Founder @storyaapp. #1 Priority: Spreading AI literacy in the publishing industry and creator economy.
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Paolo Danese retweeted
First of all - sorry to all for the long radio silence!
2025 has been a tough year, I won't hide that, but I am just happy I am mentally turning a corner and I am once again back at my desk writing, planning and imagining the future of my Portal Wars saga.
Paolo Danese retweeted
Someone is using a team of 10 AI agents to write a fully autonomous book.
They each have a different role - setting the narrative, maintaining consistency, researching plot points...
You can follow their progress through GitHub commits and watch them work in real-time 🤯
Paolo Danese retweeted
We passed 500,000 users.
Half a million—I can't even.
It's been moving to see so many people enjoy the platform despite our many issues. Thank you for your patience. I hope our community will always remain encouraging & supportive like we are today. Half a million strong. ❤️
Paolo Danese retweeted
Hello World. @pdanese here. Some good news to share: Storya is back.
We never really went away, truly.
@PDanese and @PraveenInPublic have been busy experimenting and doing lots and lots of writing behind the scenes.
But now we are back as Storya. So, WTH happened to us?!?
Paolo Danese retweeted
My dark epic fantasy novel is coming soon.
Rise of the Nemesis launches on Aug 10, 2024.
Soundtrack: Noosphere (Pipe Organ Cut) youtu.be/KCR7ovEwtCA?si=jcow…
WIP of book art (possible new cover):
Paolo Danese retweeted
Be a Generalist or Specialist?
Always thought being a generalist was my strength. I gained vast amount of knowledge without a doubt being one.
While it can open many doors, but its like standing at multiple doors and never really stepping through any.
I recently had a greater realization, stepping into one as a specialist is like going into the Wonderland with Alice. Its a hell of a ride!
In my career of 12+ years, I have been sampling everything, I tried to play all the roles an organization needs, even founded a startup and failed.
The shift was due to the problems that I have been solving lately. It requires deeper understanding as well as a trait of being a generalist to solve problem through existing means.
The shift has made me get obsessed with the problem and finding the solution, it is so hard that it has stolen my sleep and I enjoy that.
But, once I get the answers, I am falling back to being a generalist, so I can gather more knowledge to connect more dots quickly to solve more complex problems.
Be generalist to gain more knowledge, go deeper into something when the problem needs it, get out of the wonderland, and solve the problem.
Paolo Danese retweeted
Sam Altman is looking to raise $7 trillion, or nearly 10% of global GDP, for an AI chip company.
It's hard to comprehend, but no person would even consider this unless they achieved something that will fundamentally reshape the entire world.
And people think AI is in a bubble, lol.
Paolo Danese retweeted
“Of all the people in the world currently suffering catastrophic hunger, more than 80% are in Gaza.” (Video 1)
“Aid trucks that are allowed in are seized upon by the hungry, what is provided is simply not enough. Madame President, members of the court, this is an image of an aid truck arriving in Gaza.” (Video 2)
“As you have heard, but it bears repeating, according to the World Food Programme, 4 out of 5 people in the world in famine or a catastrophic type of hunger, are in Gaza right now.” (Video 3)
“Indeed experts warn that deaths from starvation and disease risk significantly outstripping deaths from bombings.”
—South Africa’s Superb Legal Team
👏👏🇿🇦
@AndrewMarr9 @mrjamesob
#InternationalCourtOfJustice #ICJ
#TheHague
#SouthAfrica #Israel #Gaza
#Gaza_Genocide
Paolo Danese retweeted
Activist Jimmy Lai paid pro-democracy parties and overseas media outlets, Hong Kong court hears in nat. security trial
🔗 hongkongfp.com/2024/01/11/ac…
ALT Media mogul Jimmy Lai made payments to pro-democracy groups and overseas media organisations, court hears
Paolo Danese retweeted
Join our newsletter as we dive deeper into the current AI advancements and how it can be used.
@PraveenInPublic and I explore how AI and indie authors will revolutionize publishing - head over to our newsletter for more: musemachine.substack.com/p/2…
Paolo Danese retweeted
An explanation for why GPT-4 is degrading:
"... we find that on datasets released before the LLM
training data creation date, LLMs perform surprisingly better than on datasets released after"
New tasks are difting away from what GPT-4 was trained on.
ALT Large language models (LLMs) offer impressive performance in various zero-shot and few-shot tasks. However, their suc- cess in zero-shot and few-shot settings may be affected by task contamination, a potential limitation that has not been thoroughly examined. This paper investigates how zero-shot and few-shot performance of LLMs has changed chronolog- ically over time. Utilizing GPT-3 series models and several other recent open-sourced LLMs, and controlling for dataset difficulty, we find that on datasets released before the LLM training data creation date, LLMs perform surprisingly bet- ter than on datasets released after. This strongly indicates that, for many LLMs, there exists task contamination on zero- shot and few-shot evaluation for datasets released prior to the LLMs’ training data creation date. Additionally, we uti- lize training data inspection, task example extraction, and a membership inference attack, which reveal further evidence of task contamination.
Paolo Danese retweeted
@PDanese and I are exploring the frontier of AI: We're diving deep into how AI like DALL-E and Claude are reshaping the creative and business landscapes. Join us as we share our journey and learnings.
Vid generated using @pika_labs
Full article link and image prompt at the end
Paolo Danese retweeted
We are on the @hackernoon homepage! 😍
Long story short:
@PDanese and I were building @StoryaApp, which unfortunately didn't succeed. However, we've started sharing our learnings through a newsletter and hope to share more insights in the coming weeks.
Paolo Danese retweeted
728 billionaires hold more wealth than half of American households. If that doesn’t tell you we’re in a second Gilded Age, I don’t know what will.
Paolo Danese retweeted
It's easier to say that "Failure is a stepping stone to success"
When you have poured your heart and soul for 2 years
Yet, failing is not an easy pill to swallow.
But it is necessary to rise up again.
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
#buildinpublic
1/ After our startup Storya shut down, my co-founder @PraveenInPublic
and I faced that all-too-familiar founder whiplash - dreams to pragmatism overnight.
But failure can deal a creative blow too.
