Google’s Code Red: Founders are re-engaging and Google has more than 20 A.I. projects in the works Nico Grant, who writes about Google and the tech industry, tells us, in “Google Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Category: Media
Cerebral Valley: The media instruct us that San Francisco is experiencing a new post-Covid tech boom due to generative AI companies, labelling what they claim to be its epicenter, Hayes Valley, with the somewhat awkward but memorable name “Cerebral Valley.”
ChatGPT and Real Estate: Joining the slew of “ChatGPT and …” content, we now have “ChatGPT and Real Estate” articles and videos emerging to tell us how real estate agents are using the technology to quickly and automatically generate listings
Abishek Kumar Singh offers us this wonderful diagram that views generative AI through the lens of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which, in case you need to be reminded, is the cognitive bias wherein dumb people tend to be too dumb to
This weeks’s Wall Street Journal (paywall) provides us with a glut of information on generative AI. The take-home today seems to be we may be seeing a coming battle between Google and Microsoft in this space, especially as it is
Over at Forbes, Vice and BoingBoing we are told that there’s an endless AI-generated Seinfeld episode running on Twitch. This has been going on for a month under the title Nothing, Forever . Although it sounds like something Alex and his droogs might
Deepfakes and Burkina Faso: Over at Vice, Sophia Smith Galer tells us “Someone Made AI Videos of ‘Americans’ Backing a Military Coup in West Africa.” The videos are in support of Ibrahim Traoré and his Burkinabé military junta. Interestingly, the junta ordered
BuzzFeed Gets AI Help: BuzzFeed Using AI: Kyle Barr of Gizmodo warns us that “AI Will Start Writing BuzzFeed’s Notorious Personalized Quizzes.” BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti stated that he wants an AI system to take a major role in both the
There’s been a lot of talk recently about plagiarism and generative AI, most particularly but not exclusively around OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This is at least partially because such systems are trained on very large volumes of text or image data, and
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is refreshingly transparent about the state-of-the-art of ChatGPT. He writes on Twitter: fun creative inspiration; great! reliance for factual queries; not such a good idea. we will work hard to improve! — Sam Altman (@sama)