Brendon Marotta

I've deleted a lot of tweets that I really shouldn't have deleted because I couldn't take the heat, and I think enough time has passed that I am going to reverse-apologize for the time I said people who wear Patagonia vests at Michelin Star restaurants are "slobs."

If your AI characters sound fake, the fix is almost always in how you write and DIRECT the dialogue in your prompt. I recently started on the dialogue-heavy scenes for my AI feature film about Beethoven, and too many of the lines kept coming out wrong. They’d sound too theatrical, too monotone, or too much like a practice read-through between actors. (all this despite the fact that Seedance 2.5 is fantastic when it comes to realism.) So through a whole lot of trial and error, I've found that these 5 things made the biggest impact on the quality of the dialogue delivery in my generations: 1. Paying close attention to the written punctuation used. 2. Breaking long lines into shorter ones, with intentional pauses. 3. Using bodily actions as punctuation (this one gave the biggest improvement BY FAR! In the attached clip, note the sniffles in between Beethoven's lines. That alone made the delivery feel much more natural.) 4. Using "anchor gestures" (he lifts his finger as if to say "one sec") 5. Just split your generations in two (stupid simple, but it really makes a difference.) So if your characters keep sounding like they're reading from a teleprompter, give this a try!

This paper answers why can’t you remember being a baby? For over a century, science said you can't remember being a baby because your infant brain was just too "immature" to record anything. researchers assumed your hard drive was basically turned off for the first two years of life. But this wild paper from Yale completely rewrites how we understand human memory.. Researchers literally put awake babies (between 4 and 25 months old) into an fMRI scanner to watch their brains process new visual experiences in real-time. and what they found is mindblowing.. the infant hippocampus isn't turned off at all. it is actively firing, capturing, and encoding episodic memories. they proved that babies with higher hippocampal activity during a new experience formed a highly stable memory trace. the babies are recording the data. the memory of your first birthday, your first steps, the exact layout of the room you slept in.. it was all successfully saved to your brain. so why can't you remember it? the paper concludes that infantile amnesia isn't an "encoding" problem.. it is a "retrieval" problem. your brain recorded everything perfectly. but as you grew, your brain underwent massive developmental shifts, like explosive neurogenesis (the rapid birth of new neurons), which completely restructured your neural networks. the pathways to access those early files got buried or locked away. you didn't fail to make the memories.. you just lost the encryption key to open them. somewhere deep in your hippocampus, the exact first-person memory of being a 1-year-old might still be sitting there. you just can't access the file anymore.. the human brain is terrifyingly beautiful.

AI is popular because it disrupts content distribution monopolies and rights holders grasp over the culture. It is unpopular among people who depend on those monopolies, because everyone wants to redistribute the means of production until it actually starts happening.

Sama is very challenging for people to engage with because you have to listen to all the words he says in the order that he says them

Great Gatsby recently entered public domain. Huge gold rush of characters, stories, and setting that are all becoming royalty-free over the next decade.

Introducing DEEP AMERICA: A Subterranean Plan for the Nation. Strider Capital presents Phase 3 of the National Security Renaissance plan. This is a proposal to build America’s defense, civil, and youth institutions underground. /1

Dario reveals the people who called his GPT-2 fears "pseudoscience" in 2019 are now all applying for jobs at AI labs "I personally was super freaked out by [GPT-2]. I looked at it and I said, my God, you just scale this thing up another factor of a million and it'll be better than humans at everything. This is the defining economic and scientific moment of the modern age. We just don't know it yet. This is going to determine the fate of nations and economies and the future of humanity." "Maybe 10% of the people around me had exactly the same reaction, and it was often the smartest ones. 90% of the people around me, because GPT-2's capabilities in any particular area were not that impressive, it could translate languages, summarize a document and write a few lines of code here and there. It was the broadness and the generality." "But people would look at it and say, in any particular area, that doesn't seem so smart. And so many people just shrugged and they just dismissed it." "I just look at it and I say it's the same thing over and over again. The limitations of the models, six months from now, the things that seemed hard, they're going to be easy. 12 months from now, the things that seemed impossible, the models are going to be doing them regularly." "It's everything we saw with GPT-2; we're seeing it over and over again in wider and wider swaths of the world. And the world is gradually finally being convinced." Daniela Amodei: "I remember at the time there were some very well-respected computer scientists and AI and ML leaders who basically bullied some of the researchers who worked on [GPT-2] on Twitter and were like, this is stupid. We don't know why you guys are even talking, this model is so incapable." "It was like you were sort of a quack if you believed this was a really significant moment." Dario: "That's all been memory-holed. All the researchers who were like, oh, this is pseudoscience, it doesn't make sense, all of them are applying for jobs at the LLM companies." "We never say it out loud to any particular one, but we look at them and they're like, we remember what you were saying in 2019. You have no credibility on this matter."