A couple days ago I reported a survey saying that most IT professional are worried about the security of LLMs. They have every right to be. There seems to be an endless number of ways of attacking them. In my forthcoming book, Taming Silicon Valley, I describe two examples. The f … | Continue reading
Why and how it could happen in the next 12 months. | Continue reading
By any reasonable account the worst investment in the history of AI has to be the over $100 billion that have been invested in “driverless” cars. There may be a payoff someday, but thus far there has not been a lot. By many accounts Waymo rides are still a net loss on a per ride … | Continue reading
It’s not every day that I say this, but OpenAI got something exactly right yesterday, at a meeting at Columbia: OpenAI’s VP of Global Affairs Anna Makanju is exactly right - the race is on. I have some concerns, partly about the way that race is going, partly about (in)justice in … | Continue reading
Ten birthday observations | Continue reading
“Certainly, here is a list of” scientific garbage that may have been partially written by a factually-challenged bot | Continue reading
Not every thing the company says is completely candid. | Continue reading
Science is in for a rough ride | Continue reading
Anyone remember this piece? We are starting to see some signs in that direction. The WSJ recently reported that Microsoft Copilot was perhaps underwhelming some customers. Today Stephanie Palazzolo The Information asked: A longer story there (that she pointed to in the above)) wa … | Continue reading
Report card on an infamous paper. | Continue reading
And why it is becoming increasingly difficult to take them at their word | Continue reading
Shocking new paper with potentially serious implications | Continue reading
Agony first. The agony starts with the fact that Elon Musk has a point; OpenAI, Altman and Brockman *have* changed their mission since he gave them his money, his time and his reputation. Here's what they told that State of the California in 2015: THIRD: This Corporation shall be … | Continue reading
Some subtleties that eluded the All-In podcast | Continue reading
Third lawsuit this week | Continue reading
The dangers of generative pastische | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay on ten of the challenges I expected OpenAI to face this year. Things just got worse. Here’s some of what’s happened in the last two weeks. 👉 Sora demo blows minds but fails basic physics and biology 👉 One of OpenAIR … | Continue reading
The thing about promises is that in Silicon Valley, accountability rarely shows up. Investors put in over $100 billion into the driverless car industry, and so far have little to show far it. Endless promises (and empty predictions) were made at essentially no cost to those who m … | Continue reading
No time to write today, but here is a fascinating graph, hat tip to Jeffrey Funk: Maybe, and I am just spitballing, LLMs aren’t quite the magic panacea that the industry lead us all to believe? See also this report February 13 at WSJ and this one, February 16 | Continue reading
And why it is unlikely to get much better anytime soon | Continue reading
Oh, Sexy Sora, what have you done? | Continue reading
Monkey see, monkey confabulate | Continue reading
What happens to chatbots if they people who use them for customer service are held responsible for the things those bots say? | Continue reading
Some thoughts on what it all means for AGI | Continue reading
Programming in English might not be all its cracked up to be. | Continue reading
The Foundation Remains Shaky | Continue reading
Dall-E 3 and Gemini have something in common with DALL-E 2 | Continue reading
Your post on X this morning raises many questions | Continue reading
The costs of extravagance | Continue reading
A lot | Continue reading
There must be some misunderstanding There must be some kind of mistake – Phil Collins / Genesis Great example last night from Denis O. on LinkedIn, that connects with pretty much everything have been writing about, from elephants on beaches to the lack of understanding in l … | Continue reading
More on storage and the shallow understanding of Generative AI | Continue reading
Sam Altman is a fantastic strategic thinker. Satya Nadella is a fantastic strategic thinker. Demis Hassabis is one of the greatest all-around games players of all time. ChatGPT, not so much. It’s notorious for making illegal moves in chess. How about something easier? | Continue reading
Hinton’s “savage” but misguided attack on Marcus, analyzed | Continue reading
Why you should be worried | Continue reading
An entire cast of deepfaked people—include a deepfaked CFO—scammed a company out $25 million. | Continue reading
Copyright infringement, anyone? | Continue reading
See if you can spot them all. | Continue reading
The AI darling faces a long list of serious challenges in 2024 | Continue reading
And how things could quickly get ugly in the real world | Continue reading
The usually on-target AI Snake Oil got this one wrong; a lot of money is at stake | Continue reading
Big news today, via Stephanie Palazzolo at The Information: the group Public Citizen yesterday petitioned the state California to reevaluate OpenAI’s nonprofit status. As Robert Weissman, the President of Public Citizen put it to me on a phone call, the OpenAI drama seemed … | Continue reading
If we had to guess, line that’s going to live in infamy from yesterday’s OpenAI announcement, a reply to the New York Times lawsuit, is probably the one that says “Regurgitation” is a rare bug that we are working to drive to zero”. Our view? Good luc … | Continue reading
Copyright infringement issues could sink their business, but why should they have to pay licensing fees like everybody else? | Continue reading
Reid Southen and I continued our experiments, and wrote a long paper about what we found, and why they may pose serious problems both for users and developers that are difficult to fix. You can find it here: https://spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-copyright | Continue reading
A full of spectrum of infringment | Continue reading