Reid Southen is a successful concept artist who has worked for many of the biggest studios (Marvel, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Paramount etc) on a lot of huge films (Matrix Resurrections, The Hunger Games, Transformers, and Alien, among others). | Continue reading
Probably, yes. | Continue reading
As ever, don’t believe the hype | Continue reading
A few days ago it looked like the EU AI Act had finally been negotiated, and resolved. There was much rejoicing. But the big tech executives that would need to deal with it aren’t happy, and are doing their best after the fact to undermine a hard-won compromise that involve … | Continue reading
though it might not matter that much if it did | Continue reading
Big scoop from the NYT [Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac and Karen Weise] Maybe this is the key example? | Continue reading
Oh no. Oh no. Please tell me this isn’t true. And, ugh, it’s going to be impossible not to watch: § Business Insider’s scoop is here: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-cofounder-ilya-sutskever-invisible-future-uncertain-2023-12 and here’s a juicy … | Continue reading
Friends don’t let friends take demos seriously | Continue reading
Gemini was just announced. Here’s my hot take: Gemini seems to have by many measures matched (or slightly exceeded) GPT-4, but not to have blown it away. From a commercial standpoint GPT-4 is no longer unique. That’s a huge problem for OpenAI, especially post drama, w … | Continue reading
Maybe OpenAI’s board had a point, after all | Continue reading
The EU is about to make a decision that could have enormous, lasting repercussions. | Continue reading
Increasingly, they are. | Continue reading
Three top ML researchers, a leading physicist, and a former French Minister, at each other’s throats | Continue reading
Guess which one is better | Continue reading
Will OpenAI’s Q* change the world? | Continue reading
Actually, let me say at the outset, that my title is a literary stretch. Although this is a Dickensian tale of two that don’t tell the truth, one lies and the other doesn’t. The first is George Santos. He lies are legendary. His lies just got him convicted. | Continue reading
Massive Scoop from The Information: 👉Sam and Greg gave up their board seats 👉Sam agreed to an internal investigation This is inconsistent with all narratives about “cloddish” or self-interested boards, and suggests that something real happened. | Continue reading
A few quick thoughts about what is really important | Continue reading
The real value was always the people, not the IP, not the data, not the customer list, not the infrastructure. Elon Musk’s Grok replicated much (not all) of what OpenAI had done in a few months; Kai-Fu Lee’s new company similarly was able to replicate a lot in less th … | Continue reading
20 November 2023 Dear European leaders, The recent events at OpenAI are likely going to lead to considerable, unpredictable instability. The schisms on display there highlight the fact that we cannot rely purely on the companies to self-regulate AI, wherein even their own | Continue reading
[resending to some readers, sorry for glitch] Posted this a few minutes ago, giving my theory of what transpired over the last few hours: and then, perhaps in keeping with my surmise that Sam’s bluff was called, negotiations broke down altogether. Sam’s out, presumabl … | Continue reading
As Dave Barry used to say, I’m not making this up. Just passing it along. | Continue reading
The irony of OpenAI’s unusual structure | Continue reading
Per The Verge, investors have asked the board to resign and want Sam Altman back in. They may well get their way. 4 vital questions: 👉Will the nonprofit continue to exist? 👉What checks and balances will there be? 👉Where will this leave OpenAI with respect … | Continue reading
Nobody told me there'd be days like these Nobody told me there'd be days like these Nobody told me there'd be days like these Strange days indeed Strange days indeed – John Lennon Sorry, me again. An hour after my last post, a credible rumor came out that OpenAI’s boa … | Continue reading
One theory of the case, popular on the social media platform X, is that the board was a bunch of clowns; they fired Sam for no really good reason beyond some ongoing tensions around company direction. Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever perhaps felt a bit left out. | Continue reading
Altman is out. Hours later Greg Brockman, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board resigned. More exits are rumored. Major drama at OpenAI. We don’t know what happened; many theories are swirling around. How things play out might or might have major impact on the prospects of g … | Continue reading
Wow, just wow: "Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities” Marcus on AI is a reader-suppor … | Continue reading
What a difference a year makes | Continue reading
Corporate capture threatens to derail EU AI Act | Continue reading
Essentially every conversation about “driverless cars” over the last decade has to be rethought — with important implications as well for “AGI timelines”. | Continue reading
We don’t know, but here are some questions regulators should ask | Continue reading
It’s not pretty | Continue reading
Glad to see something come out of it, but we could have hoped for more. | Continue reading
A great start that perhaps doesn’t go far enough | Continue reading
I lost my license now I don’t drive …. Life’s been good to me so far — Joe Walsh Breaking news: § If there’s been one person who has been even more skeptical about driverless cars than I have, going back almost a decade, it is the software engin … | Continue reading
Forward motion is a good thing | Continue reading
A commonly-suggested fix isn’t working | Continue reading
Broadening the training set doesn’t make Generative AI’s Achilles’ Heel go away | Continue reading
A photoessay | Continue reading
No matter how much data you train them on, they still don’t truly understand multiplication. | Continue reading
Breathless predictions about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) are nothing new; they still aren’t true | Continue reading
It is quite possible that no prereleased product in the history of technology has ever has had more expectations put upon it | Continue reading
A few things Marc Andreessen forgot to mention | Continue reading
Why DALL-E 3 is and isn’t better than DALL-E 2 | Continue reading
Scott Pelley didn’t exactly do his homework | Continue reading
Why it’s stretch to say that large language models represent ”literal world models” | Continue reading
I am old enough to remember when the most popular critique of my January appearance on Ezra Klein’s podcast was that the problem I mentioned (such as hallucinations) were a relic of past systems, supposedly more or less corrected, by the time I spoke with Ezra in January. S … | Continue reading