Author Archives: KevinYager
AI News 2024-07-04
Research Insights Tools There are several demos of multi-agent orchestration systems (Camel, LoopGPT, JARVIS, OpenAGI, AutoGen, TaskWeaver, MetaGPT). Increasingly, cloud solutions are also appearing: A related coordination strategy is to triage user queries, to balance between fast/small models and expensive/better … Continue reading
AI News 2024-06-27
Research Insights Anthropic OpenAI LLMs Science Robots Vision Virtual Avatars Tools Hardware
Towards a Science Exocortex
What is the future of AI in science? I propose that the community should work together to build an exocortex—an expansion to a researcher’s cognition and volition made possible by AI agents operating on their behalf. The rise of large … Continue reading
AI News 2024-06-14
Research Insights World Synthesis Neural radiance and Gaussian splatting are making it possible to generate high-quality 3D imagery that is fast to render. Where is this headed? Video Audio Apple
Situational Awareness
Leopold Aschenbrenner (previously at OpenAI) offers some unique perspectives on the future of AI. His paper “situational awareness” paints a picture of an inevitable AI-Manhatten project. If you want to look into his arguments, here are some different formats: It’s … Continue reading
AI News 2024-06-06
Research Insights Audio Avatars AI audio/video avatars are advancing rapidly. (So this is your periodic reminder to be increasingly skeptical of videos you see, and of random phone calls from loved ones asking you for money.)
How to break apart Python pathlib Paths?
Python pathlib is the modern way to handle file paths. But I always forget how to break apart a path into components (directory part, filename part, etc.). This image is a cheat-sheet for working with Path, breaking it apart into … Continue reading
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How to convert dates/times in Python?
Working with dates and times in Python often involves converting between the various possible representations. Here is a graphic to quickly lookup how to convert between the different formats (epoch, struct_time, Python datetime object, string representation, and matplotlib date convention).
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Quarantine Email
Awhile ago, I wrote some code to graph my email behavior (in the spirit of Stephen Wolfram). I have been teleworking for the last 11 weeks (due to COVID19), and was curious to see how this shows up in my … Continue reading