Five Things AI: Perplexity, Social Networks, Apple, Original Sin, Goldilocks
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Hi and welcome back to Five Things AI! My name is Nico Lumma and every week I like to share five interesting articles about AI with you. So instead of researching for hours on the web, just read these five articles here and you are all set. As I’m saving you a couple of hours every week, I’d really appreciate it if you could go paid and spend the equivalent of one large café latte on this newsletter.
Another week full of interesting stories about AI is coming to an end. While analysts are debating how big NVDIA’s market cap could grow, more and more people take notice AI. The hype cycle is in full swing and yet, at the same time, large corporations are introducing their AI based solutions to increase productivity and efficiency. The race is on and those who think they could afford to sit it out, will be left behind. Marc Andreesen once famously wrote that software is eating the world. AI is accelerating this by a lot.
So let’s see how AI will be everywhere soon. Before you read on, please remember that I turned 52 years this week and therefore have a special 52% discount offer for paid subscriptions this week! So don’t wait!
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Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
Oh wow, this doesn’t look good for Perplexity. I bet the people at Google are having a field day about this.
AIs are coming for social networks
To some extend, what we will see soon with AI in social networks is “just” a lot wilder version of the filters we have been using the last decade or so. If they really do this, social media will be even weirder than it is now.
Apple’s Intelligent Strategy
This is a pretty good analysis of Apple’s AI strategy. The focus on privacy and the way different AI models are integrated, clearly gives Apple a huge advantage.
How to Fix ‘AI’s Original Sin’
Tim O’Reilly debates how copyrights and revenues can be configured in a way that benefits the development of AI as well as the media industry: “When someone reads a book, watches a video, or attends a live training, the copyright holder gets paid. Why should derivative content generated with the assistance of AI be any different? Accordingly, we have built tools to integrate AI-generated products directly into our payment system. This approach enables us to properly attribute usage, citations, and revenue to content and ensures our continued recognition of the value of our authors’ and teachers’ work.”
The Goldilocks Zone
AI is more like Oil than God. It’s an economically useful commodity that can be scaled and refined to act as a multiplier on everything we do. Gasoline didn’t replace the horse and buggy; it let buggies carry humans further, faster.“ - what do you think?
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— Nico