🔥 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