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Friday Links: AI Glasses, Edge Domination and AI Tools for Screenwriters
An agreement in Hollywood and AI assistants coming to your Raybans
Friday Links: Multi-lingual podcasts, OpenAI's PR department and LLMs v's RAGs
Another batch of reading links for the weekend
Friday Links: OpenAI Red Teaming, $100M for Writing and Learning by Historical Hallucination
After a bit of a crazy travel week, just four links, but here they are: * Writer.AIs $100M Series B (the TechCrunch take is here): there have been a lot of AI mega-funding rounds, but I’m calling this one out because I think it’s a pattern we’ll see more of. A writing tool doesn’t seem eye-catching: how will they hold on to their audience, for example, if they are embedded in other UIs like editing tools? However, what Writer does is wrap their own custom LLM in tools that facilitate in-enterp
Your AI Startup's Data Moat Might Not be as Deep as it Looks
New techniques are getting more out of less data and not all data is created equal
Friday Links: Chips, Sausages and Presidential Candidate Clones
Five of the most interesting news items of the week
Can AI really be Creative?
Yes, unless you want to discount most of human creativity
Smokebox: Copyright, AI Baby Faces and Cloning Yourself
Plus the limits of LLMs and what we'll need to build around them.
CPU Rich v's CPU Poor
The new silicon divide probably won't be as bad as it looks
Smokebox: AI, Nuclear Power & a Facebook Public Service Announcement
Welcome to this week’s Smokebox! A weekly digest of some of the most interesting AI-related news items each week: * Benedict Evans outlines many of the key questions around AI and Copyright. No good answers yet, but good questions. I plan a full post on this in the future, but I agree with him that it’s important to realize that an LLM is more like an inference engine than it is a database. In the meantime, some of the biggest stars are seeing the potential in licensing the rights to digital t
Do we need a new Turing Test?
Beating the immitation game matters much less than it seems
Smokebox: AI Investing, Watching Neural Network learn and Open Source
What's new and interesting this week
LLMs in the Architecture of a Mind
Sparks of unfiltered creation
Coming Soon
Yet Another AI Substack.