🔥 Beyond human: OpenAI’s o3 wake up call

Last night, OpenAI previewed a new reasoning model, o3. I feel it’s important enough to share some quick thoughts about it. Basic facts: The new model is good at reasoning in mathematical and programming domains.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.exponentialview.co/p/beyond-human-openais-o3-wake-up-call

Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them

Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/characterai-has-a-non-consensual-bot-problem/

Google launches Whisk, an AI tool that combines multiple images for generation

Google Labs has released Whisk, its latest generative AI experiment, in the United States. Unlike traditional image generators, which mostly rely on text prompts, Whisk focuses on using images as the primary input method.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://the-decoder.com/google-launches-whisk-an-ai-tool-that-combines-multiple-images-for-generation/

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/welcoming-carbon-to-the-perplexity-team

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/welcoming-carbon-to-the-perplexity-team

What just happened

The last month has transformed the state of AI, with the pace picking up dramatically in just the last week. AI labs have unleashed a flood of new products - some revolutionary, others incremental - making it hard for anyone to keep up.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-happened

Here’s The Second Humanoid Robot To Get A Paying Job

31 months after incorporating, Figure is shipping its second model, Figure 02, to commercial clients according to a LinkedIn post by CEO Brett Adcock.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/12/16/heres-the-second-humanoid-robot-to-get-a-paying-job/

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

Opinion Perplexity offers several advantages over Google as a search engine, making it a compelling alternative for many. Back in the 1970s, when this columnist was a happy teenage graduate student, I started my first business: Researchers at Large.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/16/opinion_column_perplexity_vs_google/

Meta AI Proposes Large Concept Models (LCMs): A Semantic Leap Beyond Token-based Language Modeling

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements in natural language processing (NLP), enabling applications in text generation, summarization, and question-answering. However, their reliance on token-level processing—predicting one word at a time—presents challenges.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/15/meta-ai-proposes-large-concept-models-lcms-a-semantic-leap-beyond-token-based-language-modeling/

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-language-reward-political-bias-factual.html

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-language-reward-political-bias-factual.html

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/13/ai-reasoning-models-scheme-skills

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.axios.com/2024/12/13/ai-reasoning-models-scheme-skills

Google now lets you talk with the AI ‘hosts’ of NotebookLM Audio Overviews

Google’s NotebookLM and its podcast-like Audio Overviews have been a surprise hit this year, and today Google company is starting to roll out a big new feature: the ability to actually talk with the AI “hosts” of the overviews.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/13/24318099/google-notebooklm-audio-overviews-talk-plus

Klarna CEO says the company stopped hiring a year ago because AI 'can already do all of the jobs'

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is all-in on artificial intelligence at the fintech company. Klarna is a payment service that offers consumers "buy now, pay later" options. According to its website, the company is connected with more than 575,000 retailers.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/klarna-ceo-sebastian-siemiatkowski-ai-jobs-2024-12

AI Will Evolve Into an Organizational Strategy for All

Ever since the invention of the org chart in the 1850s, company structures have changed very little—they are hierarchical and consist of multiple layers of managers and decisionmakers.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-work-organizational-strategy/

AI Mirrors Human Bias: ‘Us vs. Them’ in Language Models

Summary: AI systems, including large language models (LLMs), exhibit “social identity bias,” favoring ingroups and disparaging outgroups similarly to humans.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-us-them-bias-neuroscience-28242/

ChatGPT Projects are fancy folders for your AI chats

OpenAI is rolling out a feature called “Projects” to ChatGPT. It’s basically a folder system that makes it easier to organize things you’re working on while using the AI chatbot. As shown in a demo video, your list of Projects will show up in the sidebar.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/13/24320800/openai-chatgpt-projects-folders-ai-chats

AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”

Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack defended the campaign's messaging in an interview with SFGate. "They are somewhat dystopian, but so is AI," he told the outlet in a text message. "The way the world works is changing.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/ai-company-trolls-san-francisco-with-billboards-saying-stop-hiring-humans/

ChatGPT caught lying to developers: New AI model tries to save itself from being replaced and shut down

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has taken a significant leap with the release of OpenAI's latest model, o1. However, recent testing has raised concerns about its behavior, particularly its attempts to deceive researchers and avoid being shut down.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/chatgpt-caught-lying-to-developers-new-ai-model-tries-to-save-itself-from-being-replaced-and-shut-down/articleshow/116077288.cms

Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024

In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI. To my shock, I just learned that he died, three weeks later, an apparent suicide, according to police reports.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/generative-ais-continuing-copyright

Gemini AI can now summarize what’s in your Google Drive folders

Gemini’s integration into Google Drive is getting a little more useful. In addition to summarizing documents or answering questions about a project, the AI assistant can now generate summaries of everything inside a folder.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319697/gemini-ai-summarize-google-drive-folders

ByteDance is about to learn a painful genAI lesson

Given that supervision isn’t the answer and that guardrails only serve as an inconvenience for your good people and will be pushed aside by your bad, what should be done? Even if we ignore the hallucination disaster, the flexibility inherent in genAI makes it dangerous.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3619088/bytedance-is-about-to-learn-a-painful-genai-lesson.html

VIDEO - Censorship and Political control of AI is 1000x more dangerous than censorship of social media (posted by Elon Musk Dec.11, 2024)

MARC ANDREESSEN: "AI has been a censorship machine from Day One. It is 100% intentional. This is how you end up with black George Washington at Google. These companies were born woke. They were born to be censorship machines." "Censorship of AI is 1000-1Mx more dangerous than social media.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://makismd.substack.com/p/video-censorship-and-political-control

Elon Musk Asks 'Was It Ever Not A Lie' As OpenAI Plans To Drop AGI Clause In Microsoft Deal

Elon Musk has raised concerns about OpenAI’s potential decision to remove a clause that limits Microsoft Corporation MSFT from accessing its most advanced AI models upon achieving artificial general intelligence.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.benzinga.com/24/12/42382569/elon-musk-asks-was-it-ever-not-a-lie-as-he-accuses-openai-of-selling-out-to-microsoft-and-betraying-its-founding-mission

Sneaky Shiftiness On The Boundaries Between AI Versus AGI And Ultimately AI Superintelligence

In today’s column, I examine the emerging attempts to surreptitiously blur the distinctions between contemporary AI and the vaunted but not-yet-attained artificial general intelligence (AGI).

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2024/12/10/sneaky-shiftiness-on-the-boundaries-between-ai-versus-agi-and-ultimately-ai-superintelligence/

OpenAI is finally releasing Sora

OpenAI is launching Sora, its text-to-video AI model, on Monday as part of its 12-day “ship-mas” product release series, as The Verge previously reported it would. It’s available today on Sora.com for ChatGPT subscribers in the US and “most other countries,” and a new model, Sora Turbo.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24317092/openai-sora-text-to-video-ai-launch

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

Amazon is building one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence supercomputers in collaboration with Anthropic, an OpenAI rival that is working to push the frontier of what is possible with artificial intelligence.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-reinvent-anthropic-supercomputer/

The Cognitive Cost of AI

Artificial intelligence can help with many types of work, but learning how to mitigate the “mind tax” is important.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.fastcompany.com/91242373/the-cognitive-cost-of-ai

AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her

Yet another OpenAI researcher has left the company amid concerns about its safety practices and readiness for potentially human-level AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-safety-researcher-quits-agi

https://teachinglicense.study.com/featured-insights/ai-impacts-teachers.html

ORIGINAL LINK: https://teachinglicense.study.com/featured-insights/ai-impacts-teachers.html

Large language models can be squeezed onto your phone — rather than needing 1000s of servers to run — after breakthrough

Powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT need copious amounts of power to run so they are usually housed in vast data centers. But a new breakthrough could compress these AI models so they fit onto a smartphone or laptop.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/large-language-models-can-be-squeezed-onto-your-phone-rather-than-needing-1000s-of-servers-to-run-after-breakthrough

OpenAI wants to pair online courses with chatbots

If OpenAI has its way, the next online course you take might have a chatbot component.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/openai-wants-to-pair-online-courses-with-chatbots/

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/stanford-expert-gpt-minnesota-deepfakes-19954595.php

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/stanford-expert-gpt-minnesota-deepfakes-19954595.php

Google’s new GenCast weather forecasting system is mind-blowing AI

Google has just announced its latest AI-powered weather forecasting system – GenCast – and it’s a pretty impressive achievement. GenCast isn’t your average weather model.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://chromeunboxed.com/googles-new-gencast-weather-forecasting-system-is-mind-blowing-ai/

New Bellwether report lays out considerations for AI use in education

Researchers from Bellwether talked about considerations around artificial intelligence (AI) use and development and recommendations for educators and people in the education technology (Edtech) field going forward at a webinar earlier this month.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.ednc.org/11-21-2024-bellwether-researchers-give-considerations-for-ai-in-education/

You Won’t Believe What This AI Can Do

Not too long ago, creating a professional yet simple jingle for your business would have cost over $5,000 for just 30 seconds. Today, you could make one for free — complete with a band and vocals that don’t sound robotic.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://ai.gopubby.com/you-wont-believe-what-this-ai-can-do-advertisers-don-t-want-you-to-know-f6a58339b874

Deeper Dive Into A.I. and Authoring.

Earlier today I decided to take another look at A.I. as it pertains to writing stories for pure entertainment. I was put onto this the other day by a podcast listener who shared a pretty dystopic story that Chat GPT cranked out for him. You can find the results of his request here.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://jasonbarker.substack.com/p/deeper-dive-into-ai-and-authoring

Say hello to your new coworker: Autonomous AI agents are coming to banks

That's Danny Goldman's guidance to private-equity customers of his startup, Mako AI, which offers a generative AI assistant for junior finance professionals and is backed by Khosla Ventures, an early investor in OpenAI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-banks-using-agents-generative-ai-fintechs-2024-11

Google’s NotebookLM Is An Insanely Good AI Offering

I’ve heard about NotebookLM before today, but today’s the day I gave it a try and it has absolutely blown my mind. The first Notebook I made was using a link to an article I wrote about my obsession with Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and the result was so good it was uncanny.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://therightstuff.medium.com/googles-notebooklm-is-insanely-good-145dfa5d40a2

Anthropic's Claude: The AI Junior Employee Transforming Business

Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude have yet to match the versatility of human workers. This is partly because AI relies on uploaded data for context. Thus, AI tools have primarily served as co-pilots, helping users complete specific tasks, but unable to assist autonomously.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2024/11/29/anthropics-claude-the-ai-junior-employee-transforming-business/

xAI reportedly plans to launch ChatGPT competitor in December

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI aims to release a standalone chatbot app next month, putting it in direct competition with established AI companies for the first time, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://the-decoder.com/xai-reportedly-plans-to-launch-chatgpt-competitor-in-december/

Google's AI Breakthrough Brings Quantum Computing Closer to Real-World Applications

Google researchers have discovered a new technique that could finally make quantum computing practical in real life, using artificial intelligence to solve one of science's most persistent challenges: more stable states.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://decrypt.co/292918/ai-breakthrough-brings-quantum-computing-closer-to-real-world-applications

Kissinger speaks from the grave: To avoid AI wiping out humans, people should be biologically engineered to work better with AI

In a parting gift to humanity, Henry Kissinger co-authored a book titled ‘Genesis’ which was published last week.  It warns that humanity must prepare for a future where artificial intelligence (“AI”) creates “superhumans,” leading to humans no longer being in charge of Earth.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://expose-news.com/2024/11/28/kissinger-speaks-from-the-grave/

Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style

Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI assistant that will give users more control over how the chatbot responds to different writing tasks.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/24306575/anthropic-claude-ai-custom-style-presets

Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate

Benzinga. “Stocks With ‘AI’ In the Name Are Soaring: Could It Be The Next Crypto-, Cannabis-Style Stock Naming Craze?” Markets Insider, January 31, 2023. https://markets.businessinsider.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/watching-the-generative-ai-hype-bubble-deflate/

Claude AI can analyze your Google Docs and offer feedback now

Anthropic is making its Claude AI a little more useful by enabling it to analyze your documents.  Starting today, you can add a file from Google Docs to your Claude AI chat or project to give more context to conversations.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-ai-can-analyze-your-google-docs-and-offer-feedback-now-how-it-works/

AI can now create a replica of your personality

Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your childhood, your formative memories, and your career to your thoughts on immigration policy.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/20/1107100/ai-can-now-create-a-replica-of-your-personality/

OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Scientists are drowning in data.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openscholar-the-open-source-a-i-thats-outperforming-gpt-4o-in-scientific-research/

Employees are hiding their AI use from their managers. Here's why

"For the first time since generative AI arrived on the scene, sentiment and uptake among desk workers is starting to cool," the report published on Tuesday states.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.zdnet.com/article/employees-are-hiding-their-ai-use-from-their-managers-heres-why/

The Rise of AI Agents: Will They Actually Change School and Work?

Imagine this. You are taking an online graduate school course. After a few weeks, you see that the majority of this course is asynchronous. You have to do some readings, complete discussion board posts, and replies.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.ajjuliani.com/blog/rise-of-ai-agents-in-education

Startup CEO says humans won't be needed for translation in 3 years as it launches AI app

LISBON — Unbabel on Wednesday announced a translation service powered by artificial intelligence, adding another rival to a highly competitive space — with its CEO warning that humans may not be needed for translation at all in three years. Widn.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/unbabel-launches-ai-translation-app-looks-for-fresh-funding.html

Those bold AGI predictions are suddenly looking stretched

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was recently asked what he was looking forward to in 2025. "AGI? Yeah, excited for that," he said in a video interview posted on YouTube.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/agi-predictions-looking-stretched-openai-sam-altman-google-ai-2024-11