Russ Fee
@russfee
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I make things on the internet. I mostly tweet about AI.
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Joined March 2009
I’ve often felt: People lose jobs to robots —> people begin to attack all robots they see —> we build robots that can defend themselves … is a pretty reasonable path to Terminator 2.
I’ve been saying it for years: the “AI Doomers” could eventually pose a serious threat, even resorting to terror attacks. Now, unhinged activists from the “Stop AI” group have threatened @OpenAI, forcing a temporary lockdown of its San Francisco office.
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The wise dummy is easily my favourite type of person. Bobrovsky 2.0 right here.
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So many campgrounds could benefit from this. Assuming they have satellite imagery of their sites (not all do; some are heavily tree’d), they could create a far better experience for their users than what they tend to offer.
Nano Banana Pro is a really good cartographer. Used it to turn low res satellite imagery into a detailed hand drawn map and vector HD map. Pretty wild how well it segments everything and even recovers paths/roads hidden under tree cover. Looks way more detailed than the
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This is a remarkable leap forward in image gen. Starting to see why Google entered this week with such confident energy. Everything they've brought to the table demands attention in an already very distracting space.
Nano banana Pro: “i need a flowchart for how to toast bread, make it as wacky and over the top and complicated as possible.“ Not absolutely perfect, but I can’t believe how much there is a coherent through-line, how clear the text is, and also parts of it are actually funny?
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my theory on bryan johnson is that while he's spending millions trying to live forever, his most effective 'longevity hack' is having a mission he wakes up excited about.
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I cannot believe in 2025 we're already seeing these types of things (especially the laundry bot). Getting them into unfamiliar environments and having them do anything useful was not something I expected to see for a while longer.
Our model can now learn from its own experience with RL! Our new π*0.6 model can more than double throughput over a base model trained without RL, and can perform real-world tasks: making espresso drinks, folding diverse laundry, and assembling boxes. More in the thread below.
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One of my favourite things about it is you can find a particular problem, go online to see how others have solved it with AI, and there’s nothing. The future is wide open, and that’s weird.
Among many weird things about AI is that the people who are experts at making AI are not the experts at using AI. They built a general purpose machine whose capabilities for any particular task are largely unknown. Lots of value in figuring this out in your field before others.
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Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live
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To build on this, the difference is so noticeable that I never use anything less unless asking stuff that’s basic and I’m too lazy to google. Yes, every question takes 10x time to answer, but you make it back in time not spent correcting errors.
From seeing how a lot of people use ChatGPT, 95% of all practical problems folks encounter can be solved by turning on Extended Thinking.
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Alright what the hell is going on. The last 4 times I’ve seen somebody use the phrase “they said the quiet part out loud,” they’ve used it incorrectly. I don’t even think we can blame it on bots because AI understands what it means. Is this the new “I could care less”?
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There is now a direct path to creating a pretty bad version of JARVIS voiced by Michael Caine and that’s pretty awesome.
Michael Caine has signed a deal with AI company ElevenLabs to make a clone of his voice. The company will have the voice available on a marketplace where users can request access to the voice to create content.
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Two things can be true. If you're not amazed by AI, you don't really understand it. If you're not afraid of AI, you don't really understand it.
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Tons of interesting replies to this post about autistic people and AI usage.
Every autistic person I know loves AI. Many of them use LLMs more than anyone else I've seen - and find it incredibly useful in their personal and professional lives. I think it's weird we don't talk about this more.
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I’m unsure what’s more annoying: Gen Z being credited with discovering meditation or millennials calling it weird.
🚨 GEN Z IS PUTTING THEMSELVES IN “TIMEOUT” - AND CALLING IT HEALING No phone. No TV. No music. No food. Just silence. They’re calling it “raw dogging boredom.” 15 minutes of sitting completely still with zero distractions. Some say it’s weird. Others say it’s genius. Is this
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I remember telling my mother, "Man, music was so much better in the 80's." My mom LAUGHED at me and said, "Josh, you only like the music that SURVIVED the 80's." NGL that stuck with me.
I really am tired of "new thing bad, old thing Good" when it comes to any sort of media analysis. There was dogshit back then too, you just intentionally forget it.
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The problem with the phrase: my brain is not just an incredibly complicated statistical-inference/pattern-matching machine, is that's precisely what an incredibly complicated statistical-inference/pattern-matching machine would say.
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And this doesn't even consider what happens to the labour market once the knowledge workers get canned. What do we think they're all going to retrain as? What the robots don't get at right away, the market might.
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"... skilled labor is going to become the most valued position in the entire market" *rubbing temples* Which means solving it with robots is worth trillions. Solving skilled labour is basically humanity's final boss. The incentive and reward to get there is unimaginable.
"In the next 10 years, skilled labor is going to become the most valued positions in the entire market." "AI can't wire a panel, run conduit, or weld a beam in the rain." "When a data center needs power, when a city needs new infrastructure, when the lights go out, you're not
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Oh good, it looks to be opt-in. I wonder what Udio will pay artists? Admittedly this is a cool idea… until the open source Chinese tool comes along and wipes them off the planet. Cool until then though.
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