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/

Google’s NotebookLM gets even better podcast-like Audio Overviews

Remember that experimental AI-driven podcast feature in NotebookLM we talked about not too long ago? Well, Google is seeing a lot of buzz around this particular tool and they’ve updated NotebookLM in a few very interesting ways.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://chromeunboxed.com/googles-notebooklm-gets-even-better-podcast-like-audio-overviews/