Five Things AI: Small Internet, AI Harms, Chinese AI Talent, Light, Music
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Hello and welcome to Five Things AI! You’re reading a newsletter that gets send out once a week to help you navigate through the recent developments in AI and hopefully gives you a better understanding of what is going on. Or maybe you just want to be a bit more confused by everything AI. Either way, thanks for reading!
The interesting thing for me each and every week is the biq question: what should I leave out? What’s just news and what will have a bigger impact? What is interesting for you and also new vs. what will you most likely have read somewhere else already? To illustrate this dilemma, let’s talk about Perplexity.ai for a second. This is an AI Search that will give you one answer for your query, along with footnotes with links to the sources. I find this very clever and I guess Google is a bit worried about this. If you get one answer that is the best answer, you don’t need to scroll through endless pages of search results. Pretty clever. And now the news broke that Perplexity.ai will be using ads for their search results. To me, this is really an interesting topic. But it didn’t make it into this week’s selection, because there is not much to discuss about this right now. And this is just one example of the many things I don’t mention here, like the $150 billion Amazon earmarked for AI investments or recent Co-Pilot announcements or that Dall-E can now edit images.
This is Five Things AI and it’s also a bit about the art of omitting and focusing on the core topics.
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For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
Having not enough data is an interesting problem to have and it’s really hard to wrap your head around the idea that AI can generate new data to feed into the AI systems for training purposes. Let’s see how this evolves and how our insta pics will help Meta create better LLMs.
Hackers competed to find AI harms. Here’s what they found.
The big models cannot be that easily tricked into doing things they shouldn’t do. That’s the good part of the report. But there’s more.
Four things you need to know about China’s AI talent pool
In the past, American companies have relied on AI researchers from China. While the number of Chinese AI researchers is still growing, more and more are now staying in China, which will change the dynamics of AI development.
To Build a Better AI Supercomputer, Let There Be Light
Chip design ain’t what it used to be anymore. This is so amazing.
AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better
Musicians are still worried and they should be. But as long as they do live shows, they will be somewhat safe, I guess.