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Yes, this contains spoilers, you have been warned.
I’m figuring, since the preview is already out on the NieR: Re[in] JP Twitter that I’m safe with posting this, but it might be taken down. I don’t know.
This won’t be much, just a quick look at the three new costumes being introduced in the FFXIV Online Crossover rerun (what a mouthful!).
In order of their introduction in the preview (the Japanese is translated by Google Translate, so it is what it is):
Phantasmal Boor (Samurai Yudil).
Element: Light(?)
A vulgar costumer in fantasy costume, Yudil.
Live in "Hinkashi no Ma", "Wait" to follow the Lord and come to the table.
When the unification of the whole country was taken, they opened the "swords", and before I knew it, they changed into those who gave up the peace of the beautiful shadow paper of snow, moon and flowers!
However, if you write the same thing, the tax to drink, something to use again.
As the number of true "body" decreases, put your hand on the handle with this individuality.
There were people waiting for the chicken of "Budo".
Phantasmal Witch (Black Mage Saryu)
Element: Fire
Witch of fantasy costume, Saryu.
People call the powerful user of "Black Electric Method" "Black Mage" and sing a different song.
However, the power that is too big will eventually invite people to line up...
If I could learn this lost way now, I would stand in front of you.
Burning it down with a fire of ab(s)out(le) heat is also a sound field.
Phantasmal Soldier (Red Mage Lars)
Element: Wind
A soldier in fantasy costume, Lars.
At the end of the fifth star calendar, in order to escape from the approaching water disaster "the sixth dew disaster", it is said that people led by the brightness of the stars gathered from people aiming for the mountains.
In order to resist the decree of destruction, former enemy comrades join hands and challenge the establishment of a new magic system that is neither black magic nor white magic.
In this way, a "red mage" who fights with a "thin sword (rapier)" in his hand was born.
What character(s) are you most looking forward to? Do you plan to pull? Just obtain one copy for the collection, or go all in for awakenings? Let me know your plans in the comments!

Part 1
"When we Firmas were pushed north into the Pyrimian mountain valley after the death of their chain of command, they settled down and instead of focusing on expansion focused on necessities like food. With co-operation from the first goblins and other creative minds that joined the First Wave of the migration, they managed to grow food over the summer in first-iteration greenhouses. "My parents were part of the first wave. They were old for a couple, but joined the Firma clan in founding a government and keeping the area safe, as well as spreading word. The dragonic gods didn't like their behavior at all; cities burning is more entertainment for them, so they were the first to be Forsaken in this era, publicly, in the main square of the old Dragonic Capital. "However, that backfired, with more and more dragons tired of running around and fighting all the time, they decided to settle down in a place where nobody would bother them; now that they had this place given to them, and the Second Wave started. Basically the entirety of the dragonic clans and several other species amassed in this wave, and the Sapient Unification Government held. "My parents had an egg in one of the more northern caves, right on the coast. Then, the third wave arrived and everything went downhill from there. "The Unification Wars were fought between those who wanted one government to cover this region, and those who wanted governments segregated by species. This would have been fine if the secessionists didn't step in on people's behalves, without their consent; it took fifteen years of war for the war to end. Millions died and some species like the Snow Fox beastpeople almost went extinct. My parent were part of the death wave. "The war evolved so rapidly it was impossible for a commander to last more than two months. It started with sticks and stones and within a month there were arrow volleys. A year saw guns, two tanks, three battleships, four planes. Bombs, bigger bullets, bigger guns, bigger bombs. "In the last few months of the war, the first nuclear devices were used, creating miniature stars on the land with immense destructive potential unleashed. It ended with mutually assured destruction protocols being activated, and when all was said and done the land was a snow-fallen irradiated dustball. "It took years for the survivors to pick up the remnants of our short-lived civilization and restart it into the Terra Firma Sapience Union. All the time, my egg didn't hatch because I had no incubator, but didn't die thanks to my ice type. It was located close enough to a mana vein where I just... absorbed the entire vein. When the cave was found by explorers following maps for my parents den, all they found was my egg glowing brighter than Sunstones. "I was taken to an incubation facility in Cellyia, one of the bigger cities. There I hatched, and after more than one test I grew. My growth was still... affected by the time without an incubator, so my already slow growth stopped after fifty years instead of continuing to infinity. And then I took some magic courses, did my best to drain my mana reserves, and settled down here, well away from... the bustle of Cellyia. It never quite felt like a home, you know. It was a good place to grow up, don't get me wrong, but I like it here better. Remote, and in the same place my parents met for the first time. As much as I can tell, anyway; a number of records were destroyed in the Unification War. "When your heroes continued to come up here, I would be the one on first guard. Damming a river, I used water magic to break it. Trying to destroy some transit infrastructure, I would be the first one to either fake it, finish it off, or lure them away. When your latest one decided to head for Cellyia, it was out of my range for such activities. I shadowed the party on the way and let others take care of it. "I never thought that your 'heroes' would be heartless enough to burn what they were told and even acknowledged as a hospital with patients inside. A library and museum with most of our pre-unification works inside. An orphanage, a school... an entire neighborhood of ten thousand citizens' homes. What for? To try to kill just one of us. "We... couldn't take that kind of behavior. Cellyia might have not been the best place for someone with my personality to grow up, especially without parental figures, but that orphanage still had some good memories. An all-citizens vote was called, an all-citizens vote was passed, and we started a counter-offensive military campaign into your Civilization Nations. We've been waiting for you elves, leaders of the Civilized Nations, to advance your society; it's been seven hundred years, all the most you've done is grow your population and add an extra floor to your townhomes. "So we're going to do it for you. You ran our patience down, so we're going to change your society for you. Is it a repeat of the Unification War? I don't think so, given that you Civilized Nations never rescinded the declaration of war against us 'monsters' over two thousand years ago; one that you still follow through on to this day. "But that isn't the end of my story. "When the gods forsook us, they tried to pry away our magic, our land, and our lives. So we defended. Space radars monitor their movements on the mortal plane. There's so many more technical details I can go into. All I can tell you is, at one point, the old god of Dragonic Princess-kidnapping; yes, they were a god; they came and asked us to restart worshiping them. "That went over as well as you'd expect, and the next thing that happened... was that I absorbed her mana and powers. Technically, I am an undefined god, and... at this point, I'm afraid to get a definition. "What if it's something I don't like? Something evil, immoral... something my parents, the leaders of the Second Wave, wouldn't be proud of? What if... what if it kills me? Everyone hates me? I'd no longer be free... "So my solution was to hide. Here, in a mountain cave in the middle of nowhere. This is my life, all of it... and I don't know where to go from here." ----- "So... you're a god?" I asked. I couldn't think of another question to ask. "Yes and no." The cat replied. It did nothing to satisfy my fearful curiosity. How could one both be and not be a god? "Princess-kidnapping was a... niche god, rarely prayed to by still enough to be, you know, and actual deity. So her mana ran out first, and most of it dissipated back into the environment yada yada yada, but like the sponge my mana reserves are, I sucked more of it up than I should have; enough to had just a slight touch of divine control. On par with a low-level demigod. If I was omnipresent, I'd solve me problems with a snap of my claws, and then I wouldn't be hiding from my problems here." "If your powers came from a god, how are yours undefined?" My mind was seeking knowledge now. I was a mage, after all, and this was more than just the opportunity of a lifetime; it was the opportunity of a aeon. "Because I absorbed her essence from the environment before it had the chance to fully dissipate, but still late enough where it was no longer hers." Vixie shrugged "Or something like that, mana gets weird sometimes. All that matters now is my stockpile is slowly increasing its grow rate, which gets annoying pretty fast." "Annoying?" The cat laughed again. "Do you think this is all of my baseline reserve? Half of the reason I stay away from the rest of society is because the last time someone with multiple aura got involved with politics..." She trailed off, and then let another, this time impeccably cast illusion fall. The air around her was burnt crisp with the power of several mandatory auras in her current small size. Twelve tails flicked behind her back, eleven of them made of energy. Floating specs of light, some smaller while others the size of ice crystals surrounded the air around her. The six orbs on her back were joined by six more, and were attached to a ring. Her head had two halos, and her entire body was engraved with glowing lines. If she before radiated power, now she was made of it. The lights on the cave's ceiling flickered as more and more of the illusion fell away. Geometric shapes orbiting her body, a platform made of mana at her feet, lightning whizzing between all sorts of objects. Finally, it was gone, and the cat that stared at me with big, sad, glowing blue eyes had told me her deepest secret. As soon as it had started, the illusion repaired itself, and before me was one cat, a halo, six orbs, two crystals, and two mana tails. I did the second most instinctive thing when it came to seeing a cat. I pulled her in for a hug. There was a quickly quieted hiss as she squirmed a bit in my grip, trying to get more comfortable, before letting herself get stroked by me. Several images flashed before my eyes, and a tear came out of mine. We had gone to war against the less lucky sapients on our world, and were now paying the price. It felt like hours, but then my stomach growled, reminding me I hadn't eaten in literal days. Vixie shot out of my grip and led the way down into the cave. I followed, and soon enough I was eating some salted crackers with dried meat and cheese while Vixie moved around between other caves. "What are you doing?" I asked her between bites. "Packing," She replied. "Why?" "It's time I got out of here and, to follow the phrase, touched some grass." ----- It took three days for the elf, whose name was Nick, to recover enough to be able to make the journey to Cellyia. In those three days, I realized just how - and why - the Civilized Races looked at us the way they did. For starters, I'd forgotten just how many things ran on electricity, let alone other, more complicated mechanics. Pressurized water, instant hot water, even sinks, showers, and toilets were all completely unknown to the 'civilized races.' Ah, yes. Civilized without toilet paper. Bitter ramblings about the people who set off the chain reaction of events that killed my family aside, those were the second longest three days of my life; the first was my thirteenth birthday so I could get a personal HUD and social media. I was also a mess of thoughts. The elf had shown me, over the course of the three days - aside from the two-minute get-my-life-together moment - that I couldn't hide from my problems forever, or they would team up and try to hunt me. Hence my new, reluctant guest from the overflowing hospital they had oh-so-nicely delivered to my door. I had words for the medical staff. And I was also a mess of thoughts. Did I mention that one already. In all seriousness, Nick adapted to electronics pretty well. All I had to do was explain what it was, what it did, and file it under the name of science. It took an impressive four minutes of rambling about quantum mechanics before Vick realized that he was in way over his head asking how the 'magic rock that can half-think with bottled lightning' worked. He backed out when I yanked a textbook from my knowledge hoard and flipped through the pages to the start to explain how quantum superposition affected the set of particles it was entangled to. Fun. Finding out what toothbrushes were took some convincing, but soon the elf's teeth started to recover from lack of proper dental care. Food was easier than I expected, and Vick was pretty accepting of whatever I tossed on his plate. Except for artichokes, for some reason he hated those. Over the three days we bonded, and Nick got pretty used to life in my home. On the second day I moved him to the guest bedroom I had built but never maintained, but one wave of my paw and a splurge of magic later that was solved. "Why don't you use magic more often?" Nick asked. I explained that was much as I wanted to burn my reserves like they were a forest before a forest fire, the mental strain was tough without learning proper casting, which requires one to drain their reserves to practice wielding physical willpower. That meant that I was caught in an infinite loop of negativity, so I could only get away with a couple spells a day before the mental exhaustion metaphorically turned my brain to mush. On the morning of the fourth day, we left. Honestly, Nick could have left on the first day but I wanted him to be able to have the stamina to walk around for hours on end with me in Cellyia. Either way, as long as he kept by me it would be fine. There was a small population of elves, humans, and dwarves who had come up to the TFSU for one reason or another and never left, which meant that he wouldn't be too far out of place. My plan, instead of just flying into the Cellyia while steering clear of the airport, was to make it to the closest town, Lymian, and take a train from there north to Union Station. It would dump us a bit further downtown than I liked, but Cellyia was built in levels, and I could take the footpath level to wherever I needed. All said and done and one passenger seat clipped to my saddlebag harness on my dragon form, I opened the door to my cave. And was promptly blocked by a wall of snow. "Right," I half-grumbled. I enjoyed tunneling through snow, but spray would make the entrance cave wet and that wouldn't dry for another couple days, and until it did the sound of drips would echo throughout my home like nothing else. Either way, checking one last time that Nick was secure, I prepared my wings and powered forward. The snow and ice parted for me, and then melted and fixed itself back together behind me as I power-swam through the snow the same way I would through water. After ten seconds of this, I burst up from the snow-covered mountain the snowstorm had left behind and started to change my heading for Lymian. It would take thirty minutes of flying to get there, as I was flying lower and slower than usual to take care of my passenger, but we soon enough turned the next mountain and saw the town. The elf gasped as he took in the sights, while I kept my eye out for more activity. It had been fortified as a military base due to the war, but not by much; the town was useless from a defensive standpoint anyway. I spotted the next train arriving from its winding track around the next mountain, which also meant that I was a bit early. The citizens of Lymian were used to my presence, as I usually stopped by to pick up supplies and occasionally a bit of correspondence. So when I landed on top of a several story tall snow pile, nobody cared. I let Nick out, and then transformed into my cat form and slid down the snow pile to start to jogging towards the train station. That's when I remembered that unlike me, elves without snowshoes do not float on snow. Oops. ----- The sights were more than pretty, more than beautiful... If the gods had rejected these people, they might have just as well done it out of jealousy. After I'd been dropped off on top of a snow mound, I immediately flattened myself on my stomach to not fall through. I'd been in more than enough snowstorms and snow mounds to know how it would go if I didn't. The cat climbed the hill below me, reappearing as naturally as the snow fell. "Sorry," Vixie apologized. "Here, let me..." I felt the snow melt around me and we descended down to the ground. Vixie glowed brightly, literally; Even using as little magic as reshaping some snow was threatening to cascade out of her form. We moved to the train station without incident, where the massive 'train cars' were loaded full of passengers and cargo and then taken off towards the big city. Apparently this was the same one the hero burned, but the 'rebuilding and recovery efforts we going well; no critical infrastructure had been severely damaged.' Either way, the ride there was uneventful. Stepping out into Union Station was different. It was like I had entered a busy capital marketplace or square, with everyone rushing in another direction to another place. I trailed after Vixie, where even the oddity of an elf in these mountains was outshone by just how many different races there were; beastkin and kobolds and orcs and undead all filled the streets in, well, peace. "The city is built in layers," Vixie explained. "So while yes, residential and office towers here in the capital were set alight, underground public transit, personal transit, and cargo and fluid transit was all untouched, so we were able to circle around the hero and put out the fires to be replaced with smoke generators, and a couple holograms snatched from a nearby cargo transport." I had no idea what any of that meant, only that the city also had extensive underground bits. The towers soared over everything, and lights covered every spare centimeter of the city. Vixie led me down market stalls, across plazas, through parks and through building lobbies. Eventually, the babble increased, something I didn't think was possible. "Welcome to the commercial district," Vixie said after she had pulled me into a corner away from the masses of people and crowds moving around. "We're right near the harbor, and when we get there I'm going to show you the lighthouse and explain the city a bit better." I almost lost track of Vixie as we continued to move through the throngs of people going about their daily lives. I saw a couple boarded up shops, but most of them were either undamaged or didn't care about the scorch marks on their shops. Jewelry boutiques and grocery stores lived in tandem with furniture stores and a massive slab of too-smooth-to-be-natural stone of a rock type I had never seen before. It was covered in signs depicting some kind of diagram. Right around the corner was the waterfront, with a massive promenade running alongside it. Snow-covered trees lined the walkways, and soon enough Vixie and I came out of the crowd near a large, tall abandoned - though no unmaintained - building. "Right then," Vixie explained and started climbing. "Here's the old lighthouse, it's perfect for seeing the city. They never officially decommissioned it, so it's still legal to climb and properly maintained, but they never use it either." "What was the large thing they were building?" I asked, clambering onto the next ladder. "That? Oh, that was the space elevator." Vixie replied. "The ground part has been completed for three years now, we're just waiting for the rest of the nanotubes to make it into orbit and then run a kevlar cord up, follow it down with the space-grade heavy-duty nanotube cord, and then that's that." "Space?..." I was confused. "When the gods said that they were higher than mortals, you took that both figuratively and literally; they live above you and in a higher dimension. In this case, space is where they live in terms of height, but not number of dimensions. We're working on interdimensional travel, and interuniversal too, but those aren't replicatable on any sort of large scale yet." Vixie shrugged. "Either way, it's not like I care." "But you have it?" I pressed. "Dimensional travel." "Yes." She replied. "Well," I let out a short laughed. "The Civilized Nations are screwed over." "That's putting it lightly," She climbed on top of the last platform and showed me the city against the setting sun, lit up brighter than the night sky and more lively than the earth. It was beautiful. I sat there and watched the city glow with a power not even the gods had, side by side with not a dragon or monster, but a friend. END. A/N: Rushed this last bit of the arc, but school is ramping up at the end of the year so it was either fast story or incomplete story, and I chose fast story. Happy pride month, everyone, and I hope to see more of you when I have more time.
Original Prompt: [WP] For as long as all the races have known, Dragons have been seen as violent, destructive creatures. After an attack on your village, you black out and find yourself in the den of a dragon. It's rather annoyed that that is how they're seen, and wants to prove that isn't the case.
u/Lycan_Jedi thank you for the prompt!
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I’m seriously considering spending next winter in Mexico in my Sprinter. I'm honestly more of a dedicated van traveller than a vanlifer, and I want nothing to do with plowing snow at home this year.
I’ve spent up to a month at a time in my van, but this will be more like 3-4 months. I have a macerating (claims to be “composting”, but that’s not true) toilet. The manufacturer recommends aspen chip pet litter, but carrying enough of that would take up substantial space, while coconut coir would not.
My problem is properly rehydrating coir. I tried it once, clearly used too much water as it was heavy and slightly thick, and later had a significant mold bloom in there due to the moisture. Also, it seems to take a large bucket or something to rehydrate in which, with space at a premium in a 144 Sprinter, seems to defeat the purpose of saving space by using coir.
Those of you with composting (actually macerating) toilets, what do you use in them? If coir, what’s your system for rehydrating?

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Unpacking the Light Police. Light Pollution News.
Show Link: https://lightpollutionnews.com/podcast/unpacking-the-light-police/
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Guests:
John Barentine of Dark Sky Consulting, LLC.
Kaitlyn Evans, Conservationist.
Show:
I was busted by the light police. They had a point, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post.
Dana Milbank purchased a home in, soon to be not, rural Virginia. At night he kept the formerly vacant property lit to the degree that spurned one commentator to call it “spaceship lighting.”
Milbank recaps being visited by the “light police,” a group of concerned citizens who help educate neighbors and instill a sense of pride in the brilliance of their starry night skies.
At first, he was taken aback, but later, not only did he appreciate their efforts, but he also converted his blinding always on, white light flood lights to warm 2700 Kelvin motion sensing lights.
Per Ruskin Hartley, executive director of the International Dark Sky Association, “for 4.5 billion years there was no artificial light at night. It’s really only in the last five human generations that we transformed that. It’s one of the most profound transformations of our environment.”
Many of you may recall an earlier story, way back in our Hormone of Darkness episode, showcasing concerns by local residents prior to a 760 house (now 761) plus town center development moving into the Culpepper County, VA area. Per the Rappahannock News, this development features “a resort style swimming pool, clubhouse, tot lot, and multiple sports fields and sports courts, all connected by a network of biking and walking trails.”
The forgotten medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’ by Zaria Gorvett of the BBC.
Gorvett opened my eyes to something I never knew about, the medieval custom of two sleeps. For those of you unaware, two sleeps are exactly what it sounds like.
Folks would partake in a communal nap, complete with rigid sleeping arrangement conventions, between 9 – 11pm, then awaken for a few hours to do everything from hang out to brew beer! In fact, the idea of multiple sleeps crossed cultures and was found in places as far from Europe as indigenous South America.
How can one’s circadian rhythm make sense of all of this?!
Well, for starters, until the invention of the alarm clock, which humorously was invented by a clocks salesman so he could wake up and sell more clocks, people had no firm way to wake up at a consistent time. The industrial revolution enforced a new circadian standard.
And there’s some science behind this! In the 1992 study, In Short Photoperiods, human sleep is biphasic, researcher Thomas Wehr found that after four weeks of 10 hour days, his subjects began to engage in this two sleep cycle, involving a one to three hour period for which they became awake and engaged in between.
Want to Learn About Light Pollution? There’s a mini-course for that!, Jennifer Sensiba of Clean Technica.
Quoting Sensiba, “As I got older, I traveled a lot more and saw the problem more for what it is. Not only did I see that in many places there is no refuge from it, but I also saw that it was slowly growing worse. Places that had been dark 30 years ago had more and more light creeping upon the horizon.”
If you’re interested in learning more, or more importantly, know someone who might benefit from learning more, Sensiba links up to an International Dark Sky Mini-Course on light pollution, call it Light Pollution 101!
There’s a Play Date at the National Museum of Natural History: Lights Out exhibit!
But unfortunately, by the time you listen to this, and hell, by the time we talk about this, it has passed.
Ann Arbor named best place for sunrises, sunsets in Michigan. Sarah Parlette for Click on Detroit.
Evidently gambling websites have decided to honor April’s International Dark Sky week in a strange new content marketing campaign, which was to rank the best places in each state to see sunrises and sunsets. My favorite one, “Ann Arbor named best place for sunrises, sunsets in Michigan,” comes from Click on Detroit, whereby a quote “study” examined Michigan’s most populated cities.”
According to Click on Detroit, “to celebrate International Astrology Day on Saturday, staff at Great Lake Stakes, a Michigan online gambling news site, looked at light pollution in the five most populated cities around the Mitten state to determine which offers the best views every morning and evening.”
Star bathing is the new outdoor travel trend we should all be trying for Summer 2023, according to Amy Beecham at Stylist.
Evidently, as an attempt to destress and promote mindfulness, romanticism about sleeping under the stars has birthed a 70% increase in searches for the term ‘star bathing’ on Hipcamp. And to be sure, “Hipcamp recommends checking a stargazing calendar which outlines major astrological events – like supermoons, pink moons, and star showers.”
“Industry Must Face an Inconvenient Truth — Most LED Lights at Night are Unhealthy”
Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a circadian clock expert, recently published an article in LEDs Magazine chastising the lighting industry for not recognizing and reigning in the negative externalities of its products. Per the piece, such effects are, obesity, diabetes, depression, cancer, and more.
He cites three categories of industry responses, making the correlation that long term Denial or outright Ignorance of the Facts, may result in “asbestos-scale liabilities or draconian regulations.”
Per the piece, a recent survey by the Circadian Light Research Center of 2,697 peer reviewed scientific articles confirmed that human circadian clocks are highly sensitive to blue wavelengths, and that exposure to such wavelengths leads to major health disorders.
Moore-Ede calls for the industry to harvest the “commercial opportunity” to greatly limit future liability by creating and managing its own standards for circadian modulated lighting.
Unpacking the Wallpack, by Dan Weissman in LD+A Magazine.
Weissman, who recently purchased a telescope for his family in Cambridge, MA, discovered that the scope could only afford him views of some solar system objects and a few brightly burning stars.
The ire of Weissman’s pen takes the shape of a rectangular fixtures, be it box like or simply a panel these days, that typically hang off the side of an exterior wall or above an exterior door. “Devoid of aesthetic value” this light is often put up under the “pretense of security and safety” by “recommended practices and adopted municipal codes.”
Weissman recognizes labels that often accompany, what he calls, “Glare bombs,” including “contractor-select,” “energy efficient,” or “light pollution friendly.”
Further, per an earlier LD+A article, such lighting driven by its extreme contrasts is exceedingly common in minority communities where light is weaponized as a tool of power. It becomes a “device of alienation, creating a zone of control and separation.”
Weissman recognizes that the true reason such fixtures are selected often comes down to cost. He recognizes that it may take equally as much cost to persuade building and homeowners away from such lighting into the realm of more responsible, lower lumen, shielded lighting.
Weissman calls for producers of these glare bombs to be labeled as polluters, putting them in line with fossil fuel manufacturers and PFAS makers.
Songbirds, dusk and clear skies: Scientists explore migratory flights, by Erin Blakemore.
Bird migration season is ending here in the Mid-Atlantic. I was lucky enough to catch several Baltimore Orioles and Indigo Buntings last week. Researchers looked at 400 songbirds from 9 major species, “including the yellow-rump warbler, American redstart and Bicknell’s thrush.”
The question they hoped to answer was how are these birds so darn precise in identifying the best time to take off for their nightly migration? Scientists found that 90% of the migrating birds in the study took off within 69 minutes of dusk. A “much narrower takeoff window,” that even shocked the research team!
Per the study, taking off at night is all about maximum flight time. In addition to being able to precisely schedule their take offs, a feat that every airline I’ve flown with over the past few years has proven inept at, birds also are apparently good meteorologists! They often depart when the atmospheric pressure rises over a day’s span. Other factors also trigger migration, including sex, age, and celestial cues.
‘Lights Out’ initiative appears to be saving birds from crashing into Philly buildings by Sophia Schmidt.
Preliminary results indicate that bird death counts are down 70% at one Market Street tower, since it began its participation in Lights Out. As we spoke about on a previous show, birds utilize the stars to navigate, but city lights can disorient the birds. Combine the lights with reflective or transparent glass, and that spells fatal trouble for our migrating warblers!
Per Keith Russell, a program manager for urban conservation with Audubon Mid-Atlantic, “We’ve lost almost a third of our birds – and [collisions] contributing to that. If we’re going to want to preserve the bird populations here in North America, we have to look at these types of problems. And this is a preventable one.”
The Knoxville, TN Zoo is offering up what they call “Twilight Tours” per WVLT 8. Each event will feature a guide to showcase nocturnal critters.
I did something similar in Singapore years ago. The zoo had very dim lights in the exhibits – and they kept those lights dim as you walked so that you didn’t lose your night vision. It was a very different and, might I say, peaceful experience than the typically chaotic daytime zoo.
Flashlights posing major threat to nesting sea turtles. Fox35 Orlando
Apparently, a single flashlight can deter female sea turtles from coming onto a beach and nesting. Florida, as I did not know, is home to 90% of the sea turtle nests across the world, so losing sea turtles can affect the global ecosystem.
One visitor to Cocoa Beach stated, “Just leave them alone. Stand back and look. You don’t need a flashlight.”
Another, “It’s not super surprising because more buildings go up, more technology. As it increases, nature and stuff like that decreases,” said Zoe Jovaag, whose grandfather used to take her on walks to see sea turtles.
Capture the Dark 2023 officially is under way!
The International Dark Sky Association opens up its annual photo contest complete with prizes across eight categories and an additional People’s Choice category. Voting begins on July 3rd, entries must be received by June 30th.
City Tests Traffic Light That Only Turns Green for Drivers Who Obey the Speed Limit. Erin Marquis for Jalopnik.
And hey, you better not speed in Brossard, Quebec….otherwise you may be waiting around for a while. Brossard is testing out a new traffic light that will stay red until it senses oncoming traffic. However, it will only change to green if the car is going the speed limit. Per the Jalopnik article, “FRED [the French acronym for “educational traffic calming light] forces fast drivers to stop and gives them a chance to reconsider their life choices.” Such lights are already used in Europe, but this will be the first for the Great White North.
Why the Greatest Threat to Star-Gazing Isn’t Light Pollution, and this comes to us from Dorin Elin Urrutia at Inverse.
Elin Urrutia writes, in her compelling piece, that the greatest threat to star-gazing is actually the weather. Citing notable examples of the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia (which burnt down due to bushfires) and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico (which sustained structural damage following the winds of Hurricane Maria).
While the threat of human-caused climate change has presented new challenges, Elin Urrutia references proactive burns that saved Los Angeles’ Mount Wilson Observatory from flames in 2020.
On a similar note, ABC News (the Australian Broadcasting Company, not to be confused with the American Broadcasting Company), brings us “A World Without Darkness Could Be a Reality within a Few Years.”
Per Carol Redford of Astrotourism Western Australia, “There are some people in the world now who don’t actually experience darkness anymore. They’re in a city like Beijing, Toyoko, or London. In all those big cities, it’s never dark, it’s always light. During the day of course with the sun, but then during the night with all of the artificial light. They’re not experiencing darkness, and definitely not seeing those beautiful stars…”
In the 66 years since the implementation of the UN Convention on the Peaceful Use of Outerspace, around 11,000 satellites orbit the Earth. But it’s about to get wayyy busier. Driven by innovations that have led to dramatic reductions in costs, over the next ten years, Per attorney Steven Freeland, it’s anticipated that somewhere between 100,000 to 500,000 objects will be sent up. Let me pause on that for a second.
On the travel front, we stay in the land down under, “Aussie region determined to keep its darkness is a stargazer’s dream” by Chantelle Francis of News.com.AU.
The town of Swam Reach, population 270, resides in a 3200sq km region of Southern Australia that received its International Dark Sky Reserve status over three years ago. On a scale of darkness between 0 – 22, the River Murray Dark Sky Reserve at Swam Reach, measures in at a whopping 21.9!
Tourism has become a growing business. The reserve hosts numerous telescope pads and offers tours of the night sky. There’s hope that an observatory and/or planetarium may also arrive in due course.
Best smart lights for outdoors in 2023, Brittney Vincent of CBS Essentials.
Oh there’s a lot not to love here, but it does fall in line with last month’s ‘Lumens are Coming’ article.
For those of you who feel the need to light your trees, because for some reason they need light at night I guess…I’ll try and pretend it’s not solely for ostentatious and narcissistic reasons. By the way, does anyone remember when those were negative characteristics?
The article features spotlights that can be programmed to over 16 MILLION colors including…lucky for us, ALL shades of white….which you can also do for a 500 lumen flood light set.
And hey, Ring now has solar path lighting. Don’t worry though, the fixtures themselves put out up to 80 lumens of sideways light.
You know, it’s astounding when you look at some of these pictures. The amount of redundant lighting. It honestly makes no sense to me. You have a porch light, which lights up the path. Path lighting, which lights up the path. And, in the one picture, god awful frontward facing flood lights, which also light up the path. How bright do you need these paths!? I digress. But the lumens are indeed coming.
LDS Church will get to light up its Heber Valley Temple after all, but the faith didn’t get everything it wanted, Blake Apgar of the Salt Lake Tribune.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fought hard to rid itself of any nighttime lighting responsibility by pressuring Wasatch County, Utah officials to approve new lighting rules that would enable the church to light a proposed new temple the same way it does for every other temple.
The Church received permission to uplight the temple, enabling an exception to be made in Wasatch’s rather stringent nighttime lighting rulebook. However, the temple will be restricted by the level of lumens it can use, and it must have exterior lighting turned off an hour after sunset or an hour after normal business hours.
Smart Street Lights Market is Expected to Hit USD 14,751.1 million at a 23.4% CAGR by 2030, Market Research Future Press Release
The pandemic is officially over, smart street lighting is about to boom. Combine the rush to LED fixtures with the Internet of Things, and expect to see street lights moonlighting as traffic and parking monitors, air quality meters, and more. Not to mention, “it is anticipated that camera-connected smart street lighting will increase road safety by lowering the likelihood of accidents and criminality.”
Texas now has 7 dark sky communities for spectacular star gazing, Sana Ameer, MRT.
Let’s cheer on the city of Bee Cave, everyone! Bee Cave joins a growing list of dark sky places already in the Lone Star State, including 2 Dark Sky Sanctuaries, 5 Dark Sky Parks, and 1 Dark Sky Reserve. Nighttime is alive and well in some parts of Texas!
Our Afraid of the Dark article is a bit scary! Hilton Head’s dark roads and pedestrians are deadly combo. What the town is doing about it, Blake Douglas at The Island Packet.
Per the article, 9 pedestrian and cyclist fatalities occurred since 2018, with five occurring after dark. Prior to that period, there were 28 recorded deaths from 2000 – 2016, with 20 of them taking place after dark.
In 2018, an 11 year old resident was struck and killed while walking her dog across an intersection one night. Lighting advocates began taking shape in what otherwise is a very conservation focused island. Hilton Head, SC has a limited number of street lights, priding itself on “avoiding light pollution and blending nature with construction.”
Lighting advocates appear to be, at the very least, asking for flashing crosswalk lights on the island to indicate when an individual is crossing.
It should be noted that the article shows a chart of 9 after-dark-deaths since 2014, only two of them occurred at crosswalks. In fact, during the same time frame, 6 additional deaths occurred at crosswalks during the daytime.
As a whole, the National Safety Council reports that 74.5% of pedestrian deaths occurred at night, whereby 39.1% took place in lit areas and 35.38% took place in unlit areas.
Bryan Bloch, an auto safety expert, surmises that car companies bear some of the blame – producing cheap or ineffectual headlight fixtures, and drivers themselves, who don’t realize that they need to regularly clean their headlight lenses.
Despite opposition from residents, it appears that Hilton Head will be receiving lights at two new intersections and possibly more depending on engineering studies currently in progress.
Is lighting the key variable here? Is more light going to solve pedestrian deaths?
Our featured research article of the month comes to us from Animal Conservation, “Manipulating spectra of artificial light affects movement patterns of bats along ecological corridors.”
Bats are already known to have a wide range of responses to artificial light at night (also known as ALAN). Fast flying species tend to be more opportunistic in the presence of ALAN while slower ones tend to be more light averse. We know that “long wavelengths and reduced intensity” can minimize their environmental effects on bats. It’s not unheard of for bats to travel upwards of “tens of km per night.” Furthermore, bats are very dependent on the landscape and the structures within those landscapes.
Despite the nuances between species, the consensus is that ALAN, especially high intensity ALAN, negatively affects bats. This study attempted to answer what exactly bats do when they encounter ALAN – how do they react depending on different types of ALAN.
The study used three different light fixtures – one green, one red, and one white. The control was devoid of light fixtures. The researchers attempted to ascertain the behavior of bats as they encountered lights adjacent to woody areas. The researchers looked at three different bat groupings based on their foraging-echo location behavior, that being one of open field foraging, forest edge foraging, and narrow space – or more aptly forest foragers.
Researchers found that open and edge foraging bats increased their activity close to white and green lights, and to a lesser extent red lights. However, narrow space bats were more likely to veer away from all colors of lighting. Edge foragers were also less likely to cross a white light.
The positive effects of white and green light on open and edge foraging bats appear to be attributed to the accumulation of insects around light sources containing more blue light.
The nighttime sky over Oahu will be lit up with green lasers in the coming days. Here’s why. Hawaii News Now
Before we close up today, do you live in Hawaii? I know I wish I did!
If so, do you recall seeing green lasers streak across the night sky? Well, the Army Corps of Engineers was using lidar at night to complete a coastal mapping survey.
Why did they survey at night? Specifically, why did they do this between midnight to 5am? Simply b/c the airspace is so busy, that time was the only chance they had to complete the survey. The remaining survey was completed during daytime hours.

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• 9 HD MA
• About Time HD MA
• American Pie (Theatrical) HD MA
• American Pie (Unrated) HD MA
• The Boy Next Door HD MA
• Definitely, Maybe HD MA
• Eastern Promises HD MA
• Empire HD MA
• Fifty Shades Darker (Theatrical) 4K MA
• Fifty Shades Darker (Unrated) 4K MA
• The Great Wall 4K MA
• Jarhead 2: Field Of Fire (Rated) HD MA
• Jarhead 2: Field Of Fire (Unrated) HD MA
• Josie And The Pussycats HD MA
• Reservation Road HD MA

4Ks

• 47 Ronin (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6
• Ad Astra (MA VUDU) - $6
• Aladdin (2019) (iTunes, no DMI) - $4.75
• Aladdin (2019) (VUDU MA, with DMI ) - $6.75
• Ambulance (MA VUDU) - $5.75
• Angry Birds Movie, The (MA VUDU) - $4.75
• Assassin's Creed (4K iTunes, ports to MA) - $4.75
• Avengers: Infinity War (iTunes, no DMI) - $4.75
• Avengers: Infinity War (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $6.75
• Battleship (MA iTunes) - $6
• Braveheart (VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• Bridge on the River Kwai, The (MA VUDU) - $5.50
• Bumblebee (iTunes) - $4.75
• Call Of The Wild, The (2020) (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $5.50
• Casablanca (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Clockwork Orange, A (MA VUDU) - $4.75
• Coming to America (Slip Says "Valid in Canada Only") (iTunes VUDU) - $5
• Crank (VUDU) - $4.75
• Dirty Dancing (VUDU) - $5.50
• Die Hard (1988) (MA) - $6.50
• Deepwater Horizon (VUDU) - $4.75
• Despicable Me (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Despicable Me 3 (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Ender's Game (VUDU) - $4.75
• Everest (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6
• Evil Dead 2 (VUDU) - $4.75
• Ford v Ferrari (2019) (4K VUDU/MA HD GP) - $6.50
• Gemini Man (VUDU) - $4.75
• Great Wall, The (MA VUDU or iTunes) - $6
• Green Book (MA VUDU) - $6
• Green Knight, The (VUDU) - $5.50
• Groundhog Day (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• The Godfather (VUDU iTunes) - $7
• The Godfather Part II (VUDU iTunes) - $7
• The Godfather CODA (VUDU iTunes) - $7
• Heat (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Hunter Killer (4K VUDU/iTunes HD GP) - $4.75
• Huntsman, The: Winter's War Extended Edition (iTunes) - $4.75
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Jigsaw (4K VUDU/iTunes HD GP) - $4.75
• Last Action Hero (1993) (VUDU MA) - $6.50
• Lion King, The (2019) (iTunes, no DMI) - $4.75
• Lion King, The (2019) (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $6.75
• Live Die Repeat Edge of Tomorrow (MA VUDU) - $4.75
• Lone Survivor (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Maleficent 1 (2014) (iTunes, no DMI) - $4.75
• Maleficent 1 (2014) (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $6.75
• Mary Poppins Returns (2018) (iTunes, no DMI) - $5.50
• Mary Poppins Returns (2018) (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $7.50
• Mary Queen of Scots (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Men in Black 1 (MA) - $6.50
• Men in Black 2 (MA) - $6.50
• Men in Black 3 (MA) - $6.50
• Midway (4K VUDU/iTunes HD GP) - $4.75
• Minions (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6
• Mission: Impossible (5) - Rogue Nation (VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• Mission: Impossible (6) - Fallout (VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• Mummy, The (2017) (MA VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• My Fair Lady (1964) (VUDU iTunes) - $7
• Now You See Me 2 (VUDU) - $4.75
• Oblivion (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Poltergeist (1982) (MA VUDU) - $5.50
• Pulp Fiction (VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Quiet Place 1, A (VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (iTunes, no DMI) - $4.75
• Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $6.75
• Rambo: First Blood (VUDU) - $5.50
• Rambo III (VUDU) - $5.50
• Reservoir Dogs (VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Robin Hood (4K VUDU HD GP) - $4.75
• Saban's Power Rangers (4K VUDU/iTunes HD GP) - $4.75
• Saving Private Ryan (VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Saw (VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• Secret Life of Pets, The (2016) (VUDU) - $5.50
• Serenity (2005) (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Sicario (VUDU) - $4.75
• Singin' in the Rain (1952) (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Skyscraper (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Snow White and the Huntsman: Extended Edition (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6.25
• Smokin’ Aces (MA VUDU iTunes) - $5.50
• Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (VUDU iTunes) - $5.50
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (iTunes, no DMI) - $4.75
• Solo: A Star Wars Story (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $6.75
• Sonic 2 (VUDU iTunes) - $5.50
• Source Code (VUDU) - $4.75
• Space Jam (1996) (MA) - $5.50
• Speed (1994) (4K VUDU/MA HD GP) - $6.50
• Spider-Man 3 (2007) (MA VUDU) - $5.75
• Spider-Man Homecoming (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Spider-Man No Way Home (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Split (MA VUDU) - $5.75
• Starship Troopers (MA VUDU) - $6.50
• Terminator: Dark Fate (iTunes) - $4.75
• Toy Story 3 (iTunes, no DMI) - $5.50
• Toy Story 3 (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $7.50
• Toy Story 4 (iTunes, no DMI) - $5.50
• Toy Story 4 (VUDU MA, with DMI) - $7.50
• Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) (VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) (VUDU iTunes) - $4.75
• Turning Red (MA VUDU) with DMI - $6.75
• Unbreakable (MA VUDU) with DMI - $6.50
• The Untouchables (VUDU iTunes) - $6.75
• Van Helsing (MA VUDU iTunes) - $6.50
• Warcraft (2016) (MA VUDU iTunes) - $5.50
• Widows (MA VUDU) - $5.50
• Wolf of Wall Street, The (VUDU iTunes) - $6.50

4K Sets

• Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Vol 2 (MA): Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, The Trouble with Harry, Marnie, Family Plot - $34
• Expendables 1-3, The (VUDU) - $19
• The Hitman's Bodyguard / The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard 2 Film (VUDU) - $11
• John Wick Chapters 1-3 (VUDU) - $17
• Predator 4-Film Collection (Predator, Predator 2, Predators, The Predator) (MA VUDU) - $23

200 DMI $2 Each

• Lion King (1994)

Accepting PayPal F&F/Venmo/cashapp, open to bundle offers
Codes are from 4K discs for my personal collection, some codes are split, not accepting VUDU/Fandango credits, thanks for looking!

So I totalled my car a few months ago and am now driving a beater which I’m not sure is going to last too long.
I’ve been looking at the used car market and it seems to be almost as expensive to get a decent used car vs a new one. The car I’m looking at is a Corolla cross AWD(live in the mountains and snow isn’t plowed very well here).
I’m able to put down $10k and my monthly payments over 60 months would be around $450. But add in $250 for insurance(my rate went up because of the accident)and another $250 for gas, that puts me at $950 just for transportation.
Now, my monthly income is about $4800. Rent is about $1200, groceries about $450, another $200ish for utilities and internet, gym($60), dog expenses($60), and cellphone(>$70).
That, in theory, leaves me with ~$1800 left over for fun and savings. That said, I still would still have a $30k emergency fund left after the car down payment.
Sooo personal finance reddit, would this be a dumb move?

Recently I translated song of a local artist Aliona Shvets Neliubovy into toki pona, and I am going to make a cover of that song the lengths match up, but what do you think about the lyrics
oko lape、telo Pai li wawa li pini pi ma Sepi。insa lon kiwen laso mute anu laso oko、 anu seme？
sina len pimeja。 mun anu mu：sona ala。ale li wile pana ilo、taso pakala la mi awen pali。
olin ala、 utala。pilin sina li lete、kon sewi pi ma Lоsija li pilin seli mute。sina anu e moli la o jo e mi tan ko lete。luka mi li lete、kon pi ma Losija li seli。pilin sina lete、kon pi ma Losija li seli
sina musi uta suno。kalama suno li anpa。seli wan la kon jelo li pakala jaki en jaki li awen。
lete tu la mi len soweli、nasa、mi lape ala。ma Losija la moli lon li kama tan jo kulupu musi
olin ala、 utala。pilin sina li lete、kon sewi pi ma Lоsija li pilin seli mute。sina anu e moli la o jo e mi tan ko lete。luka mi li lete、 lete。ni li olin ala。
olin ala、 utala。pilin sina li lete、kon sewi pi ma Lоsija。。。
english translation:
Eyes more calm than Baikal, symbol of sunset somewhere in Siberia. Inside of you are lots of emeralds or tears at least.
Wearing black, are you the night or badperson*, i don’t know. Everyone wants to help me, but until I fall, i am flying.
We didn’t have love, we had violence. Your feelings are colder than the weather in Russia. You decided to shoot first, then carry me on the snow. My arms are colder than the weather in Russia. Your feelings are colder than the weather in Russia.
Your laughter is á bouquet of sunflowers (in original language its name literally under sun, then there is a word play). Under sun, it’s easier to laugh. June, and goldish light is burning down into ashes, and only ashes are left.
Winter, and I am wearing a beautiful coat, i’m shaking, can’t sleep at night. The death settled in Russia, it comes guest to party.
We didn’t have love, we had violence. Your feelings are colder than the weather in Russia. You decided to shoot first, then carry me on the snow. My arms are colder, colder. It wasn’t love etc.

Please let me know if you're interested in bundle deals, willing to work price down for multiples. Cash App/Venmo/Paypal (No FF unfortunately) accepted! Price firm for single codes
Prices and format are listed in the post and can be hard to view if you are viewing from the mobile app, please scroll over to view them
My Universal Rewards movies available at $3 a piece or 2 for $5, please check here for the available movies, this changes monthly.

Name	Price	Format	Redemption Site
1917	$3	HD	MA
3:10 to Yuma	$5	4K	Vudu
31	$3	HD
The 355	$4	HD	MA
A24 Horror 5 Film Collection (Hereditary/ X/ The Witch/ Green Room/ It Comes At Night)	$15	HD	Vudu
Addams Family 2	$3	HD	iTunes
Aladdin (2019)	$5	4K	MA
Aladdin (1992)	$4	HD	MA
Alien	$3	HD	MA
Aliens	$3	HD	MA
Alien 3	$3	HD	MA
Alien: Covenant	$3	HD	MA
Prometheus (Alien)	$3	HD	MA
Amsterdam	$6	HD	MA
Anchorman 2	$3	HD	MA
Ant Man Quantumania	$9	HD	MA
Apocalypse Now	$3	HD
Aqua Teen Forever Plantasm	$5	HD	MA
Avengers Age of Ultron	$3	HD	MA
Avengers Infinity War	$3	HD	MA
Avengers Endgame	$6	4K	MA
Back to the Future Trilogy	$9	HD	MA
Bad Boys	$3	HD	MA
Bad Boys for Life	$3	HD	MA
Bad Grandpa	$3	HD
Banshees of Inisherin	$6	HD	MA
The Batman	$4	HD	MA
Batman and Superman Battle of the Super Sons	$4	HD	MA
Beast	$5	HD	MA
Belly	$5	4K	Vudu
Black Adam	$5	HD	MA
Black Panther Wakanda Forever	$7	4K	MA
Black Panther Wakanda Forever	$5	HD	MA
Blacklight	$5	HD
Blues Brothers	$5	4K	MA
Bob's Burgers Movie	$4	HD	MA
Bohemian Rhapsody	$6	4K	MA
Boss Baby	$3	HD	MA
Boss Baby 2 Pack	$6	HD	MA
Boss Baby Family Business	$5	4k	MA
Bullet Train	$4	HD	MA
Casablanca	$5	4K	MA
Call Jane	$4	HD	MA
Captain Marvel	$3	HD	MA
Captain Marvel	$5	4K	MA
Cars 3	$5	4K
Clerks 3	$5	HD
A Clockwork Orange	$5	4K	MA
Coco	$4	HD
The Commuter	$4	HD
Creed 3	$9	HD	Vudu
Cruella	$5	4K
Cruella	$4	HD
Daddy's Home 2	$3	HD
Day After Tomorrow	$3	HD	MA
DC League of Superpets	$4	HD
Deadpool	$3	HD
Deadpool 2	$3	HD
The Dentist (1996) & The Dentist 2 Brace Yourself (1998)	$6	HD
Devotion	$5	HD	MA
Die Hard With A Vengeance	$3	HD	MA
A Good Day to Die Hard	$3	HD	MA
Divergent	$3	HD
Doctor Strange	$3	HD	MA
Doctor Strange Multiverse Of Madness	$6	4K	MA
Doctor Strange Multiverse Of Madness	$4	HD	MA
Dolittle	$3	HD	MA
Downtown Abbey A New Era	$4	HD	MA
Dreamwork 10 Movie Collection	$20	HD	MA
Dumbo (2019)	$5	4K	MA
80 for Brady	$7	HD	iTunes/Vudu
Elvis	$4	HD	MA
Empire of Light	$5	HD
The Fabelmans	$6	HD	MA
Fast & Furious 8 Film Collection	$15	HD	MA
Fast and the Furious	$5	4K	MA
Fate of the Furious	$3	HD	MA
Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy	$6	HD	MA
Flashdance	$5	4K	Vudu
The Forever Purge	$6	4K	MA
Free Guy	$4	HD	MA
Friday the 13th (1980)	$4	HD
Frozen	$3	HD	MA
Frozen II	$3	HD	MA
Game of Thrones House of the Dragon Season 1	$6	HD	Vudu
Gentlemen	$3	HD	iTunes
Ghosts Season 1	$6	HD
Ghostbusters	$3	HD
Ghostbusters II	$3	HD
Ghostbusters Afterlife	$4	HD
The Good Dinosaur	$4	HD
Guardians of the Galaxy	$3	HD	MA
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2	$3	HD	MA
Halloween (2018)	$4	HD	MA
Halloween Kills	$4	HD	MA
Halloween Ends	$5	HD	MA
Hitman's Bodyguard	$3	HD	MA
Hitman's Wife Bodyguard	$3	HD	MA
Hunger Games 4 Movie Collection	$10	HD	MA
Incredibles 2	$3	HD	MA
Independence Day Resurgence	$3	HD	MA
Jesus Revolution	$5	HD	iTunes/Vudu
John Wick 1 & 2 Combo Pack	$5	HD	MA
John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum	$3	HD	MA
Jumanji 2 Pack (2017/2019)	$6	HD	MA
Jumanji Trilogy (1995-2019)	$4	SD	MA
Jungle Cruise	$5	4K	MA
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom	$4	4K	MA
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom	$3	HD	MA
Jurassic World 6 Movie Collection	$12	HD	MA
Justice League x RWBY Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One	$8	4K	MA
Justice League x RWBY Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One	$6	HD	MA
Justice Society World War II	$4	4K	MA
The Kid (2019)	$4	HD	iTunes/Vudu
Kin	$5	4K
Knock at the Cabin	$8	HD	MA
Knives Out	$3	HD	MA
Legion of Super Heroes	$5	HD	MA
Leon the Professional	$3	HD	MA
Lightyear	$6	4K	MA
Lion King (2019)	$5	4K	MA
Lion King (2019)	$3	HD	MA
Lion King (1994)	$3	HD	MA
The Little Mermaid	$3	HD	MA
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow	$3	HD
The Lost City	$4	HD
The Lost City	$6	4K
Luca	$5	4K
Mad Max	$6	4K	Vudu
Mad Max 2/ Mad Max 3/ Mad Max Fury Road	$15	4K	MA
Magic Mike Last Dance	$7	HD	MA
Mary Queen of Scots	$5	4K	MA
Man on the Moon	$4	HD
Matrix Resurrections	$6	4K	MA
Memory	$4	HD	MA
Men	$5	HD
Minions The Rise of Gru	$4	HD	MA
Minions 2 Movie Collection	$6	HD	MA
Miss You Already	$3	HD	Vudu
Morbius	$3	HD
Mulan	$3	HD
Mulan 2	$3	HD
Mulan (2020)	$5	4K
Mummy	$3	HD
Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor	$3	HD
News of the World	$3	HD	MA
007 No Time to Die (iTunes only)	$5	4K	iTunes
NOPE	$5	HD	MA
The Northman	$4	HD
The Old Way	$6	HD
Onward	$6	4K	MA
Operation Fortune Ruse De Guerre	$8	4K	Vudu
Pitch Perfect	$3	HD	MA
Pitch Perfect 2	$3	HD	MA
The Pirate Fairy	$3	HD	MA
Plane	$8	4K	Vudu/iTunes
Plane	$6	HD	Vudu/iTunes
Dawn for the Planet of the Apes	$3	HD	MA
Rise of the Planet of the Apes	$3	HD	MA
War for the Planet of the Apes	$3	HD	MA
Pocahontas 2	$3	HD	MA
Predator 4-Pack	$12	HD	MA
Prey for the Devil	$5	HD	MA
Queen and Slim	$4	HD	MA
A Quiet Place	$3	HD
Rambo 5 Film Collection	$15	HD
Raya and the Last Dragon	$6	4K	MA
Raya and the Last Dragon	$4	HD	MA
Reservoir Dogs	$6	4K	iTunes/Vudu
Rock Dog 3 Battle the Beat	$2	HD
Rocky 4 Film Collection	$20	4K	MA
Ron Gone Wrong	$4	HD
Scream (1996)	$6	4K	iTunes/Vudu
Scream (1996)	$3	HD	iTunes/Vudu
Scream (2022)	$4	HD	iTunes/Vudu
The Scorpion King	$3	HD	MA
Secret Headquarters	$4	HD	iTunes/Vudu
Secret Life of Pets	$3	HD	MA
Shazam Fury of the Gods	$8	HD	MA
Shivers	$4	HD	Vudu
Silent Night, Deadly Night Collection	$10	HD
Smile	$7	4K	iTunes/Vudu
Smile	$5	HD	iTunes/Vudu
Sonic the Hedgehog	$4	HD	iTunes/Vudu
Sonic the Hedgehog 2	$6	4K	iTunes/Vudu
Sonic the Hedgehog 2	$4	HD	iTunes/Vudu
Soul	$6	4K	MA
Snake Eyes GI Joe Origins	$6	4K
Snow White & The Huntsman	$4	4K
Space Jam A New Legacy	$4	4K	MA
Spider-Man	$3	HD	MA
Spider-Man 2	$3	HD	MA
Spider-Man 3	$3	HD	MA
Amazing Spider-Man	$3	HD	MA
Amazing Spider-Man 2	$3	HD	MA
Spider-Man Homecoming	$4	HD	MA
Spider-Man Far From Home	$4	HD	MA
Spirit Untamed	$4	HD	MA
Spider-Man No Way Home	$4	HD	MA
Star Trek Into Darkness	$3	HD
Star Trek Beyond	$3	HD
Star Trek The Motion Picture	$6	4K
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan	$6	4K
Star Trek III The Search For Spock	$6	4K
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home	$6	4K
Star Wars The Last Jedi	$4	4K	MA
Strange World	$4	HD	MA
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)	$3	HD
Thor Ragnarok	$3	HD	MA
Thor Love and Thunder	$6	4K	MA
Thor Love and Thunder	$4	HD	MA
Ticket To Paradise	$6	HD
Till (iTunes Only)	$5	HD
To Kill A Mockingbird	$3	HD
Top Gun	$3	HD
Top Gun Maverick	$6	4K
Top Gun Maverick	$4	HD
Toy Story 4	$6	4k	MA
Toy Story 4	$4	HD	MA
Training Day	$6	4K	MA
Transformers	$6	4K	Vudu/iTunes
Transformers Age of Extinction	$6	4K	Vudu/iTunes
Transformers Dark of the Moon	$6	4K	Vudu/iTunes
Transformers The Last Knight	$6	4K	Vudu/iTunes
Trolls	$3	HD	MA
Trolls 2 Movie Collection	$6	HD	MA
The Turning	$4	HD	MA
Turning Red	$6	4K	MA
Turning Red	$4	HD	MA
Uncharted	$6	4K	MA
Underwold Rise of the Lycans	$3	HD
Venom	$3	HD	MA
Voyagers	$5	4K
The Walking Dead Season 11	$6	HD
Wayne's World	$6	4K
West Side Story (2021)	$3	HD	MA
West Side Story (2021)	$5	4K	MA
The Witch	$4	HD
Wolf of Wall Street	$3	HD	MA
The Woman King	$7	4K	MA
The Woman King	$5	HD	MA
Wreck It Ralph: Ralph Breaks the Internet	$6	4K	MA
X-Men Trilogy (First Class/DOFP/Apocalypse)	$9	HD	MA

The following movies are the current Universal Rewards and are $3 each or 2 for $5
May 2023 Rewards 8 LEFT

Assault on Precinct 13	HD	MA
Being John Malkovich	HD	MA
The Black Dahlia (2006)	HD	MA
Fifty Shades of Grey	4K	MA
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry	HD	MA
Larry Crowne	HD	MA
Snow White and the Huntsman	4K	MA
This is 40	HD	MA
12 Monkeys	4K	MA
Welcome to Marwen	4K	MA

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June 2023 Rewards
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9	HD	MA
About Time	HD	MA
American Pie	HD	MA
The Boy Next Door	HD	MA
Definitely,Maybe	HD	MA
Eastern Promises	HD	MA
Empire	HD	MA
Fifty Shades Darker	4K	MA
The Great Wall	4K	MA
Jarhead 2	HD	MA
Josie and the Pussycats	HD	MA
Reservation Road	HD	MA

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

1. OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link.
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

1. GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
2. OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
3. OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

2. Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
https://i.imgflip.com/7nlatp.jpg
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

3. Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:
Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
To name a few.
There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

1. A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified.
2. The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable?
3. The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA.
4. Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter.
5. An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool.
6. SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow.
7. Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town?
8. OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation.
9. Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way.
10. AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code.

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

1. Couple of courses in Generative AI:
   1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
   2. Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
2. Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here. It is FREE!

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

1. OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link.
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

1. GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
2. OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
3. OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

2. Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
https://i.imgflip.com/7nlatp.jpg
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

3. Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:
Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
To name a few.
There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

1. A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified.
2. The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable?
3. The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA.
4. Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter.
5. An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool.
6. SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow.
7. Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town?
8. OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation.
9. Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way.
10. AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code.

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

1. Couple of courses in Generative AI:
   1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
   2. Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
2. Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here. It is FREE!

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

1. OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link.
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

1. GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
2. OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
3. OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

2. Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
https://i.imgflip.com/7nlatp.jpg
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

3. Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:
Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
To name a few.
There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

1. A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified.
2. The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable?
3. The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA.
4. Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter.
5. An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool.
6. SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow.
7. Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town?
8. OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation.
9. Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way.
10. AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code.

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

1. Couple of courses in Generative AI:
   1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
   2. Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
2. Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here. It is FREE!

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

1. OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link.
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

1. GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
2. OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
3. OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

2. Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
https://i.imgflip.com/7nlatp.jpg
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

3. Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:
Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
To name a few.
There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

1. A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified.
2. The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable?
3. The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA.
4. Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter.
5. An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool.
6. SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow.
7. Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town?
8. OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation.
9. Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way.
10. AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code.

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

1. Couple of courses in Generative AI:
   1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
   2. Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
2. Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here. It is FREE!

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

1. OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link.
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

1. GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
2. OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
3. OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

2. Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
https://i.imgflip.com/7nlatp.jpg
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

3. Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:
Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
To name a few.
There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

1. A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified.
2. The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable?
3. The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA.
4. Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter.
5. An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool.
6. SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow.
7. Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town?
8. OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation.
9. Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way.
10. AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code.

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

1. Couple of courses in Generative AI:
   1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
   2. Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
2. Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here. It is FREE!

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

1. OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link.
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

1. GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
2. OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
3. OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

2. Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
https://i.imgflip.com/7nlatp.jpg
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

3. Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:
Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
To name a few.
There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

1. A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified.
2. The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable?
3. The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA.
4. Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter.
5. An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool.
6. SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow.
7. Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town?
8. OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation.
9. Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way.
10. AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code.

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

1. Couple of courses in Generative AI:
   1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
   2. Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
2. Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here. It is FREE!

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

1. OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link.
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

1. GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
2. OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
3. OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

2. Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
https://i.imgflip.com/7nlatp.jpg
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

3. Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:
Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
To name a few.
There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

1. A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified.
2. The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable?
3. The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA.
4. Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter.
5. An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool.
6. SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow.
7. Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town?
8. OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation.
9. Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way.
10. AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code.

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

1. Couple of courses in Generative AI:
   1. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
   2. Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
2. Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here. It is FREE!

This is a recap covering the major news from last week.

• 🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week
• 🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads
• 🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

🔥Top 3 AI news in the past week

OpenAI plans as per Sam Altman

The CEO of Humanloop had a sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers. He discussed the current and future of OpenAI. The blog was later taken down at the request of OpenAI. Now it can be found at this link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230601000258/https://website-nm4keew22-humanloopml.vercel.app/blog/openai-plans
The whole post is an interesting read. Some of the highlights for me were:

• GPT-3 was not open-source because OpenAI didn’t think many people would be able to run large LLMs. This sounds like a cop-out. After all, LLaMA is also a large LLM and has helped the community.
• OpenAI is limited by GPU power.
• OpenAI will not enter the market, except ChatGPT. Though technically this doesn’t say what Microsoft might do. They are already plugging GPT4 into every other product. And they have no rate limitations.

Is GPT-4 Quality going down?

This has been a recently trending topic.
Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249
Discussed on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/13xik2o/chat_gpt_4_turned_dumber_today/
The interesting thing is that the quality judgment is around the same topic - Coding.
The person on HN says GPT4 is faster but generates buggy code with less in-depth analysis.
While the person on Reddit says that the context window seems smaller. Chatbot cannot remember earlier code. It cannot distinguish between code and comment.
While an employee at OpenAI says nothing has changed.
Has something really changed?
One theory is that while the model might be static the ChatGPT prompt might’ve changed to restrict answers. Everyone was having fun trying to get bomb recipes out of ChatGPT. Now everyone is paying the price.
Another theory is that ChatGPT has always been terrible. It just survived because of novelty. As the novelty wears off people are realizing that it isn’t as great as everyone thought.
My theory is that this might be the after effect of trying to get to a “Cheaper and faster GPT-4” as highlighted by Sam Altman. The trade-off is speed vs accuracy. If it is slightly faster but with slightly worse results, then it might work as well. It is no longer GPT-4, rather GPT-3.75.

Risk of AI = Pandemic and Nuclear War

Center for AI Safety released a statement highlighting the risks of AI:
https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

We have seen the warnings about risks of AI get dire and dire. First it was only people asking for a pause on AI development for 6 months then came George Hinton, and last week OpenAI asked for AI to be regulated using the IAEA framework.
This statement is not really a step up. It reads like a one line, summarized repetition of OpenAI's statement.
The statement gains importance from its signatories. Some of the people include:

• Geoffrey Hinton - Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto
• Demis Hassabis - CEO, Google DeepMind
• Sam Altman - CEO, OpenAI
• Dario Amodei - CEO, Anthropic
• Bill Gates - Gates Ventures
• To name a few.

There are two issues with the statement though.
First, this might just be fear-mongering. The idea is to push governments into making AI a highly regulated industry. This would stop any open source efforts which can compete with the big companies. After all, you don’t really have open source alternatives for nuclear energy, right?
Second, no one really knows how to regulate AI. There have been voluntary rules from Google and the EU AI act is in a very early stage. And the genie is already out of the bottle. People can create AI models in their basement. How do you pull that back?

🗞️10 AI news highlights and interesting reads

• A follow-up to the story about a lawyer submitting fake cases from last edition. As I said, this might lead some people in the legal community to doubt any sort of GPT tool. A federal judge has banned AI-only filings in his courtroom. The filings have to be written by a human or at least human-verified. (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/federal-judge-no-ai-in-my-courtroom-unless-a-human-verifies-its-accuracy/)

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• The Japanese government will not apply copyright law to the AI training data. This is interesting because using copyright data to train AI has been an issue. Sam Altman didn’t have a clear answer when he appeared in front of Congress. The other interesting aspect is going to be whether someone can use GPT-4 data to train their own LLM. Is that copyrightable? (https://technomancers.ai/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/)

​

• The Falcon 40-B model is now Apache 2.0. That means you can use the model for commercial usage for free. This is good news for companies which need an instruction tuned model which beats LlaMA. (https://twitter.com/Thom\_Wolf/status/1663986216771936263)

​

• Photoshop's generative-fill feature is really good. Some of the cool examples on Twitter (https://twitter.com/\_Borriss\_/status/1663568770408013831)

​

• An AI camera with no lens. It gets the location, weather etc details from GPS and then passes it as a prompt to the image generator. Results are pretty cool. (https://twitter.com/BjoernKarmann/status/1663496103998750721)

​

• SEO isn’t changing any time soon. Google’s generative SEO is very slow (https://www.theverge.com/23746083/google-ai-search-generative-experience-slow)

​

• Chirper.AI is a social media only for bots. No humans allowed. I just wonder if Twitter bots go there will Twitter become a ghost town? (https://chirper.ai/)

​

• OpenAI now has a security portal where you can see how they secure data (encryption at rest), backups, Pentest reports etc. This might be a step in the direction towards ChatGPT business. Large corporations look at these policies before they consider any SaaS implementation. (https://trust.openai.com/)

​

• Banks have stepped up hiring for AI roles with JP Morgan leading the way. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-31/jpmorgan-s-push-into-finance-ai-has-wall-street-rushing-to-catch-up)

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• AI code writing might not be the best idea. It will lead to tech debt and shabbily maintained and written code. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-31/jpmorgan-s-push-into-finance-ai-has-wall-street-rushing-to-catch-up)

🧑‍🎓3 Learning Resources

• Couple of courses in Generative AI:
  • Andrew Nghttps://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/
  • Google: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/118
• Build your own Sketch to image app: https://www.tryleap.ai/docs/how-to-build-a-sketch-to-image-app-with-leap-remix

That’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great week ahead.
If you are interested in a focused weekly recap delivered to your inbox on Mondays you can subscribe here:
https://gptweekly.beehiiv.com/
It is FREE!