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I’ve developed a new open source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin. It’s completely decentralized, with no central server or trusted parties, because everything is based on crypto proof instead of trust. Give it a try, or take a look at the screenshots and design paper: Download Bitcoin v0.1 at http://www.bitcoin.org The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust....

Montenegro is nice This weekend I was at the AI x Crypto event at Zuzalu, a pop-up city in Montenegro. It is really very nice there, do swing by Tivat. It was great to meet the awesome folk trying hard to figure out this crazy time, I will speak more on the various things in upcoming posts (awesome to meet the amazing Vitalik Buterin in person (I’m a huge fan) & Grimes had some super interesting insights even if we completely disagreed on some things - stable diffusion moment for music incoming)....

If you were wondering if Google Glass survived a full shower, here’s some photographic proof courtesy of tech industry cheerleader Robert Scoble. “You thought I was kidding when I said I would never take them off,” Scoble wrote on his Google+ page this afternoon. “Yes, they survive being wet. I had them full on soaked in my shower this morning. +Google Glass still works.” Good luck scrubbing this image from your mind....

Code to promisify setTimeout const delay = (time) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => setTimeout(resolve, time)) Usage delay(2000).then(() => console.log('Hello i will get logged after 2 second(s)'))

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. Corbis via Getty Images As the battle in artificial intelligence technology heats up between Silicon Valley companies, Google cofounder Sergey Brin is getting hands-on again with software code, after years of day-to-day absence. On Jan. 24, Brin appeared to file his first request in years for access to code, according to screenshots viewed by Forbes. Two sources said the request was related to LaMDA, Google’s natural language chatbot—a project initially announced in 2021, but which has recently garnered increased attention as Google tries to fend off rival OpenAI, which released the popular ChatGPT bot in November....

FUTURE SHOCK | ChatGPT’s popularity was unexpected inside the company. “None of us were that enamored by it,” says OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman. “None of us were like, ‘This is really useful.’ ” Ethan Pines for Forbes In an unremarkable conference room inside OpenAI’s office, insulated from the mid-January rain pelting San Francisco, company president Greg Brockman surveys the “energy levels” of the team overseeing the company’s new artificial intelligence model, ChatGPT....

Illustration by Gracelynn Wan for Forbes In 2016, a few months after becoming CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai made a sweeping proclamation: Google, whose name had become synonymous with search, would now be an “AI-first” company. Announced at Google’s massive I/O developer conference, it was his first major order of business after taking the company reins. What AI-first meant, exactly, was murky, but the stakes were not. Two years earlier, Amazon had blindsided Google by releasing its voice assistant Alexa....

Illustration by Gracelynn Wan for Forbes; Photo by Coneyl Jay/Getty Images Now valued at $300 million while still pre-revenue, per a source, Tome says it’s the fastest productivity software maker to ever reach 1 million users since its September release. IN a chat box below a black and otherwise blank canvas, Tome cofounder Henri Liriani types a request for a fundraising pitch for a telescope startup. In less than a minute, Tome’s software unfurls the presentation he requested: eight slides organized by a table of contents, complete with intro text, business model and sales plan—even cyberpunk-themed images, all generated by AI....

Mental models Over the years we build up all sorts of mental models of how the world is. One of the ones I have been using recently is that it is relatively easy to speak face to face, notwithstanding shyness, social anxiety and more. Writing is harder, much harder, especially concise writing. Blaise Pascal in 1657 wrote: Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte....

“A Stable Vicuña” — Stable Diffusion XL Background In recent months, there has been a significant push in the development and release of chatbots. From Character.ai’s chatbot last spring to ChatGPT in November and Bard in December, the user experience created by tuning language models for chat has been a hot topic. The emergence of open access and open-source alternatives has further fueled this interest. The Current Environment of Open Source Chatbots...