Artificial intelligence and machine learning have permeated nearly all practical spheres of our lives, making them an instant sensation with new tools and models promising new things every week. Here, I try to cover this AI popular culture as it unfolds, picking important news stories and publishing them after careful deliberation.
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“I think there will come a time in the not-so-distant future, like we’re not talking decades and decades from now, where frontier AI systems are capable of causing significant global harm. I’d be super nervous about regulatory overreach here. I think we get this wrong by doing way too much or a little too much. I think we can get this wrong by doing not enough.” Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (All-In Podcast E178)
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- SoftBank’s AI Ambitions Hit a Snag: Intel Out, TSMC In?SoftBank’s Project Izanagi faces setbacks as Intel struggles to meet demands. The company turns to TSMC for AI chip production, aiming to challenge Nvidia’s dominance.
- Walmart Ditches 100 Humans, Hires One AIWalmart’s CEO, Doug McMillon, recently spilled the beans on their latest cost-cutting strategy: replacing nearly 100 human workers with generative AI. Ouch.
- Researchers Develop AI to Accurately Predict Multiple DiseasesResearchers develop a new AI model that achieves 95% accuracy in predicting various diseases, paving the way for proactive and personalized healthcare.
- Elon Musk Sues OpenAI (Again)Musk’s new lawsuit against OpenAI is for manipulating him to co-found the company.
- Meta in Talks to License Celeb VoicesMeta has signed celebs for voice AI and Google hired talent from Character.AI, possibly hinting at the push for the next big thing.
- Microsoft is Burning Cash on AI with Inadequate ROITech companies are investing billions in AI but not seeing proper ROI. Microsoft’s $19B concerns analysts, potentially making AI appear pretty useless so far, while companies are using the “it’s a long-term investment” argument.
- Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro Takes the AI Crown, Beats GPT-4o & Claude-3.5According to the LMSYS Leaderboards, Google’s new AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro has defeated the previous champion, GPT-4o, and Claude-3.5 to come on top.
- AI Predicts Alzheimer’s with 80%+ AccuracyA new model trained on existing medical records boasts an accuracy of more than 80% in telling if people with mild cognitive impairment will stay stable or get Alzheimer’s.
- Microsoft’s AI Boss Thinks Copying from the Web is Just Fine (It’s Not)Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman claims anything on the web is fair game for copying, ignoring basic copyright principles.
What happens on this website?
I keep a list of sources about AI, ML, deep learning, and related fields that I check regularly. Anything that’s worth talking is picked up from these sources. The sources include Twitter lists, subreddits, AI/tech sections of big news websites, and a bunch of daily newsletters. Of course, sometimes I miss a few stories. I also ignore stories that are too shallow, such as a rumor or a minor leak because of my limited bandwidth.
When I find a story worth covering, I research all of its facets, often reading multiple articles to formulate the core of the matter. Then, I write on the story with my own opinions and biases. Nobody’s knowledge is perfect, and so, I do my best to clarify my research process and link to important resources throughout my coverage.
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