Things I read last week… (WB 24 Oct 2022)
Matt Levine: The Crypto Story.
“Up until recently, machines had no chance of competing with humans at creative work—they were relegated to analysis and rote cognitive labor. But machines are just starting to get good at creating sensical and beautiful things.”
“Every industry that requires humans to create original work—from social media to gaming, advertising to architecture, coding to graphic design, product design to law, marketing to sales—is up for reinvention.”
– Sequoia on Generative AI.
“…languages like Mandarin, English, and Spanish are both written and spoken, Hokkien — which is widely spoken within the Chinese diaspora — is primarily oral. In fact, Chen and his team of researchers are among the first to use AI to construct a translation system for languages like Hokkien that lack a formal or widely known writing system.”
– Meta develops AI to translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the first time.
Stratechery on chips and China.
Lex Friedman interviews Andrej Karpathy, AI researcher Tesla, OpenAI. [YouTube]
On ML powered drug discovery. [Part 1] [Part 2]
A new stack for a new biology.
Horizontal gene transfer from snakes to frogs in Madagascar.