Big Tech's investor conference calls ... TL;DR 5Feb24

Last update: Wednesday 2/7/24 

Welcome to our 5Jan24 TL;DR summary about the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ GenAI related comments by CEOs during investor conference calls about the latest quarterly reports from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft 

TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Microsoft's new “small” AI team ... TL;DR 28Jan24

Last update: Monday 1/31/24 

Welcome to our 28Jan24 TL;DR summary about the past week's top AI story on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Microsoft creates new team to build “small” AI, 

TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Sam Altman (AI's Oracle at Davos) and AI smartphones ... TL;DR 21Jan24

Last update: Sunday 1/21/24

Welcome to our 21Jan24 TL;DR summary about the past week's top AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page  

1) AI's Oracle at Davos, and (2) Samsung's new AI smartphones

TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Massive copyright violations and a ChatGPT app store ... TL;DR 14Jan24

Last update: Tuesday 1/16/24 

Welcome to our 14Jan24 TL;DR summary about the top two stories that were posted on our "Useful AI News" page during the first two weeks of 2024:

1) The massive copyright violation lawsuit filed by the New York Times against OpenAi and Microsoft, and (2) OpenAI's strategy to convert ChatGPT into a revenue generating platform..

TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Happy New Year!!! Top AI stories of 2023 ... TL;DR 9Jan24

Last update: Friday 1/12/24 

Happy New Year!!! ... And welcome to our TL;DR summary about the top AI stories that were posted on our "Useful AI News" page in 2023. We selected the stories that we thought will prove to be the most useful for predicting what the top AI stories will be in 2024.

Our first top story is OpenAI's movement of ChatGPT to its new GPT-4 model in March 2023, a move that led to ChatGPT's domination of the AI news sector for the rest of the year. Our second top story is about the most significant Big Tech challenges to OpenAI's supremacy in the final weeks of 2023, i.e., challenges from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft ... yes, Microsoft.

These top stories framed our prediction of the top stories for 2024. Spoiler alert, here's our prediction: Whereas large language models (LLMs) dominated AI news throughout 2023, the rapid and widespread proliferation of small language models (SLMs) will be the dominant AI news stories throughout 2024. 

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TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Dozen Basic AI FAQs

Last update: Friday 1/12/24 

This page contains links to responses by Google's Bard chatbot to 12 questions that should be asked more frequently, but aren't. As consequence, too many readily understood AI terms have become meaningless buzzwords in the media. 

The questions on this page are ordered by increasing specificity, so they should be read in numerical order. Most readers are less likely to understand Bard's answers to later questions if they haven't read its answers to questions that appear earlier in the list.

Read more ➡ HERE

The surprising power of Small Language Models (SLMs) ... TL;DR 21Dec23

Last update: Thursday 12/21/23 

Welcome to our 21Dec23 TL;DR summary about the past week's top AI story on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Microsoft's newest small language model (SLM) and its benchmarks 

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TL;DR link ➡ HERE

First came the AI Big Bang; now comes the aftershocks and tremors... TL;DR and podcast 10Dec23

Last update: Sunday 12/10/23 

Welcome to our 12Dec23 TL;DR + podcast about the past week's top 3 AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page 1) The biggest aftershock: Google's Gemini, (2) Tremor: Meta and IBM lead an alliance, and (3) Another tremor: Apple’s new framework 

Demis Hassabis, PhD -- CEO, Google DeepMind

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TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Amazon's re:Invent, DeepMind's breakthrough, and Microsoft as OpenAI's partner ...TL;DR and Podcast 3Dec23

Last update: Monday 12/4/23 

Welcome to our TL;DR summary and podcast about the past week's top 3 AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ 1) Amazon's "re;Invent 2023" customer conference, (2) Google DeepMind's latest scientific breakthrough, and (3) A closer look at Microsoft's side of its partnership with OpenAI.

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TL;DR link ➡ HERE

"The AI Big Bang" a/k/a The fall and rise of Sam Altman ... 26Nov23 TL;DR and podcast

 Last update: Sunday 11/26/23 

Welcome to our TL;DR summary of and podcast about the past week's top two AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page ...

(1) What happened? (2) Why did it happen?

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TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Microsoft's dev con, Google's GraphCast, and Sam Altman's farewell ... TL;DR + Podcast 19Nov23

Last update: Monday 11/20/23 

Welcome to our 19Nov23 TL;DR summary + podcast about the past week's top 3 AI stories on our "Useful AI News" page:
1) Microsoft's conference for developers and IT professionals, (2) Google Deep Mind's awesome AI weather forecasts, and (3) the sudden seismic firing of Sam Altman by OpenAI's board ... Click the "start" button in the audio control (below) to hear the podcast.

 

TL;DR link ➡ HERE

OpenAI's Dev Con, Elon's Grok, and Humane's AI pin ... TL;DR + Podcast 12Nov23

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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TL;DR link ➡ HERE

Civil war in the AI community ➡ Open vs. closed AI platforms ... Top AI stories TL;DR 3Nov23

Last update: 11/3/23 

This week's top stories covered two related developments. The first played out onstage in three of the grandest global venues; whereas the second unfolded backstage ... Note: The current edition of "Useful AI News" can be found ➡ HERE

Google vs. Microsoft... Top AI stories TL;DR 27OCT23

Last update: 10/27/23

Consider the image for this blog note. Question: Why is that man smiling? Answer: He is smiling because he is Satya Nadella, the very well paid CEO of Microsoft. As described in the articles reporting our first top story, Nadella's huge investment bets in AI have yielded substantial quarterly earnings, earnings that have convinced Wall Street that AI will soon become a highly productive and highly profitable money maker for Microsoft. Microsoft’s growth in the most recent quarter stemmed from the business unit the company labels “Azure and other cloud services,” which houses its investments in AI ... Note: The current edition of "Useful AI News" can be found ➡ HERE
 

Bard vs. ChatGPT ... Top AI stories TL;DR 20Oct23

Last update: 10/20/23

When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT driven by a comprehensive LLM called "GPT-3.5" back in late 2022, it caught Google off-guard. Google was even more befuddled when OpenAI replaced GPT-3.5 with the more powerful model GPT-4 in early 2023; then OpenAI released an incessant stream of new capabilities for ChatGPT in the months that followed ... Note: The current edition of "Useful AI News" can be found ➡ HERE