Five Things AI: Open Source, Video Games, Reddit, Content Farms, Alexa
Five Things AI: Open Source, Video Games, Reddit, Content Farms, Alexa
It's Friday again, and AI is changing almost everything really quickly.
Hello and welcome back to Five Things AI!
I think the biggest topics this week were the results of the latest Llama release, which are supposedly right up there with OpenAI and also the massive losses Amazon reported on its Alexa hardware branch. To me, this shows two things: first and foremost, you can use plenty of ressources and have brilliant people, but still come up with a product that people like and use, but that doesn’t generate enough revenue to be successful. And second: the AI race is far from over, as Meta has just demonstrated with the latest release of Llama. While OpenAI is still the dominant model, this doesn’t mean it will be successful in the long run in creating the product people want to pay for. Just like Alexa, ChatGPT is wildly used, but can it really solve many of the problems people are trying to use it for, especially in an enterprise environment? I think there will be many more product iterations necessary to really have a successful product out there, that does much more than giving clever answers on queries.
The development of AI is still going on at brakeneck speed, so I’m sure we will see more usecases that turn out to be more relevant than what we have right now.
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
A statement by Mark Zuckerberg should be taken with a grain of salt, but I do agree with him on AI and Open Source - I also think this is the way forward. AI is a lot about data and trust - with Open Source you can be sure that clever people will audit the systems and you know much more about what’s going on than with any closed system. Also, this will make it much easier to improve the models.
AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
The video game industry is huge and now the changes inflicted upon this industry by GenerativeAI become apparent. It will be interesting to see if gamers will notice a difference in quality in the next releases.
Google's Exclusive Reddit Access
Reddit is such a huge treasure trove with decades full of content provided by millions of users. Google can now exclusively use this content for search and also for AI. If you use Reddit regularly, you are now helping to train the Google AI platforms.
AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point
So basically ChatGPT-4o mini is now so inexpensive to use that it makes sense to create websites based on prompts that will than make money with ads. Content farms built by bots have been around for a while now, but I assume this will only increase now.
Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions
We have two Alexa devices in our household. We only use it to play music from Spotify. I never wanted to use its AI features and I’m not that interested in having more voices to listen to or to give orders to. While I like the product, I just use it as a speaker device, nothing more.
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— Nico
I'm sad because I love Reddit and hate Google