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Google’s GameNGen AI Doom video game generator: dissecting a rigged demo
Published: September 7, 2024 12:57
Did you know you can play Doom on a diffusion model now? It’s true, Google just announced it! Just don’t read the paper too closely. In their paper “Diffusion models are real-time game engines,” Google researchers try to make out that they’ve run the…
Oprah does AI: The hype engine resorts to celebrity promo
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/06/oprah-does-ai-the-hype-engine-resorts-to-celebrity-promo/
Published: September 6, 2024 17:41
The AI bubble is all set to deflate and OpenAI still desperately needs those billions. Time to pull out the celebrities! They worked so well for crypto and NFTs, after all. Oprah Winfrey’s one-hour special, “AI and the Future of Us,” airs on September 12.…
Got them AI spammin’ blues: flooding Spotify with fake streams of fake songs
Published: September 5, 2024 18:31
Streaming pays musicians a fraction of a penny per stream, so Michael Smith, 52, of North Carolina got bots to stream his tracks! One track streamed a billion times would raise eyebrows — but a billion fake streams across tens of thousands of tracks might…
Don’t use AI to summarize documents — it’s worse than humans in every way
Published: September 4, 2024 07:10
The main use case for LLMs is writing text nobody wanted to read. The other use case is summarizing text nobody wanted to read. Except they don’t do that either. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission investigated LLM text summaries. ASIC’s…
The return of Jacob Wohl! Yeah, he’s into AI now
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/03/the-return-of-jacob-wohl-yeah-hes-into-ai-now/
Published: September 3, 2024 09:00
Jacob Wohl has long been famed for his entrepreneurial genius. He started as a 17-year-old hedge fund hotshot who managed to get banned from futures trading by the age of 20. Wohl then started Surefire Intelligence, a private investigations business, whose…
NaNoWriMo gets AI sponsor, says not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’
Published: September 2, 2024 10:43
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) started in 1999 to get writers to spend their November writing a 50,000-word novel. The idea is that quality doesn’t matter — you get into the rhythm of writing words and you finish a thing. The initiative is also a…
Nvidia Q2 2024 earnings: the market is still on crack
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/01/nvidia-q2-2024-earnings-the-market-is-still-on-crack/
Published: September 1, 2024 15:18
AI shovelmaker Nvidia’s earnings for Q2 2024 beat analyst expectations! But they didn’t beat them by enough, apparently — so the stock went down! [Bloomberg, archive] This sort of thing is why Nvidia tends to just get on with making and selling useful…
Amazon to replace Alexa with Anthropic’s Claude AI — and charge for it
Published: August 31, 2024 20:09
Amazon is releasing a new backend for its Alexa home assistant in October, to be called “Remarkable!” This will run on Anthropic’s Claude LLM chatbot. The new Alexa service will only cost you $5 to $10 a month — and not the present price of $0. [Reuters,…
80% of corporate AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT projects
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/30/80-of-ai-projects-fail-twice-the-rate-of-other-it-projects/
Published: August 30, 2024 20:27
Companies are doing lots of shiny new information technology projects based on this year’s hottest new tech, Artificial Intelligence! And 80% of these fail — double the failure rate of other IT projects. In their paper “The Root Causes of Failure for…
Scale AI is stiffing its task workers
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/08/29/scale-ai-is-stiffing-its-task-workers/
Published: August 29, 2024 19:29
AI training runs on a global army of unregulated workers who transform raw data into LLM fodder. Scale AI is one of the largest companies managing this army via its subsidiary Remotasks, which pays workers per task — usually less than a dollar an hour.…