Last update: 11/13/23
Welcome to our TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page: 1) Open AI's first-ever developers conference, (2) "Grok" (Elon Musk's sardonic chatbot), and (3) Humane's new AI pin.
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This blog's editor had three reactions to the top three stories this week ➡ shrug ... shrug ... WOW!!!.
He shrugged off the first two stories because they were predictable and did not change the course of recent developments; but the AI pin is a head turner that might radically change the way that many of us interact physically with the all-encompassing Internet.
1. First, let's consider the biggest announcements at OpenAI's Dev Con:
a) A new LLM called "GPT-4 Turbo" that is more powerful than GPT-4 ... Of course. OpenAI has to protect its claim to having the most powerful LLM on the market.
b) A GPT store for apps, just like Apple's App Store. Like Apple, OpenAI intends to make lots of money by charging substantial fees for helping professional developers sell their apps through its store if they meet OpenAI's standards. (OpenAI has standards???)
c) A new service called "GPTs" that allows individuals and small businesses to become amateur developers of customized versions of ChatGPT that they can instantly share with friends and associates. One has to assume that amateur versions of ChatGPT will also hallucinate, display bias against women and minority groups, violate other people's copyrights, be easily hacked to produce misinformation, etc, etc, etc. (If they don't, they won't meet OpenAI's standards.)
2. Moving on to Elon Musk's "Grok", it's a new chatbot that Elon proudly announced has an uncensured potty mouth. Of course.
3. Now for the "WOW!!!"
Humane has developed an "AI pin" (that looks like and is worn like a badge) with funding from Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and other wealthy Silicon Valley patrons. It might replace smart phones as our primary user interface with the Internet. Instead, the AI pin uses the palms of our hands with a little help from our fingertips.
Please, please, please watch the demo videos embedded in the New York Times article so that you can see what we're talking about ➡ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/technology/silicon-valleys-big-bold-sci-fi-bet-on-the-device-that-comes-after-the-smartphone.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Top stories in past week ...
- OpenAI/Microsoft
OpenAI's First-ever Developer Day Conference (Nov 6, San Francisco, CA) ***
-- Overview: "Biggest Moments From OpenAI's Dev Day", Maxwell Zeff, Gizmodo, 11/6/23 ... Overview also provided by ZDNet
-- GPT-4 Turbo: "GPT-4 Turbo is OpenAI’s most powerful large language model yet", Pranav Dixit, Engadget, 11/6/23 ... GPT-4 Turbo also covered by VentureBeat, TechCrunch
-- App store: "App Store for AI: OpenAI’s GPT Store lets you build (and monetize) your own GPT", Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch, 11/6/23
-- Build your own Chatbot: "OpenAI Lets Mom-and-Pop Shops Customize ChatGPT", Cade Metz, NY Times, 11/9/23 ... BYO chatbots also covered by ZDNet, HardFork podcast, - OtherNews
"Elon Musk Announces Grok, a ‘Rebellious’ AI With Few Guardrails", Will Knight, Wired, 11/6/23 ***
-- This story also covered by ZDNet, Mashable, CNBC, FastCompany - OtherNews
"Silicon Valley’s Big, Bold Sci-Fi Bet on the Device That Comes After the Smartphone", Erin Griffith, Tripp Mickle and Photographs and Videos by Kelsey McClellan, NY Times, 11/10/23 *** ... Funded by Microsoft, OpenAI, SalesForce and others
-- This story also covered by ZDNet, TechCrunch, Wired, Forbes Tech, The Verge
-- The videos in the Times' article provide the best descriptions of this extraordinary device
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