Five Things AI: Global AI Flow, Orion, Character.AI, Intelligence Age, AI on Laptops
Five Things AI: Global AI Flow, Orion, Character.AI, Intelligence Age, AI on Laptops
Until AGI takes over, you have to read this yourself.
Well, hello again and welcome to Five Things AI!
We’re starting this newsletter a bit differently this time. At the beginning of September I included an article called Why A.I. isn’t going to make Art and a few days ago I got some gentle pushback from Mike Brauner, who disagrees with this article. Actually, Mike is an expert on AI Art and he’s currently putting together the first edition of the AI Art Magazine, which sounds like an amazing idea. He just started the open call and is looking forward to lots of great submissions! So please spread the word!
The AI Art Magazine Open Call – Edition One
Before you start to create your AI Art, please read the five articles I picked out for you this week!
Behind OpenAI’s Audacious Plan to Make A.I. Flow Like Electricity
“In private conversations, Mr. Altman has compared the world’s data centers to electricity, according to three people close to the discussions. As the availability of electricity became more widespread, people found better ways of using it. Mr. Altman hoped to do the same with data centers and eventually make A.I. technologies flow like electricity.” - this is one huge idea, but I assume this will be pushed forward quickly now as too many countries fear to be left behind otherwise.
Meta Missed Out on Smartphones. Can Smart Glasses Make Up for It?
I think the Orion glasses could be useful in the future. Sure, they still look a bit dorky, but I’d love to have glasses that give me some context information about people I run into somewhere and who seem to know me from somewhere, and I just cannot figure out who they are… Seriously, I think AR makes so much more sense than the whole metaverse stuff.
Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration
This is one of the big advantages Big Tech has: they can just afford to shell out a lot of money for strategic investments and the stock market will reward this behaviour in the war for talents.
The Intelligence Age
Sam Altman is certain that AI will make the world a better place: “I believe the future is going to be so bright that no one can do it justice by trying to write about it now; a defining characteristic of the Intelligence Age will be massive prosperity.” - I’m certain we need much better and more regulation to make sure all the good things will happen.
Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops
This is so interesting. While Sam Altmann wants to span the world with datacenters, other people find a way to just use their laptops to get all the magic AI sauce they need.
If you missed last week’s edition of Five Things AI, you can read it here:
That’s it for Five Things AI this week! 🤖
— Nico