I run a couple of AI companies, advise boards, work with SMEs, and invest in builders. Tech diver and author.
QLD, Australia & Asia
Joined October 2013
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Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
my spidey senses are telling me the labs are, as we speak, using unguardrailed versions of their unreleased models to systematically reverse-engineer ALL of the internet’s software, apps, and games, then feeding the reconstructed source code straight into their training pipelines while simultaneously building guardrails to ladder-pull the rest of us
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Somewhere a health insurance COBOL mainframe just exploded
California city makes history allowing throuples, foursomes to legally register as partners trib.al/injZnvo
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Rare moral clarity and moral leadership here
Italian chef fired for refusing to put pineapple on pizza bbc.in/4egT8uf
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
@a16z State of Longevity report is out!
@evajsteinman and I surveyed 500 Americans to predict what's next.
We're also interviewing people at the cutting edge of health & tech about what they do themselves. My interview with @hubermanlab is out today.
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
A litmus test of financial literacy:
If you believe a 4% investment return or a 5% dividend yield automatically means you can spend that amount every year, and you're comfortable retiring on that assumption, you are financially illiterate.
You're ignoring inflation, taxes, market volatility, and the difference between nominal returns and sustainable withdrawals.
You are set to lose.
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Mustafa Suleyman, Hassabis, Musk, Altman, Sutskever, Mostaque, Yud, Sapolsky, etc.
The AI crowd really feels like 19th-century German philosophy circles.
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
If your VERY FIRST reaction to watching a horrific Learjet crash is “That looks fake,” “It was a missile,” or “Where’s the debris?” then congratulations. You’ve just identified yourself as the perfect mark for every conspiracy grifter on the internet.
It’s the same breathtaking stupidity that gave us the 9/11 Pentagon “missile” and “missing debris” conspiracy theories.
A horrific tragedy unfolds before your eyes, and before you know a single fact, your first instinct is to invent a conspiracy. STFU & GTFO!
You’re not “just asking questions.” You’re broadcasting your ignorance, your gullibility, and your complete inability to distinguish evidence from bullshit.
And the people exploiting these tragedies know EXACTLY who you are. They know how to manipulate you, outrage you, and keep you coming back for another helping of manufactured mystery.
They turn human suffering into conspiracy content, and you eagerly spread it for them.
You think you’re exposing a cover-up. You’re actually exposing how easily you can be played.
The grifters have a product. You’re the customer.
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
At the opening of the show Silicon Valley, they count the people in the room: Musk, Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt and add, “There is 40 billion dollars in this room”
That is how much we are inflated.
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Ücretli aboneler için chat açıldı.
İçeride ne profesörler, hatta doçentler var.
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
I spent 14 years as an antisemite.
This is my open letter to @ADL, @StopAntisemites, and @canarymission.
I hope you’ll read it and consider what it says.
lucasgage.pub/p/an-open-lett…
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Unlike most people on Twitter, I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people are making is they are asking “how can I use this to automate a smart person’s job”, when they should be asking “what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people”
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says if frontier models stopped advancing, it wouldn't matter for most orgs because enterprise AI is bottlenecked on context, not intelligence:
"There's no agentic work that's automated the whole enterprise. That has just not happened. Why is that? The real reason is the models are smart enough, but they just don't have the context that exists inside of any organization."
"They have not been in every meeting. They don't know what's in everybody's heads. They don't know all the processes. There's always a couple of employees who know everything in every organization. You go tap on their shoulder, and everybody's like, 'Oh my God, what would happen if he or she quits?'"
"If you just fused that and gave that context into the AI models, just the frontier today, I think there's so much productivity gains you could get for any organization on the planet."
"For that, we actually don't need smarter models... If the frontier doesn't advance, it doesn't actually matter for the vast majority of organizations on the planet. They're just so far behind in the adoption curve of actually automating things and getting value out of this stuff."
@alighodsi
Read the latest Profiles of the Future by @bhorowitz and @mikemcg0 on Databricks & the Future of the Firm: a16z.news/p/databricks-and-t…
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Had early access to Genie 4 from @GoogleDeepMind.
This is a fully generated, interactive world from a single starting prompt (environment + character) 🤯
Feels like a massive step forward - you can now prompt to change the world and interact with it. With native audio!
Halil Babilli 🇦🇺 retweeted
Peter Thiel might be onto something here…
aleximas.substack.com/p/what…
FWIW I think he’s missing important dimensions like desire for human connection, empathy, shared understanding, which will be important for the future of jobs in healthcare, education, etc.
Walter Isaacson asks Peter Thiel what humans can uniquely do in the AI era.
Thiel: "We're very relational… these relational dimensions will become more important."
When knowledge is worth $0, the only career skills that matter:
- networking / social calibration
- persuasion (sales)
- curiosity (harnessing AI)
- taste (curation)
- storytelling
- grit
- golfing with clients (or equivalent)
We'll get so sick of a fake world that we'll go back to doing business like it's the 1800s. A handshake at the local saloon.
