OpenAI's For-Profit Pivot

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-s-for-profit-pivot-Mg7ldRffSXme1JG83ig7lQ

Two More OpenAI Leaders Departing — The Information

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/two-more-openai-leaders-departing?utm_campaign=%5BREBRAND%5D+%5BTI-AM%5D+Th&utm_content=1095&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio&utm_term=124

A tiny new open-source AI model performs as well as powerful big ones

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2), a research nonprofit, is releasing a family of open-source multimodal language models, called Molmo, that it says perform as well as top proprietary models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. 

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/25/1104465/a-tiny-new-open-source-ai-model-performs-as-well-as-powerful-big-ones/

OpenAI’s slow-motion train wreck

This is one of the most famous magazine covers of our time. So is this one.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-slow-motion-train-wreck

Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know

A fresh wave of anxiety about children and technology is cresting, with parents and pundits increasingly interrogating how kids use smartphones, social media, and screens. It hasn’t stopped teenagers from embracing generative AI.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.wired.com/story/teens-generative-ai-use-schools-parents/

AI Writing and the Illusion of Progress

When Open AI introduced Chapt GPT on November 22, they blew up the economy… In a good way. Nowadays, AI writing has become a norm. Back in Q4 of 2022, the world was in the grip of inflation. People warned of hyperinflation.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://dariusforoux.com/ai-writing-illusion/

How large language models can reshape collective intelligence

Collective intelligence underpins the success of groups, organizations, markets and societies. Through distributed cognition and coordination, collectives can achieve outcomes that exceed the capabilities of individualseven expertsresulting in improved accuracy and novel capabilities.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01959-9