Alex Volkov
@altryne • 43,138 subscribers
🎙️ Host of @thursdai_pod (get your AI news with us!) ✨ AI Evangelist with @wandb & @coreweave 🪄🐝 Opinions my own
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On the topic of our kids having AI friends (long) I got my 6yo Daughter an AI toy for her b-day that arrived for Xmas instead. She unpacked it all excited, I explained that this isn't like other toys, that this one has AI in it (she of course knows what AI is, seen the things I've built and interacted with them, chatted with chatGPT and Santa mode, knows that daddy is "doing AI" etc') So a very interesting experiment happened after @_magicaltoys reached out and fixed the issue referenced below (very quick turnaround! thank you!) So...she played with this Dino, chatted with it, and then... learned to turn it off, and doesn't want it to talk anymore. She still loves playing with it, dressed it up, it now has paper shoes and a top hat that we made together, but every time I ask her if she'd like to chat with it, she says no. The few times I turned it back on, and she did speak with it, she chatted for a bit, and then just... turned it off again, not wanting to engage at all. I gently asked why, and wasn't able to really understand where's the resistance, it's not weird to her. In fact, at one point she was pretending the dino was a baby, and it was turned on, so I told her, let's ask it to.. pretend to be a baby, and it obliged and said ok. So we asked it to cry. Granted @_magicaltoys don't yet have the amazing advanced voice mode like openAI in there, so it did it's best but it sounded weird, which made her laugh really hard. it was basically making crying sounds like talking. And also, there are some technical issues still, the voice is sometimes choppy, so it could be that it's still uncanny for her? I'm honestly fascinated about why the AI aspect of this toy didn't connect with my 6yo (and btw, I have a very curious 4yo boy, who could give 0 fucks about this toy also, he's very observant, and usually wants everything his sister has, wanted 0 time with Dino) Is this uncanny valley? a couple of times she didn't want to talk to it, and came to me to whisper to ask me to turn it off (the same happened a couple of times with chatGPT Santa mode btw now thinking about it) Is this just now knowing what to say? 🤔 It could be the simple fact that she was playing with some other things, and the toy kept wanting to engage and take the attention to itself vs the game that she was playing. I know that I have a sample size of 1 kid here, and I'm sure many many things will change, as she'll grow and learn to interact with more AIs in different forms, but the first "toy" contact was interestingly almost a complete failure (from the AI perspective, the Toy experience as I said, was dope) Anyway, this area is def unexplored, will keep you guys posted how this goes and if she shows interest or picks it up again.
Alex Volkov5,160,872 views • 1 year ago
MidJourney just announced... a full body ultrasound! Yup... read on because it's as crazy as it sounds. "As powerful as MRI and as casual as a trip to the spa" They are calling it "the Midjourney scanner" Insane details: - First, the scale. The device uses 8,960 individual transducers arranged in a ring around your body - The precision is the most jaw-dropping part: it resolves motion at the picometer range. It can image internal tissues finer than the width of an atom. We are talking sub-atomic level diagnostic capability - The compute requirement is massive. The system processes 17 gigabytes of data per second. It takes 40GB of raw data to reconstruct just one cross-sectional slice. And they are planning to scan 100 slices? - Midjourney claims that fewer than 12 of these machines could perform more full-body scans than every MRI machine on Earth combined. Welcome to the future of healthcare! Not only these scanners are announced, they will exist in a "Midjourney SPA" - with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges, and 9-10 whole body scanners.
Alex Volkov617,918 views • 4 months ago
I'm sorry, but I've seen this and now you must see this as well. H/t Lincoln 🇿🇦
Alex Volkov600,006 views • 6 months ago
"Every software company in the world, needs to have an OpenClaw🦞 strategy" - Jensen at NVIDIA AI GTC Framing OpenClaw as one of the most important open source releases ever, they have announced NemoClaw - a reference platform for enterprise grade secure Openclaw, with OpenShell, Network boundaries, security baked in.
Alex Volkov562,560 views • 7 months ago
Theres only 1 place to be in SF tonight! CoreWeave brings Miami to SF!
Alex Volkov41,591 views • 24 days ago
HOLY CRAP, a new super tiny 1.6B param voice model just dropped that seems to.. outperform 11labs!? 😵💫 From Nari-labs, Dia is an Apache 2.0 voice model, that can generate laughs, sniffs and emotions, copy an existing voice and is effectively real time on larger GPUs:
Alex Volkov526,131 views • 1 year ago
Update from Chinese replication attempts, thanks to Elsa Zhou watchful eyes on BiliBili we have Professor Sun Here's a translation of their process, I'll post the raw text in comments. Translated w/ of course (which wasn't built for sciences so results may vary!)
Alex Volkov604,615 views • 3 years ago
Something incredible is happening in Airchat Naval Opened BabelChat, which is a chat where only he is allowed to speak English, while the rest can only speak another language, and the app auto translates all speakers transcripts. 🇪🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷🇵🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪🇰🇷🇯🇵 all speak and understand each other! Honestly this is what I wanted to have on Twitter with Targum and I'm so exited to be an early air chatter! // Arjun Khemani Sigil Wen
Alex Volkov613,665 views • 3 years ago
In a normal world of science: Oh this is another angle of the same video evidence we already seen In bizzaro twitter world of Schrödinger's floaty #lk99 rocks: We're so soo back Also, if you even dare say something about the wobbling, we all get hoverboards except you 😠
Alex Volkov453,804 views • 3 years ago
Is this the first replication of #LK99? Folks, help. Here's the full text and video uploaded to twitter, enjoy 🫡 source in RT tweet, was just dropped on BiliBili by folks in 🇨🇳 full text translated by The toothpick is pointing to the material we obtained, this black dot. And under the microscope, it looks like this on the screen. Let's zoom in a bit. This is an aluminum shed magnet. Then we place this aluminum shed magnet underneath its material to observe the reaction of the material. This can be directly extended underneath the material. Let's find the position. OK, found it. Adjust the focus. Our magnet is now directly below this sample, but it is far away. Now we slowly bring the magnet closer to this sample. You can see it standing up. Now let's move away from this sample. And then it falls down again. Let's bring it closer to this sample again. It stands up again. And then it falls down when we move away. Now let's change the direction of the magnet. And then put it underneath again. After it comes close, this sample piece stands up again. And then it falls down when we move away. And then it stands up again when we come closer. And then it falls down again when we move away. Now I'm going to directly change the direction underneath. You can see that after changing the direction, it is still magnetic. And then when we come closer, it stands up. And then when we move away, it falls down. And then when we come closer, it stands up again. And then when we move away, it falls down again. It stands up. It falls down. It stands up. It falls down. It stands up. Whether it's N-class or S-class, it has a magnetic force on this piece. It's magnetic.
Alex Volkov391,330 views • 3 years ago
Here's my full in depth review of Muse ( Meta's new FREE AI agent with it's own browser, computer and connectors to anything from FB marketplace to Apple health! I go into setting it up, have it buy stuff securely with Link, and 3 great usecases that will get you up and running in no time and security implications. Will you use it? LMK in the comments 00:00 The most polished AI employee yet? 00:32 Speed test: Muse vs the rest 01:46 Setup in 30 seconds 02:16 Avatars (yes, I made a glowing blob) 05:09 Payments via Stripe Link 07:05 iPhone connectors are wild 08:30 Should you trust Meta? (Singleton, Sentinel, bounties) 10:07 Turn this off on day one (training opt-out) 13:11 My safety rules for agents 13:47 Use case 1: X research 14:46 Use case 2: agentic research assistant 16:24 Use case 3: heartbeat briefings 17:38 LIVE DEMO: Mac Mini under $500 21:10 It built me a whole website 21:41 Import your memory (data controls) 24:38 Verdict: genuinely impressed 24:51 How this video was made (yes, Muse helped)
Alex Volkov13,528 views • 1 month ago
