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