Sydney, Spotify, and Speedy
Isaac Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics can help us understand the limits of seemingly unpredictable AI.
Indistinguishable from magic
Magic is a fun and pragmatic lens for understanding generative AI — cast a spell and conjure content.
GPT-4 is here. How does it compare to GPT-3.5?
How does OpenAI’s latest large language model compare to the previous version?
No one noticed for a week: Bing also made mistakes in their demo
We were so captivated by the new Bing chatbot that no one (until Dmitri Brereton) bothered to read the actual results.
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GPT-4 is here. How does it compare to GPT-3.5?
How does OpenAI’s latest large language model compare to the previous version?
No one noticed for a week: Bing also made mistakes in their demo
We were so captivated by the new Bing chatbot that no one (until Dmitri Brereton) bothered to read the actual results.
ChatGPT Plus is here
ChatGPT’s new $20 pro plan dropped this week — with a new Turbo mode.
It’s 2023 and I’m on the waitlist for Bing
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared a new race to win search has started.
Google announces Bard, their ChatGPT rival — and AI powered search results
Google says it’ll drop in “coming weeks”
ChatGPT doesn’t know about its updates
The Jan 30 version of ChatGPT told me it doesn’t know anything about its most recent update.
Eleven Labs raises $2 million to keep building its text-to-speech AI
They’re betting that AI generated voices are the future of audio.
CNET’s AI experiment isn’t going well
The tech news site stopped publishing AI generated articles after several inaccuracies.
Stability AI is being sued by Getty Images
Getty says Stable Diffusion “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright.”
People are using AI to imagine movies that were never made
What would happen if Alejandro Jodorosky made ‘Tron’?
What’s new in ChatGPT, Jan 9 Version
There’s finally an option to get the chatbot to stop talking.
OpenAI on track for massive $29 billion valuation
The company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E is looking to double their valuation in one year.
Say goodbye to robotic computer voices
The latest text-to-speech model from Eleven Labs can convincingly imitate emotions in speech — including laughter.
Are you smarter than a chatbot?
Joanna Stern took ChatGPT to AP English class for her latest WSJ column... and the AI passed.
Apparently ChatGPT is a political centrist now
David Rozado observes that ChatGPT’s responses to the Political Spectrum Test have become “exquisitely neutral.”
Ghost in the (virtual) machine
A Google engineer thinks that the company’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient.
ChatGPT reaches 1 million users in only five days
That was fast.
OpenAI releases ChatGPT
One giant leap for conversational AI.
Reviews
The Instagram co-founders made a reading app powered by AI
A review of my first few days with Artifact, the new AI driven news feed app from Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Spoiler: I like it.
An AI generated these portraits of me
The photo editor app Lensa dropped an AI selfie generator, and the results are truly impressive. But there’s a dark side.
Commentary
Sydney, Spotify, and Speedy
Isaac Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics can help us understand the limits of seemingly unpredictable AI.
The generative AI hype cycle
Things are moving incredibly fast for AI — and we’re just getting started.
Indistinguishable from magic
Magic is a fun and pragmatic lens for understanding generative AI — cast a spell and conjure content.
10 AI news sources you’ll actually learn from
Ten of the best AI newsletters, YouTube channels, and Twitter accounts as of January 2023.
OpenAI invested $100mm in these four startups. Why?
What Descript, Harvey, Mem, and Speak each mean for OpenAI’s vision of the future of AI.