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Venture capital is having a bad time â and AI isnât going to fix it
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/21/venture-capital-is-having-a-bad-time-and-ai-isnt-going-to-fix-it/
Published: October 21, 2024 13:47
The AI bubble is substantially fueled by venture capitalists looking for a lottery ticket. Theyâve dragged along big tech companies who are looking for enterprise upsells. The big techs are also VC investors in AI. How long can this go on? Some suggestâŚ
Sam Altman rebrands Worldcoin to âWorldâ, still wants your eyeballs
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/20/sam-altman-rebrands-worldcoin-to-world-still-wants-your-eyeballs/
Published: October 20, 2024 19:57
You might think that, come the artificial general intelligence, humanity will enjoy a world of unlimited abundance and prosperity for all, beyond money, under the watchful sensors of the superintelligent AI. But Silicon Valley bros talking up theâŚ
OpenAI and Microsoft are having relationship issues
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/19/openai-and-microsoft-are-having-issues/
Published: October 19, 2024 16:52
OpenAI is a Microsoft subsidiary, one step removed to insulate Microsoft from reputational damage. Microsoft has rights to all OpenAI software and already offered to take over last year when CEO Sam Altman was temporarily deposed. Microsoft has bolted GPTâŚ
Dark mode now works on Pivot to AI!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/18/dark-mode-works-on-pivot-to-ai/
Published: October 18, 2024 22:14
Thanks to the estimable Stephen Farrugia (pictured above), Pivot to AI now has dark mode that works properly and is readable in both light and dark modes! The WP Dark Mode plugin tries to paywall additional CSS â a basic function of core WordPress â andâŚ
US National Archives will approximate history with a public-facing chatbot
Published: October 18, 2024 11:11
The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has the AI bug. Itâs planning to launch an official chatbot, Archie AI, based on Google Gemini. Archie will respond to the public in place of an actual human archivist. Archie will warn users thatâŚ
Google, Amazon buy nonexistent mini nuclear reactors for AI data centers
Published: October 17, 2024 11:49
Google has signed a deal with California startup Kairos Power for six or seven small modular reactors. The first is due in 2030 and the rest by 2035, for a total of 500 megawatts. [Google blog; press release] Amazon has also done three deals to fund SMRâŚ
Austinâs Ethos restaurant serves the finest gourmet AI slop â but donât try to make a reservation
Published: October 16, 2024 13:01
Ethos is a restaurant in Austin that doesnât exist. Itâs completely AI-generated. And yet it has 73,000 followers on Instagram. [Instagram] Most of the food shots are slightly off â a foot-shaped pizza, âthe worldâs largestâ buffalo wing, meatballs in anâŚ
Australian HSC English exam asks students to interpret an AI image
Published: October 15, 2024 11:54
Year 12 students in New South Wales are currently sitting their Higher School Certificate exams. Today, they got an English exam question asking them to compare a text to an AI-generated image! [Reddit; Bored Of Studies] The image â labeled in the exam asâŚ
AI really is the new bitcoin: Google and Facebook extend coal burning in Omaha
Published: October 14, 2024 11:54
North Omaha Station in Nebraska is a 1950s-era coal-fired power plant that belches out pollution. The station was to stop burning coal by 2023 â but Google and Facebook came to town with thirsty data centers! [Washington Post, archive] Omaha is a highlyâŚ
LLMs canât reason â they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data
Published: October 13, 2024 19:31
Researchers at Apple have come out with a new paper showing that large language models canât reason â theyâre just pattern-matching machines. [arXiv, PDF] This shouldnât be news to anyone here. We know how LLMs work â they guess the most likely next tokenâŚ