Microsoft has extended its partnership with OpenAI, announcing an additional “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” investment in the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind the experimental online chatbot ChatGPT, @KYWeise and I report:
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Dutch Privacy Rules Become Status Symbol for U.S. Tech
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"For some U.S. tech companies, the Dutch imprimatur has now become a status symbol, a kind of seal of approval they can show regulators elsewhere": @natashanyt tells a story of David, Goliath, and online privacy:
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Tech Layoffs Generation Gap: Comparing Past and Present Downturns
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"It was a blood bath and it went on for years…As concerning as the current downturn is, and as much as I empathize with the people impacted, there’s no comparison” @trippmickle on the tech-layoff generation gap: https://
nytimes.com/2023/01/20/tec
hnology/tech-layoffs-millennials-gen-x.html
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Genius Makers: AI Leaders at Google and Facebook
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REALLY want to understand what's happening with chatbots, art generators, and the rise of artificial intelligence? Read my book, "Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A.I. to Google, Facebook, and the World":
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The End of the Turing Test: Understanding AI Chatbots and Art Generators
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Want to understand what's happening with chatbots, art generators, and the rise of artificial intelligence? Read my new feature on The End of the Turing Test:
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Google Founders Return Amid ChatGPT Competition Urgency
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"The re-engagement of Google’s founders, at the invitation of the company’s current chief executive, Sundar Pichai, emphasized the urgency felt among many Google executives about that chatbot, ChatGPT" @nicoagrant on the return of Page and Brin: https://
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ChatGPT transforms university classroom dynamics and student learning
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“What’s happening in class is no longer going to be, ‘Here are some questions — let’s talk about it between us human beings,’” he said, but instead “it’s like, ‘What also does this alien robot think?’” @KalleyHuang looks at university life after ChatGPT: https://
nytimes.com/2023/01/16/tec
hnology/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-universities.html
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GPT-4 capabilities and Microsoft’s AI strategy revealed
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Some VCs and Microsoft employees have already seen GPT-4. It could be text only, like ChatGPT. Or it could include images. OpenAI has not decided which to release, @KYWeise and I report in our piece on Microsoft's return to the center of the tech universe:
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Character AI Chatbots Driving Increased AI Training Investments
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"People will keep spending more and more money to train smarter and smarter systems. We are nowhere near the end of that trend.” Meet Character AI, a site where chat bots mimic everyone from Queen Elizabeth to Elon Musk:
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AI Generates Protein Blueprints Using Generative Art Techniques
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“What can machines do that humans can’t do at all?” Using the techniques that underpin A.I. art generators like DALL-E, scientists are generating blueprints for new proteins — tiny biological mechanisms that can change the way of our bodies behave: