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
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