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Sora What

Hours after Google announced Gemini 1.5, OpenAI announced their new video generation model Sora. Its outputs look damn impressive.

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AI #51: Altman’s Ambition

[Editor’s note: I forgot to post this to WorldPress on Thursday. I’m posting it here now. Sorry about that.] Sam Altman is not playing around. He wants to build new chip factories in the decidedly unsafe and unfriendly UAE. He … Continue reading

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On the Proposed California SB 1047

California Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco introduces SB 1047 to regulate AI. I have put up a market on how likely it is to become law. “If Congress at some point is able to pass a strong pro-innovation, pro-safety … Continue reading

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One True Love

We have long been waiting for a version of this story, where someone hacks together the technology to use Generative AI to work the full stack of the dating apps on their behalf, ultimately finding their One True Love. Or … Continue reading

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AI #50: The Most Dangerous Thing

In a week with two podcasts I covered extensively, I was happy that there was little other news. That is, until right before press time, when Google rebranded Bard to Gemini, released an app for that, and offered a premium … Continue reading

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AI #49: Bioweapon Testing Begins

Two studies came out on the question of whether existing LLMs can help people figure out how to make bioweapons. RAND published a negative finding, showing no improvement. OpenAI found a small improvement, bigger for experts than students, from GPT-4. … Continue reading

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AI #48: The Talk of Davos

While I was in San Francisco, the big head honchos headed for Davos, where AI was the talk of the town. As well it should be, given what will be coming soon. It did not seem like anyone involved much … Continue reading

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AI #46: Meet the New Year

[NOTE: I forgot to post this to WP/LW/RSS on Thursday, so posting it now. Sorry about that.] Will be very different from the old year by the time we are done. This year, it seems like various continuations of the … Continue reading

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AI #45: To Be Determined

The first half of the week was filled with continued talk about the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI, which I covered in its own post. Then that talk seemed to mostly die down,, and things were relatively quiet. We … Continue reading

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Copyright Confrontation #1

Lawsuits and legal issues over copyright continued to get a lot of attention this week, so I’m gathering those topics into their own post. The ‘virtual #0’ post is the relevant section from last week’s roundup.

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