AGI researcher, CS PhD, inventor, philosopher, musician. AI, HPC, CogSci, DeepTech, Crypto. Founder, @cic_agi, @cypher_coin ⏩️⏩️⏩️
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Eray Özkural, PhD - OG AI ⏭️🌟 retweeted
🎯 RYAN GRAVES GIVES CRAZY UFO DETAILS ~
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Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves and NASA Goddard scientist Dr. Ravi Kopparapu breaking down the Pentagon’s PURSUE UFO videos frame by frame. They cover the redacted data, a reported 480 mph UFO swarm near Kuwait, and the White House name Graves believes could unlock real-time UAP radar data.
#ufotwitter #ufoX #uapX #ufonews
Please note, Cypher Coin that is being developed by Celestial Intellect as part of our decentralized/distributed AGI tech stack, has nothing to do with an impostor token launched more than a year ago by fraudsters using a lame gen AI whitepaper and a terrible code repo we discovered on github by an "anonymous" team from METU later. I had presented Cypher Coin at a METU event, and I believe that the people that organized the METU Blockchain Days or a crypto rat that works at METU have something to do with this fraudulent scheme that used our project name without permission, the traces of that impostor project was found on the net and they are still trying to conceal it for fear of retribution, which very well might happen.
Public statement: Cypher Coin / Cypher Finance is a new L1 crypto infrastructure being developed by @cic_agi and it has never been released or launched as a token before. A copycat project had launched a token with the same name with a completely farcical and invalid whitepaper.
I take much issue with this impostor effort, as it was a clear attempt to profit off my groundbreaking research without acknowledgement or compensation. Why would anyone watch a great crypto presentation and then go on to imitate the name with a terribly written gen AI whitepaper and website that does not even make any sense? It was clearly a scam and I feel sorry for people who lost their money to those METU scammers. If anyone was defrauded by them, DM me and I will tell you who these people likely are.
I can confirm that LLMs nowadays can emulate the most retarded and annoying human reviewers nitpicking on bullshit that is completely irrelevant and devoid of any real understanding. Bravo LLMs. You've achieved Reviewer 2 level of intelligence but that's not so much!
Blockchains are criminal-friendly by design. I am probably the only Layer 1 developer trying to change that. But of course an industry that is dependent on crime to function did not take notice yet. :)
Enabling crime was the primary design motivation no matter what anyone says. This was invented basically for money laundering, gambling, lottery, that sort of thing, but later also for frauds, scams, and theft.
Because of brainless maggots trying to steal every idea, we can no longer have scientific/technical debates on the internet.
It's not an industry, it's a clown car. 🤡🚗
Yann LeCun was right & nobody in this industry wants to say it out loud.
A 109 million parameter model beat models up to 72 billion on a specific test: how closely its internal representations matched those of image models.
About 660× smaller.
Randall Balestriero and LeCun’s paper examines why models trained on text and images can develop similar representations of the world.
Their finding: scale alone doesn’t explain it. The examples paired during training matter.
Two observations of the same scene give the model a shared concept to learn. Predicting the next word from earlier text provides a less direct connection.
In their experiments, the better-paired training method needed 42× fewer examples to reach comparable alignment with vision models. Their small text JEPA also aligned better than every language model they tested, including 72B models.
That measures alignment, not overall intelligence. But it gives researchers a concrete way to improve this capability beyond adding parameters: change what the model learns to connect.
Eray Özkural, PhD - OG AI ⏭️🌟 retweeted
This is probably my favorite study.
Orange juice blocks endotoxin release
AND
Decreased TRL4 expression.
Eray Özkural, PhD - OG AI ⏭️🌟 retweeted
This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned.
“Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.”
Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s.
So, what happened?
Screens.
Dr. Jared Horvath explained:
“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to EVEN GENERAL IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.”
“So why? … The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning (screens).”
“If you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly, to the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation LESS than kids who rarely or never touch tech at school. And that’s across 80 countries.”
But screens aren’t just decimating learning and making new generations less intelligent than the ones before them.
Eray Özkural, PhD - OG AI ⏭️🌟 retweeted
Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...
Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.
He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.
He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.
The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).
Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.
Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.
Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.
Then, he said, something broke.
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.
The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.
The consequences were:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate
"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.
For 30 years, they haven't.
Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.
But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.
Look at SpaceX.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.
"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"
Andreessen's conclusion:
"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
The value of the brain of an average X user is about -$100000.
How long before SI decides to completely scan all of our brains? Perhaps the greatest repository of information in the reachable cosmos is the set of all human brains with their deeply buried, partially forgotten, and half-confused memories. By correlating the data across all human brains, the SI could probably infer far more real truth than from any other source. Beware: our brains are valuable ore! Probably our pets and some wildlife, too.