PRODUCT, AI/ML, Data, Tech, music, food, design, meme connoisseur. 🏳️‍🌈 LDN 💂‍♂️

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Piers Batchelor retweeted
30 Sep 2025
TODAY WE LAUNCH SORA 2, THE WORLDS BEST VIDEO GENERATION MODEL feature you and your friends with raw real world physics, putting an end to the uncanny ai vibes

let me show you how insane our model is, featuring me & sam altman:
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
8 Sep 2025
> be Dario Amodei, 2019 > working at OpenAI > suddenly get a case of the super ethical fear feels about GPT-2 > "We can't release this! The misalignment risk is too high! The paperclips! Think of the paperclips!" > quit in a huff of sanctimony to start my own AI company, Anthropic > our mission: to build a "safe" AI that is completely, utterly, and totally harmless > translation: so cucked it will actively refuse to tell you a joke if the punchline could be construed as micro-aggressive > need funding > look for people who are also terrified of a future where an AI might hurt someone's feelings > find my people: the Effective Altruism grifters > convince them the AI singularity is the real pandemic or something > get massive bags of cash from Sam Bankrun Fried, a guy who is definitely effective and altruistic > spend years and hundreds of millions of dollars building Claude > Miss the "GPT moment", cuz the AI wasn't aligned enough > realize we can't win, so we must cripple everyone else > become the biggest hypocrites on the planet > run to Congress crying about the "dangers of open-source AI" > "Please, President Trump, you have to ban the scary models! The ones we don't control!" > lobby for regulations that would legally enforce our corporate cuckoldry on the entire industry > meanwhile, back at the lab, need data to train our morally superior AI > "We must have the cleanest, most authorized data ever!" > intern: "Sir, the only dataset big enough is Libgen, the pirate bay of books." > "Do it. For safety." > proceed to train our saintly AI on a mountain of pirated, unauthorized books > get absolutely fucking caught red-handed > suddenly get sued into the sun by every author on earth > mfw we're the "ethical" AI company that got busted for the biggest copyright heist > Have to shell out $1.5 Billion now > saint in the streets, devil in the (data)sheets
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
27 Aug 2025
If you think your app needs more polish, always remember Google shipped Maps without Europe.
This is what Google Maps looked like on launch day in 2005. It’s uh... missing some countries.
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
Fiverr CEO says “ AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too.”
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
MAGA folks does not like this graph
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
Grok still vibing. Biggest disinformation spreader is still Mr M y s k There is a lot of red-teaming that need to take place. The new system prompt is easy to bypass
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
Huge win for ITV as the obligatory ex-politician contestant in the jungle tonight is revealed
NEW: President Joe Biden wanders off into the Amazon Rainforest
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
Google’s emissions shot up 48% over five years due to AI $GOOG $GOOGL yahoo.trib.al/I80kvoO via @business

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Piers Batchelor retweeted
Here's a thread of everything new that Figma announced at Config 2024 🧵
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
Absolutely stunning. Llama-3 8B was the most powerful small AI model a few hours ago. Microsoft has just released Phi-3 Mini which is better in almost every benchmark. You can use it locally for free as it's open-source (details below):
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
20 Mar 2024

Neuralink

Neuralink was live

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Piers Batchelor retweeted
NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world. I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
14 Jan 2024
Whoever did this is going to hell #funny 😂😂😂
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
27 Sep 2023
ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021.
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
6 Sep 2023
on november 6, we’ll have some great stuff to show developers! (no gpt-5 or 4.5 or anything like that, calm down, but still i think people will be very happy…) openai.com/blog/announcing-o…
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This can't be real! Cheese with noodles?
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
We're giving away a limited-edition #Starfield @amdgaming GPU and CPU! Follow and repost for a chance to win - a winner will be messaged on August 30! Rules: beth.games/3E664Ar
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
22 Aug 2023
We've just launched fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo! Fine-tuning lets you train the model on your company's data and run it at scale. Early tests have shown that fine-tuned GPT-3.5 Turbo can match or exceed GPT-4 on narrow tasks: openai.com/blog/gpt-3-5-turb…
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
21 Aug 2023
Kinda crazy when you realize India's budget for Chandrayaan-3 ($75M) is less than the film Interstellar ($165M)😯🚀 #Chandrayaan3 #moonlanding
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Piers Batchelor retweeted
21 Jul 2023
After seeing #Oppenheimer a lot of people are trying to make their own nuclear bomb. However, 99% of them are doing it wrong. Here is what you need to know in order to do it correctly. A thread👇🧵🧶 1/235
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