I really wish it were more common for tech journalists covering AI to ask, like, any follow up questions when pitched ethically questionable AI products. Especially when these products make claims so extraordinary they would make a lie detector salesman blush.
Screenshot from the article that reads, "Tim Draper personally uses Mappa to assess founders his firm is considering investing in, and the educational platform Re-Skilling.ai uses the platform to understand skills that students can improve on. In the future, Lucena sees that Mappa could be used to help approve candidates for loans who don’t have an extensive credit history. She sees Mappa as a tool to help assess people more fairly in all kinds of settings."
THIS SEEMS FINE
Screenshot of the article that reads, "Mappa claims one of its biggest advantages is data. The startup built highly curated datasets specifically for understanding human behavior. Mappa originally attempted to assess candidates based on video submissions and their online presence; however, they’ve found voice analysis to be the most effective method."
"Highly curated" Who curated it? What was their rubric for curating? What was the data set? Where did they get it from? What are they measuring? How are they grading responses?
Screenshot from the linked article that says, “Mappa comes to the market with the goal of really, truly understanding people,” Lucena said in an interview with TechCrunch. “We don’t really categorize traits as good or bad. We understand traits as compatible or not.”
This in the context of it being an AI voice clip analyzing company marketed towards HR for screening applicants but with a bunch of really cool other use cases too!
My understanding is that profit is still iffy if you factor in high data center $ just for inference, poor scaling, etc. That plus low conversion of paying subs at current artificially low rates - doesn’t bode well for when they have to ⬆️ price to match actual costs.
Ed had a good overview recently
Screenshot of a premium Where’s Your Ed At newsletter (you should subscribe and give Ed your money) that reads: Nevertheless, even if OpenAI is in a position where it is making $200 billion by the year 2030, it will need to have raised at least $500 Billion to get there, and when you add its obligations — including those given to NVIDIA — it will have to raise (or have partners raise) another $400 or so billion. This is more than the projected available supply of US venture capital at the end of 2025 ($164 billion), and the combined available capital of the top 10 private equity funds ($477 billion), as well as the $50 billion of available direct lending capital from JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs (about $35 billion across two closes).
Lol “because everybody is now talking about how OpenAI has promised everybody $1 trillion — something you could have read about two weeks ago on my premium newsletter.” Absolutely deserved dunk. I felt insane reading this the other week and wondering why no one else was talking about it
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This piece was excellent! I love how Elad contextualized by going back to Bush era financial meltdown / failed change from Obama to explain in part the disillusionment of voters in 2024. “…voting won’t give us hope and it won’t take us where we need to go. It is the result of hope.”
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Ingredients 450g bread flour 50g sugar 6g salt 1 cup 2% milk 1 egg 2 tablespoons butter (29g) 7g instant dry yeast 1/4 cup bread crumbs Instructions 1. In a big bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt 2. Pour in milk, beaten egg, and melted butter. Mix until well blended. Make sure the milk is only mildly warm and not hot 3. Add the instant dry yeast and fold until a sticky dough forms 4. Put the dough on a lightly floured board and knead for 10 minutes 5. Form dough into a ball. Lightly coat with oil. But in a large bowl covered with a towel or plastic wrap and let rise until doubled in size (30 min to an hour) 6. Punch dough down and divide into two. Roll into a log shape. Cut each log into 6 equal portions (~65g) 7. Roll each piece into a ball. Coat lightly with oil and roll in bread crumbs. 8. Place dough balls on a lined baking sheet. Leave about an inch gap between balls. Let rise until doubled in size. 9. Pre-heat oven to 370F 10. Bake pandesal for 15 min or until the sides are lightly browned
A cat is QUICKLY approaching an innocent, freshly baked bread roll split in half and covered with soft butter. The cat will stop at NOTHING to get da bread!!!!
Baked the second half of my first batch of pandesal today. Lessons learned from the second go round:
- Portioned out dough more evenly
- Lightly coated dough balls in oil to help the bread crumbs stick better
Recipe below 🪡
In the foreground is a red bordered cutting board with 6 lightly oiled dough balls arranged in sets of two. There is a kitchen knife on the cutting board. A cat is behind the board sitting very cutely and pretending like he doesn’t notice me taking a picture of him. The cat his medium length brown fur. He is evil but I love him anyway
My house demon, Clargg, is helping me bake
4. Put the dough on a lightly floured board and knead for 10 minutes
5. Form dough into a ball. Lightly coat with oil. But in a large bowl covered with a towel or plastic wrap and let rise until doubled in size (30 min to an hour)
Instructions
1. In a big bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt
2. Pour in milk, beaten egg, and melted butter. Mix until well blended. Make sure the milk is only mildly warm and not hot
3. Add the instant dry yeast and fold until a sticky dough forms
Jan’s video was cool and the bread looked good so I decided to try and make some myself. Not bad for a first attempt!
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Seriously though I'm loving how straightforward and accessible the @atproto.com documentation is
atproto.com/guides/self-...
Looking into hosting a BlueSky PDS. No I'm not procrastinating. Yes I don't have anything better to do why do you ask?
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Salt the fuck out of your tomatoes. Follow me for more #CookingAdvice
I appreciated your interview. Personally, I think it is important to expose vapid fascists for who they are. But I understand that other people who I largely agree with have differing opinions on this matter.
Thank you for all of your work in this space.
Looks great! What is that pink coating around the outside made of?
This is Bug
