🤦‍♂️ WWSD? Sam Altman aka SAMA - The Man, The Myth, The Legend

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What’s better than waking up to a freshly brewed cup of coffee, diet coke, or a slap in the face? Trick question. Reading The Daily XP 😝 Happy Friday!

Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 🤦‍♂️ WWSD? Sam Altman aka SAMA - The Man, The Myth, The Legend

• ☄️ A New AI Just Uncovered More Than 27,000 Asteroids

• 😁 F2P Friday - BeeDone Gamified Productivity

• 🎈 You Can Now Stay in the “Up” House, Ballons and All

WWSD? Sam Altman aka SAMA - The Man, The Myth, The Legend

OpenAI’s founder has quite the history.

• Programmed and took apart a Macintosh computer at 8 years old

• Like Steve Jobs, he’s an obsessive visionary CEO who’s company gave em’ the boot just to be welcomed back.

• Studied computer science at Stanford for 2 years before dropping out.

• Founded Loopt mobile app, one of the first companies at Y Combinator, they were there at the same time as Reddit.

• Sold Loopt for $43 million in 2012 and created venture fund, Hydrazine Capital, with $5 million of his money and Peter Thiel investment.

• 75% of Hydrazine’s money went toward Y Combinator companies including Reddit’s Series B round.

• At 28, in 2014, Altman was chosen to became Paul Graham’s successor at Y Combinator.

• Elon Musk and Sammy cofounded OpenAI in 2015 so AI doesn’t wipe out humans.

• Stepped down from Y Combinator in 2019 to focus on OpenAI and became CEO.

• The rest is history!!

• Lastly, he’s a doomsday prepper.

Recently, Sam was interviewed by MIT Technology Review and shared a few insights:

• “We” as normal people, will want killer assistants that know us inside and out and “just work.”

• Woah… he called ChatGPT-4 “incredibly dumb”

• Generative AI is sorta stuck in a chat interface but what if it isn’t? Sh*t is about to get wild!

• Training data is being gobbled up but soon it may not be a problem at all.

Read more about Sammy boy’s personal takes here:

• Y Combinator Blog - Sam’s Posts

• Sam’s Personal Blog

• Medium Posts by SAMA

A new AI just uncovered 27,000 asteroids from old telescope pics

On top of that, this new AI, codenamed THOR, also found 150 asteroids that’ll be floating right past Earth. Keyword, past Earth. There won’t be any scenes out of the movie Armageddon featuring Bruce Willis dismantling an asteroid… yet.

Now you might be thinking, “Well how in the hell did 27,000 asteroids go sleeper cell agent and remain undetected?” Honestly, really just human error.

Apparently, studying asteroids is all manual work. And painstakingly so. Traditionally, astronomers find asteroids by analyzing telescope images taken hours apart to spot moving points of light. With over 100 billion stars in the sky, some things will definitely be missed. Although to date, we’ve found 1.2 million asteriods this way, which by the way is absolutely bonkers, but thanks to THOR, we can rest our eyes a bit.

Instead of manually scanning a small pocket of stars, THOR can look at a measly 1.7 billion points of light in one image to detect any strange anomalies. Yeah, that’s a lot of stars.

And to put the power of THOR into a bigger perspective, astronomers are going to hook it up to an 8.4 meter long telescope, aim that son of gun at the southern sky, and to their estimates, find over 2.4 million more hidden asteriods. In its first 6 months.

Keep Bruce Willis on speed dial. He just might have to save Earth, again.

😁 F2P Friday

Where we share an up-and-coming AI freebie to keep an eye on.

BeeDone.co

The idea of using gamification to become more productive sounds more fun than whacking a clown with his own shoe.

The app is a little quirky and asks you some personal questions about how you prefer to finish tasks. For example, maybe you like batching tasks or thrive on waiting until the last minute.

Here are some quick notes:

• Simply put, as you complete tasks, you earn XP. There are various tools to use besides the To Do List but frankly, we haven’t unlocked all of the fun games like “Task Roulette” or Breath To Achieve.

• The UI isn’t fully intuitive but you figure out how to navigate with some trial and error.

• There’s a helpful AI assistant avatar in the top right near your profile icon.

Love the idea, still questionable on the execution, but try it out and let us know what you think!!

The app is free but they try to get you to “pay” for the free trial via Stripe. Just click the X! You do NOT need to enter your CC information to try the app.

🤗 Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

If you’re huge Up fans like us, you can now book through Airbnb a chance to stay in the exact replica of the house, balloons and all, while floating 50ft in the air. Just don’t plan on leaving…

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 👮 Microsoft puts a ban on US police officers from using their AI tools for facial recognition

• 🌊 Job recruiters are getting overwhelmed by the tsunami of resumes flooding their inboxes thanks to generative AI and the ease of applying to open positions.

• 🙃 Washed Out created a trippy AI music video takes you down memory lane on a small budget and a side of motion sickness for “The Hardest Part.”

• 🦁 There’s a growing group of AI experts that are calling for swift action against AI weapons fearing this is an “Oppenheimer Moment” type of event.

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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