The robot will walk among you

Over the weekend, Elon Musk revealed updates on a bunch of products, like robovans, robotaxis, and self-driving cars. Wall Street didn't believe his timelines, I guess, because Tesla stock immediately dropped 25%.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.understandably.com/p/the-robot-will-walk-among-you

Meet Aria: The New Open Source Multimodal AI That's Rivaling Big Tech

Artificial intelligence just got a new player—and it's fully open-sourced. Aria, a multimodal LLM developed by Tokyo-based Rhymes AI, is capable of processing text, code, images, and video all within a single architecture.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://decrypt.co/286132/aria-new-open-source-multimodal-ai-rivaling-big-tech

I Will Never Use AI To Help Me With My Writing Again

Despite that, I always wanted to be a big writer. So, I started with personal blogs, moved to news, and this year, with books. My first book was a romantic fiction novel that I finished in March of this year.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://medium.com/practice-in-public/why-i-will-never-use-ai-to-help-me-with-my-writing-again-ac6c09009360

How to Say No to Our A.I. Overlords

Big tech brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta have all unleashed tech that they describe as artificial intelligence. Soon, the companies say, we’ll all be using A.I. to write emails, generate images and summarize articles. But who asked for any of this in the first place?

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/technology/personaltech/turn-off-ai-overviews-google-meta.html

Nobel Prize winner claims former OpenAI Chief Scientist fired Sam Altman because he "is much less concerned with AI safety than profits" — and suggests superintelligence might be on the horizon : "We have maybe 4 years left"' before human extinction

OpenAI has been in the spotlight for the past few months for varied reasons, including bankruptcy reports with projections of $5 billion in losses within the next 12 months, the mass departure of high-profile officials from the firm including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and Chief scientist

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/nobel-prize-winner-claims-former-openai-chief-scientist-fired-sam-altman-because-he-is-much-less-concerned-with-ai-safety-than-profits-and-suggests-superintelligence-might-be-on-the-horizon-we-have-maybe-4-years-left-before-human-extinction

Big Tech’s experimental AI can’t beat old-school productivity gems

The “Chat” in ChatGPT’s name neatly encapsulates a major element of why OpenAI’s AI-infused assistant has had such epoch-shifting impact. We’ve been using PCs and phones to chat with humans for years—at least since the era of AOL Instant Messenger.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.fastcompany.com/91205083/chatgpt-canvas-notebooklm-bear-scrivener

I test ChatGPT features for a living, and this new one really did supercharge my productivity

OpenAI is constantly adding new features to ChatGPT to make it more functional for everyday needs and more essential in our workflows. The most recent of these updates is a new canvas feature -- unveiled last week -- that has left me beyond impressed. 

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-test-chatgpt-features-for-a-living-and-this-new-one-really-did-supercharge-my-productivity/