The Schools Without ChatGPT Plagiarism

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/the-schools-without-chatgpt-plagiarism/680407/

About the Dow Jones lawsuit

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/about-the-dow-jones-lawsuit

‘They wish this technology didn’t exist’: Perplexity responds to News Corp’s lawsuit

Perplexity shot back at media companies skeptical of AI’s benefits in a blog post Thursday responding to News Corp’s lawsuit filed against the startup earlier this week.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/they-wish-this-technology-didnt-exist-perplexity-responds-to-news-corps-lawsuit/

Anthropic’s AI can now run and write code

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond with what the company describes as “mathematically precise and reproducible answers.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/anthropics-ai-can-now-run-and-write-code/

Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC

In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research, answer emails, and handle other back-office jobs on their own.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/anthropics-new-ai-can-control-your-pc/

OpenAI scientist Noam Brown stuns TED AI Conference: ’20 seconds of thinking worth 100,000x more data’

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-noam-brown-stuns-ted-ai-conference-20-seconds-of-thinking-worth-100000x-more-data/

This Week in AI: The AI agents cometh

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ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/this-week-in-ai-the-ai-agents-cometh/

Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law

Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. Among other projects, he helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data the company used to build its online chatbot, ChatGPT.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/openai-copyright-law.html

Anthropic’s new AI model can control your PC

In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research, answer emails, and handle other back-office jobs on their own.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/anthropics-new-ai-can-control-your-pc/

Marc Andreessen says AI model makers are in ‘race to the bottom’ and it’s not good for business

Marc Andreessen, general partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, was on stage at the Ray Summit conference earlier this month, talking about AI. CFO.com has pulled out the best quotes so you don’t have to watch the full interview.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/marc-andreessen-says-ai-model-makers-are-in-a-race-to-the-bottom-and-its-not-god-for-business/

boingboing.net/2024/10/22/watch-claude-ai-take-control-of-a-computer-and-bu

ORIGINAL LINK: https://boingboing.net/2024/10/22/watch-claude-ai-take-control-of-a-computer-and-build-its-own-website-from-scratch.html

OpenAI Chatbot Passes Bias Tests, But Users Should Still be Watchful

The complex math-based systems that buzz away at the heart of modern AI systems require huge amounts of data to train them to be useful when users ask for help.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/openai-chatbot-passes-bias-tests-but-users-should-still-be-watchful/90991174

When you give a Claude a mouse

There seems to be near-universal belief in AI that agents are the next big thing. Of course, no one exactly agrees on what an agent is, but it usually involves the idea of an AI acting independently in the world to accomplish the goals of the user.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/when-you-give-a-claude-a-mouse

Germany’s New AI Travel Influencer Is A Chatbot Still Working Out Some Kinks

Meet Emma, Germany’s new tourism ambassador. She’s young. She’s beautiful. She’s a polyglot who speaks 20 languages, including English in a posh British accent. She’s on Instagram. And she really loves to travel around her homeland. What she isn’t is real.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2024/10/18/germanys-new-ai-travel-influencer-is-a-chatbot-still-working-out-some-kinks/