🔮 Foundational AI; verified Elon; culture clash; giraffes & mushrooms++ #368

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

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I spoke with Shayle Kann, Partner at Energy Impact Partners, about his fund’s approach to investing in climate tech. We take a close look at the five challenges of deep decarbonisation, and how to build the carbon management industry from scratch. Listen to our conversation here, or read the highlights here.

The near future

🕹️ The building blocks of AI

“A photograph of dinosaurs with backpacks walking to kindergarten” Source: OpenAI

OpenAI and Google have both announced large AI models which drop jaws in their demos. OpenAI’s Dall-E allows simple language prompts (like the one above) to create images. (It also, less impressively, has rather strong ideas about wh…