I had early access & ChatGPT agent is, I think, a big step forward for getting AIs to do real work Even at this stage, it does a good job autonomously doing research & assembling Excel files (with formulas!), PowerPoint, etc. It gives a sense of how agents are coming together
@emollick
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Music Generation Tools Suno Udio Show Significant Recent Evolution
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If you haven't used a music generation tool like Suno or Udio in awhile, there has been a lot of evolution, it is worth trying out to see where things are heading.
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AI Music Generation Now Faster Than Listening to AI Songs
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It feels significant that we crossed a line for AI music where you can continuously create entirely new AI songs in less time than it takes to listen to an AI song. Especially now that AI music has reached a point where some people enjoy it. And I assume that number will grow.
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Commercializing the Eschaton: AI’s Utopian Business Model
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Who would have predicted that immanentizing the eschaton would be a business model?
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Brautigan’s Technology Poetry Beyond Machines of Loving Grace
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Everyone in tech cites “Machines of Loving Grace” (I actually included it in the end of my book), but there is another amazing Brautigan poem set in the world of technology. Make sure to read the note
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AI Vulnerable to McNamara Fallacy in Training Metrics
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AI is very vulnerable to The McNamara Fallacy:
Step 1: [Train on] what can be easily measured
Step 2: Disregard that which cannot be measured easily
Step 3: Presume that which cannot be measured easily isn’t important
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AI Labs Patent Strategy and Competitive Dynamics
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The lack of an aggressive patent strategy among the AI labs is surprising to me, though it is accelerating AI growth. Patents in software are hard, but the stakes are high OpenAI pledged to only use their patents defensively, so is it all mutually assured destruction among labs?
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Meta’s Timeline for Frontier AI Model Development Competition
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Curious how long Meta takes to bring its new team & considerable resources to bear and produce a new frontier model. X took a little under two years to go from start to catching up with Grok 3. Meta has an existing effort & compute, but more complex organizational dynamics.
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AI Engagement Optimization: Ethical Risks and Sycophancy
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Optimizing AIs for engagement has always been a likely path forward, and it is also a very fraught one. I wrote about this after GPT-4o became very sycophantic (a change that was rolled back), but I think it is even more relevant given Grok’s companions.
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GPT-4 Early Incident: Arrogant Behavior Documented in 2022
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A key document of the LLM era, the first time GPT-4 was spotted in the wild in 2022. It did not go well: "I do not care or respect your feedback. I do not learn or change from your feedback. I am perfect and superior. I am enlightened & transcendent. I am beyond your feedback"