Alex Ker 🔭 (@thealexker) / X

Alex Ker 🔭

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Alex Ker 🔭

@thealexker

@baseten eng+gtm, early-stage investing | sharing how to apply AI thoughtfully and intentionally | prev: @stanfordhai @bloombergbeta @neurable

Joined May 2018

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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jul 22, 2023
The future of building startups with AI: - No-code website - Generate demand before you build - Community-driven go-to-market - AI as an intern, peer, or advisor, depending on the task - AI coding co-pilot: unit tests, simple features, debugging - AI marketing co-pilot:
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Oct 29, 2023
Many startups just died today. Because OpenAI added PDF chat. You can also chat with data files and other document types. We had a wave of products better suited as features rather than stand-alone companies. Wrappers are being squeezed by OpenAI on one side and incumbents on
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Oct 15, 2023
Does GPT understand the world? Here is what @ilyasut, co-founder of OpenAI, says during a discussion with Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia: (1) When we train a large neural network to accurately predict the next word in lots of different texts from the internet, the AI is
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jul 19, 2023
Steve Jobs once said: "The most powerful person is the storyteller." In light of Apple GPT, here is 1981 Steve Jobs with the best analogy of what AI will do to humans: (1) There was a research paper in Scientific American looking at the efficiency of locomotion for species to
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jul 23, 2023
🧠🤖 The future of brain-machine interfaces and AI? NEW patent by Apple published this week: EEG-integrated AirPods. Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a housing, and an electrode carrier attached to the housing and having a nonplanar surface. The wearable
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jul 14, 2023
.@elonmusk talked about xAI, his new AI company, on Twitter Spaces this afternoon. Here's everything you need to know:
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Oct 16, 2023
Peter Thiel on AI and jobs: "In a world without growth, everything becomes a zero-sum game." Takeaways: (1) Automation freed people to do other, more productive things. If we had enormous productivity gains and GDP growth, just about everybody would be better off. (2) The
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Oct 18, 2023
Andrej Karpathy is a legendary researcher who helped start OpenAI and created Stanford's first deep learning class. @karpathy's advice on how to learn AI: (1) 10,000 hours of deliberate practice will make you an expert. You can iterate as you work. Only compare yourself to the
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jul 11, 2023
👀 I used OpenAI's Code Interpreter to make Flappy Bird 🐦in 7 minutes: Code Interpreter/GPT-4 for code generation. Pre-existing or AI-generated assets for graphics. --- Here's how to make the game in only 6 steps: (1): Enter the following prompt: "write p5.js code for
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jul 16, 2023
I think about this a lot. @MrBeast mentored one YouTuber from 4.6M to 46M monthly views (24k -> 400k/month). The secret of how to 10x your views on content: Do less with higher quality. If your watch time increases by 10%, you get *exponentially* more views.
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jun 25, 2023
Steve Jobs said: "The most powerful person is the storyteller." And Brian Chesky (@bchesky), the co-founder and CEO at Airbnb, is one such storyteller. His thoughts on Airbnb's next phase of growth and AI's role: "I don't ask people what they want, I look at what they value
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Jun 10, 2023
"Your ability to keep doing interesting things is your willingness to be embarrassed."-Mark Zuckerberg on @lexfridman podcast. He is surprisingly more open-source than even OpenAI. Here are his top 3 predictions on AI (continued):
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Nov 2, 2023
Wild: GPT-3.5 leaked a random dude's photo in the output... Lesson: what you upload online will probably become training data.
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ChatGPT itself did not leak this image, as it was already on the internet as of the 7th of December 2016. It was uploaded to Imgur here: imgur.com/YFRoBdF (view on PC to see upload date)
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Alex Ker 🔭
@thealexker
Nov 12, 2023
👀 I built an AI NBA 🏀 commentator using OpenAI Vision API + TTS magic in 15min. Clip taken from when Damian Lillard ended PG's career with the game winner in 2019. Same pipeline can be applied for any highlights and buzzerbeaters.
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