Mastodawn

The creator of the Signal messaging app has a new privacy focused AI chat bot called Confer: https://confer.to/ . I've read their blog post on how they're doing private inference and it's really impressive and cool. It should prevent them (or anyone other than you) from being able to read your chat log.

Confer

Confer - Private AI

Alethea Power Sep 10, 2023

Whoa. This is interesting.

"...its Corsair C8 compute card that is said to have 9x the throughput of an Nvidia H100 GPU in generative AI workloads."

https://www.notebookcheck.net/d-Matrix-presents-Corsair-C8-card-9x-faster-than-Nvidia-s-H100-GPU-in-generative-AI-workloads.747930.0.html

d-Matrix presents Corsair C8 card 9x faster than Nvidia's H100 GPU in generative AI workloads

The Corsair C8 AI accelerator leverages the power of d-Matrix's proprietary digital-in-memory computer (DIMC) technology. With 2,048 such DIMCs that are aided by 256 GB of LPDDR5 RAM and an additional 2 GB SRAM, a single accelerator can reach speeds of up to 9600 TFLOPS.

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Alethea Power Sep 6, 2023

Naomi Saphra Aug 22, 2023

I feel like we now have a domain-generic version of IANAL. I’m gonna start prefacing any statement I make about an area outside of my expertise with AAAILM (As An AI Language Model).

Alethea Power Aug 14, 2023

Eric Topol Aug 14, 2023

I learned today via FDA why and when the new Covid boosters will be ready
—The reason for the delay is that the Covid Public Health Emergency ended May 11, 2023, so it requires a Product Licensing Application (PLA) instead of an EUA
—Now projected to be available ~9/15

Alethea Power Aug 10, 2023

How has it taken me this long to realize that the letter at the beginning of an Nvidia GPU model is an abbreviation of the micro architecture of that GPU series?

P100 - Pascal
V100 - Volta
A100 - Ampere
H100 - Hopper

Alethea Power Aug 7, 2023

Julia Serano Aug 4, 2023

since the NY Times is doing it's thing again – quoting anti-trans groups to make gender-affirming care for trans youth seem dubious – I will re-up this essay, which includes over 100 peer-reviewed studies and reviews:
https://juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth-is-neither-new-nor-experimental-a-timeline-and-compilation-b4bb8375d797?sk=bc6099a519dff7fdeecc2b2038b0f2fb #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #science

Alethea Power Jul 26, 2023

xkcd bot (now with alt text)Jul 25, 2023

title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.

(https://xkcd.com/2806)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2806)

Anti-Vaxxers

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Alethea Power Jul 21, 2023

PS - Asking because my cousin died from covid, and three of my (otherwise healthy, fully vaxxed and boosted) friends are severely disabled from it. Also, CDC says approximately 20% of people who catch it continue to have symptoms 18 months later.

Alethea Power Jul 21, 2023

Getting ready to head to ICML in Honolulu tomorrow. I haven’t traveled much since 2020. How are hotels doing with HEPA filters in room AC vents these days, and how are people handling it when A/C filtering is not in place?

Alethea Power Jul 12, 2023

What would you recommend someone read if they are skeptical of the Yudkowsky/AI “doomer” perspective, but curious to learn more and open to having their mind changed by good arguments? I’m especially interested in arguments that might be convincing to a logical, thoughtful, open minded person coming from outside the rationalist/EA/utilitarian worldview.

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