Keep pulling the thread on Nat Friedman.
The core argument for Microsoft acquiring GitHub was that developers were increasingly making IT purchasing decisions, and Microsoft needed to win over a new generation of developers who had no affinity for the company.
On average, more than 50% of code written by users is now generated by Copilot.
The percentage of code written by Copilot for its users will likely reach 95%.
Unlike previous platform shifts like PC, web, and mobile, incumbents are not deriding AI and are instead adopting it aggressively.
There is a notable absence of an open-source community focused on building technical AI alignment tools.
AI model development is currently experiencing diminishing returns from increasing scale.
GPT-4 was likely 100 times more expensive to train than GPT-3, but its capabilities are not 100 times greater.
There is a "compute overhang," with the global supply of compute power far exceeding what is currently used for training AI models.
Reading all the Herculaneum scrolls would approximately double the total amount of text available from antiquity.
Professor Brent Seales at the University of Kentucky used a particle accelerator in Oxford, England called the Diamond Light Source to create high-resolution CT scans of the Herculaneum scrolls in 2019.
The main library in the Herculaneum villa, which may contain a larger collection of Latin literary and historical texts, has likely not yet been excavated.
Brent Seales' lab has recently demonstrated the ability to recognize ink inside Herculaneum scroll X-rays using a convolutional neural network.