a tricky problem - Runway & Pika have done incredible work, but are still early and not production-ready for a Hollywood-level
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Thanks to our amazing Spaces audience & speakers, incl
@GaryMarcus
@BrianRoemmele
@ceobillionaire
& other great minds new & familiar.
Also, look who dropped in. Perhaps next time
@lexfridman
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AI animation
“Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation”
Local open source code:
How to at soon.
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A drawing reflecting Walt Disney’s corporate strategy chart from 1957.
What has changed in the intervening decades?
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YouTube and Google DeepMind are reshaping the music industry with Dream Track. This revolutionary AI tool empowers creators to forge unique soundtracks from simple text prompts, featuring a lineup of stars like John Legend. It's a stride into a new realm where AI harmonizes with
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438K unconfirmed transactions in the BTC mempool, higher than at anything seen during 2018 & 2021 bull runs.
Demand for BRC-20 tokens via Ordinals protocol making an impact on BTC transaction fees.
Binance halted BTC withdrawals 2x on Sunday (US time)
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Intriguing AI insights last week from
@adamdangelo
.
10+ yrs ago I was lucky to see him pitch Quora to a roomful of seasoned VCs. Today, he’s on the
@OpenAI
board, innovating at Quora, and as insightful as ever.
Look fwd to what’s next.
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Thanks to the nearly 1M folks who tuned in to our GenAI Music Space today with
@MarioNawfal
@ShaykhSulaiman
.
Deep philosophical implications of AI, humans and creativity.
Some debate, a few answers, lots more questions emerge.
Appreciate insights from experts
@BrianRoemmele
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Our latest GenAI short: AI Grimes “Valhalla Calling” (composed by
@miracleofsound
).
We did this experiment back in December 2023. While it’s not great, we learned a lot.
One of the more difficult parts this time was creating GenAI music with Grimes’s blockchain platform
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A.I. Enters the Ivy League
Students from Harvard’s
@davidjmalan
CS50 intro course (taken by Mark Zuckerberg & Steve Ballmer) will learn with assistance from ChatGPT.
Will this usher in a new era of A.I. education, or should we be concerned about A.I. educating our youth?
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YouTube revolutionizes music creation with GenAI: type a prompt, create a track!
Anonymous GitHub repos hosted tools like these. But DeepMind's AI expertise & YouTube's vast reach make this a wider reality.
Featuring artists like T-Pain, what unique soundtrack will you create?
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OpenAI governance structure.
VCs prefer straightforward cap tables for SV startups. This is not straightforward.
More like a complex Private Equity structure (though those tend to be for tax optimization purposes).
So, it seems Employees & other Investors (presumably Sequoia,
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#Linsanity
movie showing at
#Sundance
with special guest Jeremy Lin. Linspirational.
http://t.co/fX7HlTwo
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TikTok & other Chinese companies are on a $5Bn Nvidia GPU AI buying frenzy, as Biden cracks down on tech investment to China.
China's internet giants are spending billions for Nvidia's A800 chips, vital for training AI models such as LLMs.
This comes as Biden signs an Executive
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📰 Meet Falcon 180B, the latest & largest open-source LLM boasting 180B parameters. It's trained on a whopping 3.5 trillion tokens using the RefinedWeb dataset.
Its capabilities? Setting new benchmarks across natural language tasks, this giant is rivaling top models like
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Great AI Spaces today.
Unconventional insight of the day goes to
@ceobillionaire
when we were discussing whether the $1.3B
@inflectionAI
raise was further signs of an A.I. funding bubble.
@ceobillionaire
(paraphrasing): *in light of the fact that A.I. could ultimately replace
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1st time Freediving in the open ocean & made it 27.8 meters (~91 feet) down on one breath. My instructor tells me this is a great result for a beginner.
In the deep sea I discovered an unparalleled tranquility, evoking a sensation similar to a deeply focused yoga session—yet
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Musk currently most favorable political figure with voters.
Survey run among 2,004 registered voters in May 17-18 2023
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Realtime
#ChatGPT
bot explained AI music disruptions & how blockchain provides solutions (à la
@Grimezsz
proposal on 50/50 smart contract splits). Also composed a sonnet &
@DojaCat
lyrics abt GenAI live. Interview was almost an hour. Will invite
#CallAnnie
back.
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The wall of history, including
@PalmerLuckey
's early duct taped
#Rift
. Great to see the awesome
@oculus
Seoul team
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@tezos
@breitwoman
@CompoundWitness
@tiktokcreators
@claychristensen
@Disney
May the Force be with
@breitwoman
&
@tezos
as they continue to carve a bold path to the future.
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👀
Today
@toinfinityai
made history with the first completely AI-generated YC demo day presentation.
Here's their full demo day video, featuring
@lina_colucci
's AI clone.
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I met
@SaraLisaVogl
through
@wef
AR/VR council. We worked w/
#Metaverse
industry luminaries I'm lucky to still be friends w/ today. What struck me about
@SaraLisaVogl
is she’s first & foremost a practitioner & authentic VR nerd who, like me, geeked out on Oculus DK1 in 2013. 1/
1st ever
#Metaverse
Dance Podcast w/
#VR
artist
@SaraLisaVogl
of
@R00TSCLUB
built w/
@UnityGames
in
@SomniumSpace
- a
#Multichain
#Metaverse
interoperable with $ETH $MATIC $SOL & more. Party w/
@crewmetaverse
&
@OLYsounds
.
Full episode w/
@eyc
here:
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@benz145
Umm.. why would this be fake?
I started the vid by saying I wouldn’t recommend skiing in it. For a host of reasons.
In terms of the headset ‘freezing’, I was skiing today on a pow day Without Vision Pro, and my view quickly fogged up several times where I was unable to ski bc
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After 10+ years lighting up the stage in Mamma Mia!, actress Sara Poyzer gets replaced by AI in a BBC documentary. The move has sparked outrage and interest alike.
As AI steps into the spotlight, should artists fear for their futures?
Are we ready for a world where actors are
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Is AI paving the way for an Orwellian future? Just experienced something mind-boggling: I entered the USA without even needing my passport or any ID. How?
AI facial recognition.
As a long-time Global Entry user, I used to scan my passport and present a paper slip to the CBP
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Where in the A.I. tech stack are there competitive moats?
Today, the infrastructure layer (Cloud Platforms like AWS & GCP as well as Nvidia) are winners.
Who wins the future?
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"In VR, being looked at by a character is VR's version of a closeup" -
@yelenart
quoting
@brillhart
@Festival_Cannes
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How many Caesars have we lost to Fortnite? How many Shakespeares have we lost to Reddit?
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McKinsey’s A.I. report is out. As we navigate the post-pandemic economy, 8.6M occupational shifts have already marked the start of a labor market revolution. AI accelerates automation, with an additional 12M occupational transitions by 2030
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Early developer excitement washing out AI “tourists”
Serious AI builders remain, as measured by AI/ML repository commits
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.
@inflectionAI
raises $1.3B at a $4B valuation from Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt & new investor Nvidia.
CEO
@mustafasuleymn
previously co-founded DeepMind.
The company claims its recently launched Inflection-1 is the “best performing foundation model in its
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@tezos
@breitwoman
@CompoundWitness
@tiktokcreators
@claychristensen
@Disney
What's fun about
@breitwoman
&
@tezos
is the cheeky yet authentic sense of rebellion against the establishment. As an iconoclast, it's bold & refreshing to witness. 4/
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New $1Bn A.I. Unicorn 🦄 KoBold Metals Bags $200M
Bill Gates, a16z and others are backing a Silicon Valley startup, that will in turn seek mining opportunities in Africa. Seems emblematic of the questions now, and to come.
A.I. set to be deflationary, with white collar jobs at
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For curious minds,
#AI
tools used incl:
@StabilityAI
#StableDiffusion
,
@midjourney
5,
@OpenAI
#chatgpt
4,
@D_ID_
@deforum_art
,
@runwayml
#Gen1
,
@KaiberAI
& a few more
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@sphynxbtc
@ceobillionaire
@BT
@MarioNawfal
@ShaykhSulaiman
@BrianRoemmele
@Scobleizer
@MetaPrime001
@far__el
@Deepneuron
@neuro_tarun
@XaevrM
@KareemFarid
Breaking:
@Scobleizer
confirmed live on Spaces he won’t be putting his Apple Vision Pro in the shower
Credit to
@neuro_tarun
for asking the Q
(I still give it 50/50) 🦄
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GPU rankings for deep learning.
Nvidia H100 SXM (80 GB) at top.
Consumer-oriented 4090 up in the ranks also.
@Tim_Dettmers
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Twitter Spaces chance encounters: Invested in
@TO
a decade ago, now spontaneously chatting Bitcoin Ordinals with his stellar crew.
Practical tips, BTC L-1 future vision
@TheOrdinalShow
.
Great connecting
@LeonidasNFT
@nonfungible_jan
@coinyeezy
@nondualrandy
@mrJackLevin
We're live!
Join us as we discuss:
◉ BRC-20 w/
@jasonklau
CIO at
@okx
◉ Ordinals under attack w/
@super_testnet
◉ Fees hit 500+ sats/vB w/ miners
@hash_bender
@cbspears
◉ Maxis vs Ordinals w/
@udiWertheimer
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Walt Disney has formed a task force to explore artificial intelligence (AI) applications, impacting all areas from studios to theme parks. Launched earlier this year, this group aims to develop in-house AI and collaborate with startups, with 11 job openings highlighting Disney's
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For years,
@TimSweeneyEpic
has been touting Fortnite as the best version of the Metaverse we have today. Roblox has been saying similar things.
Longtime XR veterans have riposted that the lack of AR / VR in Fortnite render the game lacking in that regard.
Today’s Fortnite
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Details continue to come to light, but increasingly seems to fit the pattern of a classic palace coup
More on
@OpenAI
: Several sources told me Board told Sam Altman 30 mins in advance, Greg Brockman 5 mins in advance about the move. Brockman is chair of the board, so not sure how that worked. Microsoft also was told just before, and employees not told in advance. 🤡 🚗
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AI short film made with AI + Unreal MetaHumans
Submitted to
@runwayml
AI film fest. Director deep dive incoming
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Co-hosted 2nd
#AITownHall
with
@MarioNawfal
,
@alex_valaitis
,
@ShaykhSulaiman
, and an expert panel.
EU AI regulations vs Mistral's €105M fundraise
Legal & Moral aspects of self-driving cars
Touched AI + Religion.
Kudos 🔥 speakers:
@BrianRoemmele
@ceobillionaire
AI hits new frontiers as ChatGPT leads a church service to hundreds & EU lawmakers race to tame its growing influence.
From Parliament to priest's pulpit, join the debate at our
#AITownHall
with
@MarioNawfal
,
@ShaykhSulaiman
,
@alex_valaitis
& AI experts
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🎮 Can Generative AI Transform the Gaming Industry?
Game development giants
@unity3d
and NetEase are putting generative AI to the test in a BIG way. They believe this technology can make games more realistic and cheaper to make. But how?
Unity Software launched AI tech that
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Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for LLMs
An innovative method that harnesses offline datasets to efficiently refine language models. Its standout application? Significantly boosting machine translation quality using less compute and samples.
Do we risk losing the nuances of
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Twitter Spaces Tuesday: we'll be dissecting the ongoing tug-of-war between open source proponents like HuggingFace and Stability AI vs closed players such as OpenAI, Google and others.
We'll unpack:
1️⃣ DeepMind CEO counters the infamous "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does
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MosaicML: $1.3B acquisition for 62 employees, $21M per employee.
2 year old SF company.
That inside voice Entrepreneur Spirit Animal asking us: ‘what have you done in the last 2 yrs — learned to bake a quiche?’
Not a drill indeed.
A 60 person AI startup founded 2 years ago was just acquired for $1.3 billion. This is not a drill.
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@tezos
@breitwoman
@CompoundWitness
One of my fav insights from
@breitwoman
was abt how the ultimate
#web3
winners need to embrace absuridity (à la
@tiktokcreators
etc) bc the internet is a social phenomenon. 1/
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A.I. Startups by Country
Since 2013, US has 1.9x more investment in AI companies than China + EU combined
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It was amazing to
#FBT
VR dance in
@R00TSCLUB
in
@SomniumSpace
w/ my custom cat Avatar. Look forward to the next
#Caturday
Party w/
@SaraLisaVogl
@CrewMetaverse
@OLYsounds
in VR.
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Reserve currencies & housing prices over centuries: Prior reserve currency was $GBP (before $USD). If 1850-1900 (Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee) was height of British Empire, subsequent loss of reserve currency coincided with decades of pain for UK homeowners
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@ceobillionaire
@BT
Great chat
@MarioNawfal
@ShaykhSulaiman
@BrianRoemmele
@Scobleizer
@MetaPrime001
@far__el
@sphynxbtc
@Deepneuron
@neuro_tarun
@XaevrM
@KareemFarid
@far__el
@MetaPrime001
@ceobillionaire
& our engaged audience
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.
@FirstRepublic
fails and is acquired by
@jpmorgan
.
Depositors protected, shareholders wiped out. JPM not assuming $FRC corporate debt.
$JPM one-time gain $2.6Bn post-closing. First Republic branches to re-open as normal.
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AppleGPT (aka Ajax) in development for “some time”
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Groundbreaking event reminiscent of the 'Deep Blue' era: drone racing just experienced its own seismic technological shift. 🚁🏁
Developed by the University of Zurich, an autonomous AI system named Swift, armed with single-camera vision and onboard inertial measurement data, has
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Rockefeller was 24 when he started what would become Standard Oil (1863)
Octavian was a teenager when he led armies & eventually became Emperor Augustus
The avg age of founders winning TechCrunch awards is 31
But… the avg age of founders of highest growth startups is 45
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Probably not the decentralized future we were once promised, but perhaps the one we deserve.
BRC-20, Ordinals,
@pepecoineth
, $pepe
Made with
@midjourney
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ELI5:
@RonDeSantis
Twitter Spaces crashes at around half a million concurrent users (CCUs), but Fortnite has been hosting concerts in-game with millions of CCUs for years now, such as during the Nov 2020 Galactus Event with 15.3 million users, all at the same time.
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Recipe: Invite over 60 YGLs worldwide to
@Harvard
, instill the spirit of open collaboration from Davos, instigate Socratic method discussions with inspiring professors. Remove sleep. Sprinkle in some music & dance. Mix. Gestate for 9 days.
Result? Life lessons and friendships
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