Five Things AI: Taylor Swift, Perplexity, Data Storytelling, Hugging Face, Silicon
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Honestly, I never thought I would link to an article about Taylor Swift on Five Things AI, but I guess AI generated porn is an issues we have to deal with until regulators and companies have safeguards in place.
Are you using GenerativeAI for search, yet? I don’t, and while Bing never really had a serious pickup in usage even though it had AI capabilities early on, which got Google worried, I’m sure that we will surely use more and more GenerativeAI for search in the next few years.
I still think that we totally overlook the fact that AI can be used to present data in various forms that make it easier for us to understand and dig into the data.
And we have seen a real push for Open Source AI models this week, which will reignite the old question about closed and open source approaches. As I used Linux extensively, and probably exessively, too, in the 90s and early 00s, it should be pretty clear who I am rooting for.
Lastly, let’s find out about an idea that could prevent AI to rule us all and turn us into drooling slaves.
Find out more about all this in today’s Five Things AI!
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The Taylor Swift Deepfakes Disaster Threatens to Change the Internet As We Know It
This is really so bizarre and yet fascinating, what GenerativeAI can create - with grave implications. Obviously, Taylor Swift is a very public figure, but just try to imagine what could happen to odinary people with AI gone wild.
Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me.
Let me give you a quick peek behind the clickbait headline: Kevin Roose, who’s one of my favorite tech journalists likes Perplexity.ai and now uses it instead of Google. While I like Perplexity, I’m not yet convinced and/or too lazy to change my habits.
The Enduring Power of Data Storytelling in the Generative AI Era
“In 2021, Gartner predicted that data stories will be the most widespread way of consuming analytics by 2025 and that augmented analytics techniques will generate 75% of these stories. With the widespread adoption of generative AI over the past year, it’s quite likely that this number will be much more than 75% and will be realized much earlier.” - it’s a useful advice to look beyond chatbot interfaces when using GenerativeAI to access big chunks of data.
Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
Hugging Face focuses on open source AI models and this collaboration will give the many AI developers a powerful tool. Interesting to see how Google is betting on different horses right now.
Etching AI Controls Into Silicon Could Keep Doomsday at Bay
This sounds promising. Let’s just hope that the AI doesn’t find out and takes measures to override this without us knowing.
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