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Skip The Hype, Here's How AI Agents Can Really Help
The reality of where AI agents are headed is that they won't be blank-slate geniuses that can handle lots of tasks. Instead, they'll be highly specialised at repetitive chores.
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Be Wary Of Sam Altman's AI Doublespeak
Altman has become a master of modulating between humility and hype.
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ChatGPTs $8 Trillion Birthday Gift To Big Tech
What's clear is that in two years, the biggest beneficiaries of the kind of AI that will one day "benefit all humanity," according to Sam Altman, are a handful of tech firms.
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AI Started As A Dream To Save Humanity. Then, Big Tech Took Over.
Many AI builders say this tech promises a path to utopia. Others say it could bring about the collapse of our civilization. In reality, the science-fiction scenarios have distracted us from the more insidious ways AI is threatening to harm society.
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Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost
In 2017, researchers at Alphabet’s Mountain View, California, headquarters were talking over their midday meal about how to make computers generate text more efficiently. Over the next five months they ran experiments and, not realizing the magnitude of what they’d discovered, wrote their findings up in a research paper called “Attention is A...
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In Apple We Trust … With More and More Personal Data
At its World Wide Developers Conference this week, the company announced new products that would process more personal information about consumers than ever before, from retinal scans to mental health data. But privacy advocates this week were like mimes in a library — completely silent.
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Let’s All Calm Down About AI’s ‘Extinction Risk’
Spotlighting AI’s world-destroying capabilities in vague ways allows us to fill in the blanks with our imagination, ascribing future AI with infinite capabilities and power. It’s a masterful marketing ploy.
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ChatGPT Needs to Go to College to Get More Accurate: Parmy Olson
OpenAI trained ChatGPT on the vast, imperfect glory of the public internet — one reason why ChatGPT makes so many embarrassing mistakes. A lawyer who recently used the chatbot to write his court brief realized he’d blundered when it cited six nonexistent cases. It can get more accurate by having trained on better-quality data.
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ChatGPT’s ‘iPhone Moment’ Poses a New Threat to Google
ChatGPT’s new plugins, released last week with relatively little fanfare, are a major leap forward for the technology. Here's how OpenAI's upgrades to ChatGPT make it even more of a threat to big tech companies such as Google.
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There's No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) conjures the notion of thinking machines, but no software is really intelligent or capable of thinking. Here's why the phrase 'artificial intelligence' alone may be one of the most successful marketing terms of all time.
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Opinion: Amazon, Google Scramble To Keep Pace With OpenAI Despite Huge AI Teams
Of all the questions that ChatGPT has raised about the future of artificial intelligence, one still reverberates through Silicon Valley: Why couldn't the industry's largest technology firms breed an innovative service with a similar kind of impact?
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Mark Zuckerberg May Have Better Luck With Elon Musk’s ‘Blue Tick'
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced Meta Verified, a paid subscription service for users to receive a verification badge on the platform, after providing government-issued ID to prove their identity. Here's why Zuckerberg may have better luck with Meta Verified than Elon Musk's revamped Twitter Blue, which has reportedly floundered — only about 0....
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Layoffs Alone Won’t Solve Tech’s Problems: Parmy Olson
The tech sector has had a tough time recently with the prevailing economic downturn hitting all the big companies. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet have all announced layoffs in the thousands to cut their losses. While these tech giants are tightening up on fringe benefits and showing their talent the door, there is still more to do.
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Beware ChatGPT Trying to Teach Your Kids Math … or Anything
ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to answer users' questions, has been cautiously praised by educators as a tool that could revolutionise education. The tool’s personalised responses are what make it so tantalising as an all-knowing digital tutor. Here's why you should beware of ChatGPT teaching your ...
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Apple’s iPhone Needs a Shake-Up. a New Law Might Help
iPhone maker Apple faces a new European law that will force the company to loosen its iron grip on its products. Apple's walled garden is how the company lures consumers into buying expensive earphones, watches and speakers that work seamlessly with its iPhone models, while keeping them locked to the company's ecosystem. Here's how the new EU law...
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Skip The Hype, Here's How AI Agents Can Really Help
The reality of where AI agents are headed is that they won't be blank-slate geniuses that can handle lots of tasks. Instead, they'll be highly specialised at repetitive chores.
-
Be Wary Of Sam Altman's AI Doublespeak
Altman has become a master of modulating between humility and hype.
-
ChatGPTs $8 Trillion Birthday Gift To Big Tech
What's clear is that in two years, the biggest beneficiaries of the kind of AI that will one day "benefit all humanity," according to Sam Altman, are a handful of tech firms.
-
AI Started As A Dream To Save Humanity. Then, Big Tech Took Over.
Many AI builders say this tech promises a path to utopia. Others say it could bring about the collapse of our civilization. In reality, the science-fiction scenarios have distracted us from the more insidious ways AI is threatening to harm society.
-
Meet the $4 Billion AI Superstars That Google Lost
In 2017, researchers at Alphabet’s Mountain View, California, headquarters were talking over their midday meal about how to make computers generate text more efficiently. Over the next five months they ran experiments and, not realizing the magnitude of what they’d discovered, wrote their findings up in a research paper called “Attention is A...
-
In Apple We Trust … With More and More Personal Data
At its World Wide Developers Conference this week, the company announced new products that would process more personal information about consumers than ever before, from retinal scans to mental health data. But privacy advocates this week were like mimes in a library — completely silent.
-
Let’s All Calm Down About AI’s ‘Extinction Risk’
Spotlighting AI’s world-destroying capabilities in vague ways allows us to fill in the blanks with our imagination, ascribing future AI with infinite capabilities and power. It’s a masterful marketing ploy.
-
ChatGPT Needs to Go to College to Get More Accurate: Parmy Olson
OpenAI trained ChatGPT on the vast, imperfect glory of the public internet — one reason why ChatGPT makes so many embarrassing mistakes. A lawyer who recently used the chatbot to write his court brief realized he’d blundered when it cited six nonexistent cases. It can get more accurate by having trained on better-quality data.
-
ChatGPT’s ‘iPhone Moment’ Poses a New Threat to Google
ChatGPT’s new plugins, released last week with relatively little fanfare, are a major leap forward for the technology. Here's how OpenAI's upgrades to ChatGPT make it even more of a threat to big tech companies such as Google.
-
There's No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) conjures the notion of thinking machines, but no software is really intelligent or capable of thinking. Here's why the phrase 'artificial intelligence' alone may be one of the most successful marketing terms of all time.
-
Opinion: Amazon, Google Scramble To Keep Pace With OpenAI Despite Huge AI Teams
Of all the questions that ChatGPT has raised about the future of artificial intelligence, one still reverberates through Silicon Valley: Why couldn't the industry's largest technology firms breed an innovative service with a similar kind of impact?
-
Mark Zuckerberg May Have Better Luck With Elon Musk’s ‘Blue Tick'
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced Meta Verified, a paid subscription service for users to receive a verification badge on the platform, after providing government-issued ID to prove their identity. Here's why Zuckerberg may have better luck with Meta Verified than Elon Musk's revamped Twitter Blue, which has reportedly floundered — only about 0....
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Layoffs Alone Won’t Solve Tech’s Problems: Parmy Olson
The tech sector has had a tough time recently with the prevailing economic downturn hitting all the big companies. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet have all announced layoffs in the thousands to cut their losses. While these tech giants are tightening up on fringe benefits and showing their talent the door, there is still more to do.
-
Beware ChatGPT Trying to Teach Your Kids Math … or Anything
ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to answer users' questions, has been cautiously praised by educators as a tool that could revolutionise education. The tool’s personalised responses are what make it so tantalising as an all-knowing digital tutor. Here's why you should beware of ChatGPT teaching your ...
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Apple’s iPhone Needs a Shake-Up. a New Law Might Help
iPhone maker Apple faces a new European law that will force the company to loosen its iron grip on its products. Apple's walled garden is how the company lures consumers into buying expensive earphones, watches and speakers that work seamlessly with its iPhone models, while keeping them locked to the company's ecosystem. Here's how the new EU law...
