3 Good Links: how a pencil is made, the symbolism of smoking, & AI optimism
Read the famous “I, Pencil” story about how a pencil is created; watch a video exploring the symbolism of smoking; listen to a conversation about the positive impacts of AI.
3 Good Links: imaging the human brain, the “loneliness market”, & building worlds
Read a short story about the first simulated human brain; watch a video about the burgeoning loneliness market; listen to a conversation about computers, AI, and world building
After AI Drake songs, Nothing Was The Same
Record labels are cracking down on AI generated music.
AI memes are going mainstream
AI generated “by Balenciaga” videos are taking the internet by storm — so I made one myself. Here’s how.
Hitting the brakes on next-generation AI
What do Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang have in common?
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?
Sydney, Spotify, and Speedy
Isaac Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics can help us understand the limits of seemingly unpredictable AI.
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.
Microsoft: 1 — Google: 0
The AI games have begun. Round one: search. Microsoft is first to score.
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”
Google is in trouble
Bing is coming in hot with AI tech. Yeah, that Bing. Also: the Instagram cofounders dropped a new AI app.
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.
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.
The generative AI hype cycle
Things are moving incredibly fast for AI — and we’re just getting started.
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 Jodorowsky made ‘Tron’?
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.
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.