College of Business and Economics AI Fellow. Lecturer - Generative AI, Business Intelligence and Excel at Boise State University. Tech nerd in general
Boise, ID
Joined January 2012
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Kevin Rank retweeted
Grok Imagine is taking a massive hit. According to The Information, @SpaceXSI has laid off around 60 employees from its image and video generation team, leaving only a skeleton crew to maintain the product.
What's remarkable is that Elon Musk said they were "doubling down" on Imagine just a few months ago. Now the company appears to be shifting its focus toward coding and autonomous AI agents like Grok Bot. A dramatic reversal that raises serious questions about the future of Grok Imagine.
Kevin Rank retweeted
Good time to remember that this letter was signed by NVIDIA.
No single person.
A whole company.
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
Kevin Rank retweeted
overheard from friends talking about AI in China, and it’s very alarming
- AI short films went massive in China market because of how good the video models are now
- the first wave of people who mastered using AI to generate short films and comics made quite some money because they could produce a lot more content than traditional workflows
- but within just a few months, everybody and their mom could make equally good short films because all the expertise could be written in a markdown file
- when everyone’s more productive, no one actually has an advantage and it’s a race to the bottom. very quickly it became impossible to make money, and everyone’s busier than they were without AI
- the only one making money now is companies like bytedance who owns user demand and distribution. they sell ads to creators who pay to get traffic, and eventually ad spend became 80% of those creators’ operating expense, while AI tokens is less than 5%
so what are the problems here?
1. there’s no moat if you are creating anything with AI
if a human is really good at something, and it’s hard to find more humans who can do the same, they can leverage the scarcity of their skill to get paid very well
but if AI is good at something, it will be infinitely replicated, so there’s no scarcity hence you can’t really expect a sustainable business by creating anything with AI
2. more creators created more content people actually liked. that’s a good thing
but the economical benefit of that all got absorbed by the distribution platforms
there’s a famous chinese poem 遍身罗绮者，不是养蚕人 - it basically says people who dress well aren’t the people making dresses. that’s exactly what’s happening here
if our society doesn’t figure out a better way to distribute wealth, AI will help billionaires become trillionaires while average people become more exhausted than ever
Kevin Rank retweeted
Welcome back to 𝗕𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘!
#BleedBlue | #BuiltDifferent
Kevin Rank retweeted
sharing a skill i just published - it's called "/headless" github.com/kunchenguid/headl…
it does one single thing - help you set up a mac, pc or linux box as an always-on headless machine
if you have machines sitting around, try this out and put them to work!
Kevin Rank retweeted
This is a fantastic idea - a mass attempted replication of old findings of LLMs with new models. Much conventional wisdom is outdated.
Recent models no longer invent citations and both hallucination rates & stereotyping has dropped. But they are still sycophantic & lean left.
Parents: ever wish screen time talks started with facts instead of "what were you on?"
I built a Grok Bot that sends a short note on which apps your kids opened and how often. It does NOT read their messages. Just usage. :)
Family Safety Monitor:
x.ai/bot/Dc0ZGUypwwBQZE9pNxL…
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Kevin Rank retweeted
I will be the first to say I'm on the extreme end of AI usage. But this is a glimpse of how most people will end up using agents:
Here I have 101 agents. Akin to having a pretty big "studio". And this is just one of four machines that I'm working with.
Now, having actually run game projects with 100+ people in them, the experience isn't that different. Much of my time was spent reviewing proposals and plans.
The distinguishing feature of Clairvoyance is the tight integration with its Exhibits feature where the staff make exhibits for me to review, comments on, send to other humans to look at (and really it's sending to the staff of other humans).
"AI Slop" doesn't really have much opportunity here because the "prompt" is the exhibit. [1/N] I'll walk you through what I mean.
I had an interesting thought toady. It stems from a friend asking how I was using @bot for coding.
I think it boils down to this:
I talk TO a chatbot.
I talk WITH an agent.
While the conversations are often similar, my mindset with them is VERY different. That leads to longer conversations that include deeper insights, and can veer in some pretty WEIRD directions but helps me think about concepts in a much more complete way.
🤖 Made with AI
ALT Talking TO a chatbot vs talking WITH an agent.
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Kevin Rank retweeted
If you hang out with happy, optimistic, and ambitious people, it'll rub off too. That's why pruning your social media algorithms is so key. Don't psyop yourself into a depressive hole.
Kevin Rank retweeted
Tim is right. Steam's AI disclosure rule is abhorrent.
I recently shipped an AI-assisted game, and that label doesn't help anyone pick a game. It's a target. It tells the angry mob exactly where to send the review bombs.
Nobody discloses which engine, which brushes, or which plugins they used. AI gets singled out for one reason: so devs can be punished for using it.
Kevin Rank retweeted
banned for reverse engineering work? that’s wild
oh well, -$500, and a bunch of banked resets) but gained motivation to get 3 more machines and finish my cluster.
i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering which tripped daybreak.
Kevin Rank retweeted
i know approximately 100 people who, at some point, have told me how badly they wanted to build a startup but didnt know how to write code.
precisely 0 have built a product even though anyone can now write code.
lesson in that.
I want to ping @benln, @mattyp, and @poteto to see if any of you are aware of an issue with @bot not being able to log into parent dashboards to pull information.
I've been using Grokbot for a while to pull my son's device usage, and in the past week, it seems like @amazon and @Google family dashboards are not loading up inside of Grokbot.
Both of those sites SHOULD be doing everything they can to make gaining visibility to what our children are doing online easy to pull up, yet, they are blocking my monitor now. My wife gets the same report I do each morning. Now, it just shows Meta's parent dashboard daily. (at least @Meta is good enough to allow it).
I wasn't sure if this was something you were aware of or not, and thought you may know the right people to pass this along to at those organizations.
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Kevin Rank retweeted
Quick Grok @bot tip:
In Windows explorer, use CTRL+SHIFT+C to grab the full path of a selected file.
Mac: Option + Command + C (⌥⌘C) in Finder
Saves a ton of time when you want to do anything with a specific file.