The Independent Variable
The Independent Variable
Kevin Humdrum
Welcome to The Independent Variable, the official linkblog of the interwebs covering culture, politics, sports, and tech since 2012.
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MediumLeCun thinks we need completely different approaches, including what he calls āworld models,ā before we can talk seriously about AGI. His timeline? At least a decade, probably much longer.Iām obviously no expert, but Iāve been...
Manu MorealeNew newsletter that Iām excited for from Manu kicking off in the new year.
FuturismCoca-Cola is back with another series of AI-generated ads to herald the holidays ā and they look just as bad as they did last year.What an expensive and ugly ad. People keep saying āThIs iS ThE WoRsT AI WiLl EvEr bE,ā and sure,...
Apple MusicDidnāt catch this yesterday, but what a great three song set from White with Eminem joining for the second, rapping āTill I Collapse over Hello Operator.
*FTBased on a total cumulative deal value of up to $1.8tn, OpenAI is heading for a data centre rental bill of about $620bn a year ā though only a third of the contracted power is expected to be online by the end of this decade.The charts...
SF StandardWhen I pressed Foody on his utopian vision, and why he thinks tech companies wonāt hoard the spoils of the AI boom, he waved his hand and described a future in which everyone has $10 million in purchasing power, lives in a...
DefectorThe people who own and populate the sports discourse have every professional incentive not to āfreak out about sports betting,ā because the vast majority of them are for all practical purposes employees of sports betting...
BandcampI featured this on yesterdayās media guide on Foofaraw, but wanted to give it another shout-out here. Itās fantastic and every penny goes to Defending our Neighbors.
annieās blogDonāt forget to like, subscribe, share, burn it all down, etc.I personally canāt wait for episode two! š
THRUnited Talent Agency has signed the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, the governing body for āthe king of cheesesā Parmigiano Reggiano, to get the supermarket staple placement in films, TV shows and streaming projects around the...
PoliticoAbigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill cruised to double-digit victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Two Georgia Democrats flipped seats on the stateās Public Service Commission, the first non-federal statewide wins for a Democrat...
Roc CameraAI has blurred the line. Now, how we take, share, and create images has changed. Social media has made sharing images easy. Generative AI now creates any image we can imagineā¦By combining attested sensor data, zero-knowledge...
ESPNThere are still a lot of unknowns about this, and Iāve seen passing mention that the FBI might be overstating how big of a bust this is and maybe conflating a few different things to make it look bigger to put a black eye on the NBA,
TheWrapI typically reserve this kind of link for Foofaraw, but the idea of Steven Soderbergh doing a Star Wars movie is just too fascinating. I feel like you could add up the budget of his last ten movies and they still wouldnāt equal a...
TechCrunchSky is a product I actually thought could have some real utility. Security was always the issue though, and now that OpenAI controls them, Iām not sure Iād want OpenAI to be able to essentially see everything I do on my computer.