"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."
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Focus. Easily spoken, hard to live by. There are many lessons that Bitcoin teaches, and one that is more clearly true the older I get, is that every single thing in a trade off. And not just solutions, or tools, or networks, but the very thing that you spend your time thinking about, at the expense of all other things. What dreams you spend your time building, at the expense of all other dreams. What new ideas you begin, at the expense of what you've already started, and not yet finished.

Its time for an overdue change, and today I wanted to share my thoughts, how we got here, and what to expect in the future.

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• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdcdduxn)

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Is the pursuit of artificial general intelligence a pipe dream? Are the economics of building massive AI models unsustainable? And what if the future of AI isn't about creating a single, all-powerful intelligence, but rather a multitude of small, specialized tools? In this episode, we explore the latest developments in AI and challenge the conventional wisdom about where the field is headed.

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• The Subprime AI Crisis Article (Link: https://tinyurl.com/39m3x2ws)
• Andrew McCarthy's photos of the rocket launch and catch SpaceX (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2s47nz5h)
• Ashenbrenner's piece on super intelligence and AGI (Situational Awareness) (Link:https://situational-awareness.ai/)
• Ai_035 - My Favorite Ai Tool (Link: https://youtu.be/gO6KBYwetkU)

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What do numerous over-hyped product launches, massively subsidized compute, over extended investment, lack of customer adoption, unwillingness to pay extra, enormous and increasing costs, and total dependence on a few massive players have in common?

The big tech Ai industry!

Today we dive into a fantastic breakdown of the state of the ai market, and the potentially dismal financial forecast for the poster child of Ai success, OpenAi. Is there really a massive market here that supports 100 billion dollar investments ongoing? Or is it all smoke and mirrors with a very uncertain future.

Check out the original article by Edward Zitron at wheresyoured.at (Link: https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/)

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Today we dive into my favorite Ai app, combining dozens of open source tools unlocking a new era of creativity and productivity? How can you harness the power of AI to simplify workflows and organize our digital lives? Join me as I explore the possibilities and implications of AI-powered tools and share my own experiences with Pinokio and other innovative applications.

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• Pinokio.computer (Link: Pinokio.computer)
• Comfy UI (Link: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI)
• Whisper C++ (Link: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp)
• Flux (Link: https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge)
• Stable Diffusion Automatic1111 (Link: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui)
• Florence 2 (Link: https://huggingface.co/spaces/gokaygokay/Florence-2)
• Ollama (Link: https://ollama.com/)
• Access Your AI From ANYWHERE with Holesail + Ai (Link: https://youtu.be/Ajxg-rX2Lao)
• Free, Unlimited Transcription using Ai (Link: https://youtu.be/ZDw8ZNFBKes)
  

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Will the increasing shift towards smaller, more efficient AI models revolutionize the way we interact with AI? Can open-source models and fine-tunes like Hermes 3 and Grok 2 challenge the dominance of proprietary models? And what does the future hold for AI development as the hype and investment surrounding AI begin to wane? Join me as I explore these questions and more on this episode of Ai Unchained.

Links to check out to explore more:

• Jimmy Song: AI vs Bitcoin (Link: https://primal.net/e/note1rwa45e9flhmtyw85gwprfsqr0vs4fldhv5sc8ejqzqwurefjz7xqmrs92n)
• fabric: extract wisdom (Link: https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/blob/main/patterns/extract_wisdom/system.md)
• Deep-Live-Cam: Real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image (Link: https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam)
• AgentK: An autoagentic AGI that is self-evolving and modular (Link: https://github.com/mikekelly/AgentK)
• hailuoai (Link: https://hailuoai.com/video)
• Linux Foundation’s adoption of OMI could pave way for ethical LLMs, analysts say | InfoWorld (Link: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3486247/linux-foundations-adoption-of-omi-could-pave-way-for-ethical-llms-analysts-say.html)
• We finally have a definition for open-source AI | MIT Technology Review (Link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/22/1097224/we-finally-have-a-definition-for-open-source-ai/)
• Introducing World’s First Automatic and AI-powered Deepfake Detector | McAfee Blog (Link: https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/internet-security/mcafee-deepfake-detector-with-lenovo/)
• Freedom at the Frontier: Hermes 3 - NOUS RESEARCH (Link: https://nousresearch.com/freedom-at-the-frontier-hermes-3/)
• Grok-2 Beta Release (Link: https://x.ai/blog/grok-2)
  

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"When you introduce 2 million, 10 million "developers" that were never developers into an ecosystem that's used to having closed platforms and silos and stuff, what do those 10 million motivated people build? They're more likely to build the solution that they always wanted and that they build something that gets around these silos.
One of the most important things that's going on right now is the shift from closed platforms to open protocols. The more that all of that stuff is open, the more the walls, the potential barriers that appear to lock people into these platforms will just kind of start to fall away.
On a long enough timeline, open just wins."
- Guy Swann


In a recent episode of The Staying Free Podcast, I had a valuable conversation with my friend and colleague Jonny, also known as jonnyhodl. We delved into the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and individual sovereignty, challenging the conventional narratives that often depict AI as a threat to freedom.

We explored the open versus closed system debate, questioning whether decentralization can truly safeguard our liberties in an age of intelligent machines. The discussion also touched on crucial issues like privacy, autonomy, and human agency, encouraging people to rethink their understanding of AI. Could AI be a tool for liberation, or are we on the brink of a new form of control?

This was a conversation worth sharing, as it offers deep insights into the potential of AI to either enhance or erode our freedoms.

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Open source Ai is catching up. In this episode of AI Unchained, we explore the implications of the dominant open source models actually competing with proprietary models. We challenge assumptions about AI development trajectories, drawing parallels with other technological evolutions. Could the next AI revolution be horizontal rather than vertical, and what might this mean for accessibility and innovation in the field?

Links to check out

• Llama 3.1 and the 405B parameter model (Link: https://tinyurl.com/watcb3nx)
• Mark Zuckerberg's article about Llama 3.1 (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2cc5jkb2)
• Claude AI (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2x733k3e)
• Unleashed.chat (Link: https://unleashed.chat/)
• Venice.ai (Link: https://venice.ai/home)
• Ai Read #007 - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS - The Decade Ahead (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mryfkfpz)
• #017 - From Closed AI to Open Source with NVK (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdhb2upp)
• Devs Who Can't Code #4 - App Scaling with Global State (Link: https://youtu.be/z-2SL5l51Gg)
  
  

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“Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

Is AI really all hype and oversold gimmicks, or is it going to change the world and replace everyone with software workers? Or are both of these views a distraction from what's right in front of us? How is AI useful today for very real tasks? In this episode, we'll dive into some major new open-source models and releases, along with exploring the very practical applications of LLMs with the help of Nicholas Carlini's fantastic article on where he finds value today. I also want to challenge the pessimistic views about AI's impact on jobs and share how we can leverage these tools to enhance our work and bring new projects to life. But how can you start using AI effectively in your daily tasks and creative endeavors? Let's find out.

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• Article on "How I Use AI" by Nicholas Carlini (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3k4v7n48)
• Llama 3.1 (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3aasjjue)
• Claude AI assistant (Link: https://tinyurl.com/exhtxfwp)
• Flux.one (Link: https://flux.one/en/home/)
• Runway Gen 3 video generation model (Link: https://runwayml.com/product)
• Live Portrait (Link: https://liveportrait.org/)
• Perplexity.ai (Link: https://www.perplexity.ai/)
• Fabric AI (Link: https://www.fabrichq.ai/)

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